[Pl-seminar] Reminder: Seminar TOMORROW: Christopher Meiklejohn, Declarative, Convergent Edge Computation

[Daniel Patterson]

Reminder that this is tomorrow!

On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Patterson <dbp at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> NUPRL Seminar presents
>
> Christopher Meiklejohn
> Université Catholique de Louvain
>
> 12:00pm-1:30pm
> Thursday, Oct. 27 2016
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
> Host: Heather Miller
>
> Declarative, Convergent Edge Computation
>
> Abstract:
>
> Consistency is hard and coordination is expensive. As we move into the
> world of connected 'Internet of Things' style applications, or large-scale
> mobile applications, devices have less power, periods of limited
> connectivity, and operate over unreliable asynchronous networks. This poses
> a problem with shared state: how do we handle concurrent operations over
> shared state, while clients are offline, and ensure that values converge to
> a desirable result without making the system unavailable?
>
> We look at a new programming model, called Lasp. This programming model
> combines distributed convergent data structures with a dataflow execution
> model designed for distribution over large-scale applications. This model
> supports arbitrary placement of processing node: this enables the user to
> author applications that can be distributed across data centers and pushed
> to the edge.
>
> Bio:
>
> Christopher Meiklejohn loves distributed systems and programming
> languages. Previously, Christopher worked at Basho Technologies, Inc. on
> the distributed key-value store, Riak. Christopher develops a programming
> model for distributed computation, called Lasp. Christopher is currently a
> Ph.D. student at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.
>
>
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