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CS Distinguished Lecture: Frans Kaashoek (MIT) - The Multicore Evolution and Operating Systems
Thu, Dec 04, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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Speaker: Frans Kaashoek, MIT
Talk Title: The Multicore Evolution and Operating Systems
Series: CS Distinguished Lectures
Abstract: Multicore chips with hundreds of cores will likely be available soon. Although many applications have significant inherent parallelism (e.g., mail servers), their scalability on many cores can be limited by the underlying operating system. We have built or modified several kernels (Corey, Linux, and sv6) to explore OS designs that scale with increasing number of cores. This talk will summarize our experiences by introducing the commutativity rule, a
design method for developing perfectly scalable software.
Joint work with: S. Boyd-Wickizer, A. Clements, Y. Mao, A. Pesterev, R. Morris, and N. Zeldovich
This lecture will be available to stream HERE starting promptly at 3:30 PM.
Biography: Frans Kaashoek is the Charles Piper Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since January 1993. Before joining MIT, he was a student at the department of Computer Science (afdeling Informatica) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He received a Ph.D degree ('92) from the Vrije Universiteit for his thesis Group communication in distributed computer systems, under the guidance of Andy Tanenbaum.
In 1998 Frans cofounded Sightpath Inc, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2000. He also helped found Mazu Networks Inc and served on its board until Riverbed Technology Inc acquired Mazu in 2009.
Host: Wyatt Lloyd
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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CS Colloquium: Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Tue, Dec 09, 2014 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
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Speaker: Robert Kleinberg, Cornell University
Talk Title: Multi-Armed Bandits and the Web
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: For more than fifty years, the multi-armed bandit problem has been the predominant theoretical model for investigating how to make the most efficient use of limited experimentation resources for optimization. In the past decade, the emergence of the Web as a platform for automated experimentation at a massive scale has inspired a variety of new opportunities and challenges in this area. I will survey some new algorithms that have been developed to address these challenges. Inspired by applications to e-commerce, crowdsourcing, Web search, and advertising, the algorithms touch on broader issues in experimental design: how to design nearly optimal experimentation policies in the presence of supply limits, how to make the best use of feedback in the form of relative preference judgments, and how to mitigate the misalignment of incentives between agents who perform experiments and a principal who benefits from observing the resulting outcomes.
Biography: Robert Kleinberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research studies the design and analysis of algorithms, and their applications to electronic commerce, networking, information retrieval, and other areas. Prior to receiving his doctorate from MIT in 2005, Kleinberg spent three years at Akamai Technologies, where he assisted in designing the world's largest Internet Content Delivery Network. He is the recipient of a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and an NSF CAREER Award.
Host: David Kempe
Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
