[Colloq] REMINDER: Hiring Talk - Justin Cappos, University of Washington

[Rachel Kalweit]

The College of Computer and Information Science Presents:

A Hiring Talk by:
Justin Cappos
University of Washington

Date: February 8, 2011
Time: 11:00am
Location: 366 West Village H

Talk Title: "Seattle: A Peer-to-Peer Platform for Safe Code Execution"


Abstract:

Two of the most significant computing trends of the past five
years are peer-to-peer computing and cloud computing.
Peer-to-peer systems are powerful in part because they harness
under-utilized resources available on end user machines.
However, peer-to-peer systems suffer from heterogeneity and a
high rate of churn.   In contrast, cloud computing allows
computation to scale to meet demand via homogeneous virtual
environments.   However, these resources are often located
far from users, are costly, and are restricted by the cloud
provider's policies.

The vision of the Seattle project is to provide an infrastructure
that gives the best of both worlds.   We want to make it practical
for arbitrary Internet users to securely participate in a peer-to-peer
cloud environment.   Seattle has been deployed for two years and
has wide spread practical use as a testbed for researchers and
educators.   The Seattle testbed has been used by 16 classes
and is currently supporting the research of dozens of researchers
worldwide.

The first part of this talk will give an overview and demo of the
Seattle testbed.   The second part of the talk will present detailed
information about the security architecture for Seattle's sandbox.
The security lessons from our sandbox are applicable to similar
technologies such as Java.

Bio:

After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2008,
Justin Cappos joined the University of Washington as a Post Doc.
Justin's research interests generally fall broadly in the area of
systems security.   He focuses on understanding high-impact,
large-scale problems by building and measuring deployed systems.
His dissertation work was on Stork, a secure and efficient package
manager that has been in use for the past 6 years.   Improvements
pioneered in Stork have been adopted by most major Linux
package managers including APT, YUM, and YaST.


Host: Alan Mislove