SDI/LCS Seminar Abstract Archive - Spring 1999

January 14

Title: Indexing and Data Mining in Traditional and Multimedia Databases.
Speaker: Chirstos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University

January 21

Title: Cheating the I/O Bottleneck: Network Storage with Trapeze/Myrinet
Speaker: Jeff Chase, Duke University

February 11

Title: Multicasting and Anycasting: Two Techniques for Providing A Scalable Web Service
Speaker: Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech

February 18

Title: PowerScope: A Tool for Profiling the Energy Usage of Mobile Applications
Speaker: Jason Flinn, Carnegie Mellon University

February 22

Title: A Feedback-driven Proportion Allocator for Real-Rate Scheduling
Speaker: David Steere, Oregon Graduate Institute

February 25

Title: Active Disks: Programming Model, Algorithms and Evaluation
Speaker: Mustafa Uysal, University of Maryland

March 3 - Combined Seminar with the ECE LCS Seminar

Title: Architecting for earthquakes: fault tolerant storage
Speaker: Elizabeth Borowsky, Storage System Program, HP Labs

March 4

Title: The QoS-based Resource Allocation Model
Speaker: Ragunathan Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University

March 5

Title: An analytic behavior model for disk drives with readahead caches and request reordering
Speaker: Arif Merchant, Storage System Program, HP Labs

March 11

Title: Cooperative Prefetching: Compiler and Hardware Support for Effective Instruction Prefetching in Modern Processors
Speaker: Chi-Keung Luk, Carnegie Mellon and Univ. of Toronto

March 18

Title: Bimodal Multicast
Speaker: Ken Birman, Cornell

April 1

Title: Windowed Key Revocation in Public Key Infrastructures
Speaker: Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan

April 7

Title: Highly Available Distributed Storage Systems
Speaker: Lihao Xu, California Institute of Technology

April 9

Title: COSMOS: Co-Operative State Machine for Object Synchronization
Speaker: Norman Cohen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

April 22

Title: Cache Management in Scalable Network Servers
Speaker: Vivek Pai, Rice University

April 23

Title: Reading Consistent and Current Data "Off the Air"
Speaker: Krithi Ramamritham, IIT, Mumbai and U. Massachussetts, Amherst

April 29

Title: Cooperative Caching in Local-Area and Wide-Area Networks
Speaker: Geoffrey M. Voelker, University of Washington

May 20

Title: Designing Systems for Next-Generation I/O Devices
Speaker: Mitchell Tsai, UCLA

June 3

Title: Operation-based Update Propagation in a Mobile File System
Speaker: Yui-wah Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Implementing Lottery Scheduling: Matching the Specializations in Traditional Schedulers
Speaker: David Petrou, CMU

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