[Colloquium] Fwd: Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer, Frans Kaashoek, MIT

[David MacQueen]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Imelda Baker <ifbaker at cs.uic.edu>
> Date: November 23, 2004 9:27:10 AM CST
> To: faculty at cs.uic.edu, adjunct at cs.uic.edu, coe-faculty at uic.edu, 
> ipbatra at uic.edu, geraney at uic.edu, prasad at uic.edu, jbona at uic.edu, 
> macqueen at cs.uchicago.edu, kao at cs.northwestern.edu, reingold at iit.edu, 
> epp at cs.depaul.edu, wlhonig at cs.luc.edu
> Cc: nelson at cs.uic.edu, ajay Kshemkalyani <ajayk at cs.uic.edu>
> Subject: Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer, Frans Kaashoek, MIT
>
> Dear All,
>
>  Please see below a seminar announcement on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 
> at 11 a.m in Room 636 SEO.  All are welcome to attend.
>
> The University of Illinois at Chicago
> Department of Computer Science
> 2004-2005 Distinguished Lecturer Seminar Series
>
> PEER-TO-PEER COMPUTING RESEARCH: A FAD?
>                  
>  M. Frans Kaashoek
>  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
> Tuesday, November 30, 2004
>  11:00 a.m., Room 636 SEO
> Abstract:
>                       
>  Traditionally distributed systems are architected as central servers 
> serving many clients.  Recently a number of Internet applications 
> (such as Naptster, Gnutella, and Freenet) have demonstrated the 
> benefits of a peer-to-peer architecture, in which clients 
> cooperatively provide a service, without relying on central servers.  
> This talk will argue that peer-to-peer systems are also a good 
> architecture for building mission-critical distributed services, 
> because they don't have single points of failure.
>
>  More specifically, this talk will propose peer-to-peer systems based 
> on distributed hash tables (DHTs). DHTs can be made robust in the face 
> of failures, attacks and unexpectedly high loads.  They are 
> scalable,achieving large system sizes without incurring undue 
> overhead.  They are self-configuring, automatically incorporating new 
> nodes without manual intervention or oversight.  They simplify 
> distributed programming by providing a clean and flexible interface.  
> And, finally, they provide a shared infrastructure simultaneously 
> usable by many applications.  We sketch an implementation of a DHT 
> based on the Chord distributed lookup system.
>
>
> Bio:
> M. Frans Kaashoek is a full professor in MIT's EECS department and a 
> member of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 
> where he coleads the parallel and distributed operating systems group 
> http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/). He received a PhD (1992) from the Vrije 
> Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for his work on group 
> communication in the Amoeba distributed operating system, under the 
> supervision of A.S. Tanenbaum. Frans's principal field of interest is 
> designing and building computer systems. His past work includes the 
> exokernel operating system, the Click modular router, the RON overlay, 
> the self-certifying file system, and the Chord lookup algorithm. His 
> current focus is the IRIS project, infrastructure for resilient 
> Internet systems, which is funded by NSF through a large ITR. In 1998 
> Frans cofounded Sightpath Inc, which was acquired by Cisco Systems. He 
> also serves on the board of Mazu Networks Inc. Frans is the recipient 
> of several awards, including the inaugural ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser 
> award for demonstrating creativity and innovation in operating systems 
> research.
>
> Host:  Associate Professor Ajay Kshemkalyani
>
>
> ib:11/08/04
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Imelda Baker
>  Department of Computer Science
>  University of Illinois at Chicago
>  851 South Morgan Street-MC 152
>  Chicago, IL  60607-7053
>  (312) 413-2911
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  Imelda Baker
>  Department of Computer Science
>  University of Illinois at Chicago
>  851 South Morgan Street-MC 152
>  Chicago, IL  60607-7053
>  (312) 413-2911
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 5828 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.cs.uchicago.edu/pipermail/colloquium/attachments/20041123/00ecce9b/attachment.bin