Tag Archives: academia

Werner Vogels on Systems Research

17 May 2006 – 10:58 am

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 [...]

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Grad School Television

2 May 2006 – 8:02 am

What’s on prime time television these days? Looking at the dramas, offhand there are crime dramas (Law and Order, CSI), medical dramas (House, Grey’s Anatomy), mystery thrillers (24, Alias), family stories (Gilmore Girls, 7th Heaven), and people having sex (The OC, One Tree Hill). Maybe there’s something missing.

How about a drama about the lives of graduate students and professors? [...]

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