Talk

As the number of people and applications on the internet grows exponentially, so do the complexities of serving vast amounts of information.

JavaScript has been shunned by the academic community because of its many obvious shortcomings. But it includes the best features of Scheme and Self, making it a language deserving of study and research. It was the first lambda language to go mainstream.

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) arise in random matrix theory and quantum physics as models of random variables with negative correlations.

Complex networks are ubiquitous in many domains. Examples include spatial, technological, informational, social, and biological networks.

With a cryptographic root-of-trust for Internet routing (RPKI) on the horizon, we can finally start planning the deployment of one of the secure interdomain routing protocols proposed over a decade ago (Secure BGP, secure origin BGP).

It is notoriously difficult to make distributed systems reliable. This becomes even harder in the case of the widely-deployed systems that become heterogeneous and federated. The set of routers in charge of the inter-domain routing in the Internet is a prime example of such a system.

Many distributed services would benefit from control over the flow of traffic to and from their users, to offer better performance and higher reliability at a reasonable cost.

Moderator: Ed Felten, Director, Center for Information Technology and Professor, Computer Science and Public Affairs Panelists: Bruce Campbell '90, President, Corporate Development and Digital Media, Discovery Communications Abe Crystal '00, Co-Founder, MoreBetter Labs Bradford Lyman '05, Manager,

Parallel accelerators like FPGAs and GPUs have been shown to provide huge performance and energy efficiency advantages on a wide range of applications, from video coding to scientific simulation to wireless communication.

Extensive use of multi-threaded applications that run on SMP machines justifies modifications in thread scheduling algorithms to consider threads' characteristics in order to improve performance. Current schedulers (e.g. in Linux, AIX) avoid migrating tasks between CPUs unless absolutely necessary.