Category: Distinguished Lecture

Onur Mutlu, ETH Zurich – Abstract: The memory system is a fundamental performance and energy bottleneck in almost all computing systems. Recent system design, application, and technology trends that require more capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and predictability out of the memory system make it an even…

Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics – Abstract: I am mostly interested in algorithms for difficult combinatorial and geometric problems: What is the fastest tour from A to B? How to optimally assign jobs to machines? How can a robot move from one location to another…

Prof. Don Norman, University of California – Abstract: At the new Design Lab at UC San Diego, Design is a way of thinking, understanding people real, fundamental needs, and designing systems that fulfill those needs in an understandable, enjoyable manner. Does it matter? Yes. Medical…

Prof. Dennis Shasha, Courant Institute of New York University – Abstract: Imagine you are a data scientist (as many of us are/have become). Systems you build typically require many data sources and many packages (machine learning/data mining, data management, and visualization) to run. Your working…

Prof. Carla Gomes, Cornell University – Abstract: Computational sustainability is a new interdisciplinary research field with the overarching goal of developing computational models, methods, and tools to help manage the balance between environmental, economic, and societal needs for a sustainable future. I will provide an…

Prof. Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University – Abstract: In this talk we present the changing objectives of the electric energy systems as complex dynamical systems. We briefly provide the basic landscape in the industry first. We take a broader look at the objectives of deploying…

Prof. Pedro Domingos, University of Washington – Abstract: There are five main schools of thought in machine learning, and each has its own master algorithm – a general-purpose learner that can in principle be applied to any domain. The symbolists have inverse deduction, the connectionists…

Prof. Srini Devadas, MIT – Abstract: (Work done with Xiangyao Yu) A new memory coherence protocol, Tardis, is presented. Tardis uses timestamp counters representing logical as opposed to physical time to order memory operations and enforce sequential consistency in any type of shared memory system….

Prof. Mike Hinchey, Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre University of Limerick, Ireland – Abstract: Increasingly software can be considered to be critical, due to the business or other functionality which it supports. Upgrades or changes to such software are expensive and risky, primarily…

Prof. Frank McSherry, ETH Zurich – Abstract: The Naiad project at Microsoft Research introduced a new model of dataflow computation, timely dataflow, which was designed to support low-latency computation in data-parallel dataflow graphs containing structured cycles. This model substantially enlarged the space of data-parallel computations…