CIS Systems Seminar
Fall 2007

Fridays, 12:45 PM, Levine 307

Schedule of Topics

September 14	Kickoff Session
September 21	Should Computer Scientists Experiment More?
September 28	Cache Replacement Paper Experimental Comparison (paper1, paper2)
October 5	Proof-Carrying Code (PL)	Karl Mazurak and Brian Aydemir
October 12	Self-Tuning Database Systems (DB)	Nick Taylor, Greg Karvounarakis, TJ Green
October 19	Speculative Lock Elision (Architecture)	Arun Raghavan, Colin Blundell
October 26	**No Seminar -- Faculty Retreat**
November 2	CPU and FPGA Trends in Sustainable Floating-Point... (Reconfigurable Architectures)	Nachiket Kapre and Michael DeLorimier
November 9	XORs In The Air: Practical Wireless Network Coding (Networking)	Yun
November 16	Resource Partitioning Among Real-Time Applications (Real-time Systems)	Madhukar, Arvind
November 23	--Thanksgiving--
November 30	The Design of the Borealis Stream Processing Engine (DB)	Mengmeng, Svilen
TBD	Cyber-Physical Systems	Insup

Paper discussions will start at 1:00PM.

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