Brokering Peace Talks in the Networking and Storage Arms Race with Dr. Anirudh Badam
Episode 15, March 7, 2018 – Dr. Badam discusses the historic trade-offs between volatile and non-volatile memory, shares how software-defined batteries are changing the power-supply landscape, talks about how his research is aiming for the…
007: Democratically Finding the Cause of Packet Drops
Network failures continue to plague datacenter operators as their symptoms may not have direct correlation with where or why they occur. We introduce 007, a lightweight, always-on diagnosis application that can find problematic links and…
The Four Big Bets (Illustrated via a Journey in Program Synthesis)
Sumit Gulwani will talk about the four bets that he made in the second half of his research career, which yielded greater personal satisfaction. He will illustrate this in the context of his research agenda…
RAVEN: Reducing Power Consumption of Mobile Games without Compromising User Experience
In the last decade, mobile gaming has grown into a huge industry. According to Newzoo, the global mobile games market will reach $46.1 billion in 2017, a 19.4% increase from the year before. Players can…