Today, Robert O’Callahan stopped by MIT as part of his US Tour. He works for Novell is one of the “super reviewers” at the Mozilla Foundation. If you use FireFox (like 63% of my visitors this week), you probably run code he’s touched. He also wrote TTSSH, an SSH client that I linked to from my homepage for [...]
Though I wasn’t really paying attention, it looks like the annual Usenix Technical Conference is well underway just down the street. If you happen to be in town and want to meet up, send me an e-mail.
Virtualization and large distributed systems continue to be hot topics. Larry Peterson gave the keynote about PlanetLab, the ever popular, sometimes frustrating, Internet-wide [...]
Finally, closing out my NSDI 2006 summaries: sessions from the last day. I hope you’ve found these useful; maybe they’ll inspire some interesting NSDI 2007 submissions. Get started today!
Wireless and Sensor Networks
Ming Li had the unenviable position of giving the first talk on the last day; much like my post lunch talk on the first day, people drifted in [...]
Following up my summaries of the morning sessions, this post reviews the second half of the second day of NSDI 2006. (This post was updated to correct bogus timestamp and add links to papers in the first session.)
Measurement and Analysis
Haifeng Yu began the afternoon session with his award paper on the availability of multi-object operations (PDF). The main concern is [...]
In his interview with Jim Gray, Werner Vogels talks about how Amazon.com structures and builds its internal systems. While many others have noted his comments on web technologies and development methods, I am more interested in a few points he raised at the end about building and testing distributed systems and what those of us in academic systems research can [...]
The second day of NSDI was the longest day, with 4 technical sessions where the last one was an extra long 2 hour session. This post summarizes the first two sessions.
Wide Area Network Services
Mike Freedman, author of the popular Coral content distribution service, opened the day by talking about OASIS. OASIS is designed to answer the following [...]
As part of the Technology and Policy Program’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Alan Davidson gave a talk today titled “Internet Regulation and Design” from the point of view of Google, where he works as the Washington Policy Counsel (aka Chief Lobbyist). Google currently has a small (three person) office in DC, representing their interests.
The first part of Davidson’s talk was [...]
This week was the Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, sponsored by Usenix and held this year in San Jose. As with any conference, there were many opportunities for networking and meeting other researchers: I met and caught-up with students (mostly) from from CMU, Cornell, NYU, UCSB, UCLA, UMass Amherst, UT Austin as well as old MIT colleagues [...]
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