Selected Talks

• Applying PL and Database Techniques to Networking. [PDF]
  • DIMACS Workshop on Designing Networks for Manageability, Rutgers University, Nov 2009.

• DS^2: Declarative Secure Distributed Systems
  • University of Waterloo Database Seminar, Jun 2009.

• MOSAIC: Unified Declarative Platform for Dynamic Overlay Composition. [PDF]
  • 4th Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), Madrid, Spain, Dec 2008.
    Note: Several slides in this 20-minute talk were derived from Yun Mao's MOSAIC job talk.

• Declarative DSL: A Declarative Networking Perspective. [PDF]
  • 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Panel on Declarative Domain Specific Languages, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.

• Boon Thau Loo Speaks Out. (Interview) [PDF]
  • Courtesy of Marianne Winslett and ACM SIGMOD Record (Sept 2007 edition).

• The Design and Implementation of Declarative Networks. [PPT]
  • AT&T Labs Research, New Jersey, Jul 2007.
  • National University of Singapore, Jun 2007.
  • ACM SIGMOD dissertation award presentation, Beijing, China, Jun 2007.
  • BBN Technologies, Boston, Apr 2007.

• Towards a Declarative Language and System for Secure Networking. [PPT]
  • 3rd International Workshop on Networking meets Databases (NetDB), Cambridge, MA, Apr 2007.

• Declarative Networking: Language, Execution and Optimization. [PPT]
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, June 2006.

• Declarative Networking: Extensible Networks with Declarative Queries. [PPT]
  • UC Santa Cruz Database Seminar, June 2006.
  • Academic Job talk, [Yale University, California Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, IBM Almaden, Cornell University, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Duke University, University of Texas-Austin, ETH Zurich, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of California at Los Angeles], Feb-Apr 2006

• Implementing Declarative Overlays. [PPT]
  • 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Brighton, UK, Oct 2005.

• Declarative Routing: Extensible Routing with Declarative Queries. [PPT]
• ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Data Communication, Philadelphia, Aug 2005.
• Customizable Routing with Declarative Queries. [PPT]
  • 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (ACM SIGCOMM HotNets-III), San Diego, Nov 2004.

• Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor. [PPT]
  • Wisconsin Database Seminar, Oct 2004.
  • 30th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, Sept 2004

• The Case for a Hybrid P2P Search Infrastructure. [PPT]
  • 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), San Diego, Feb 2004.