[PRL] Talk on MS Singularity project at Harvard 12/8

[Mitchell Wand]

On 1:22 PM Carol Harlow wrote:

> Colloquium
>
> An Overview of the Singularity Project
>
> Galen C. Hunt
> Microsoft Research
>
> Thursday, December 8, 2005
> 4:00PM
> Maxwell Dworkin G125
> (Ice Cream at 3:30PM - Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area)
>   Abstract
> Singularity is a research project in Microsoft Research that started 
> with the question: what would a software platform look like if it was 
> designed from scratch with the primary goal of dependability? 
> Singularity is working to answer this question by building on advances 
> in programming languages and tools to develop a new system 
> architecture and operating system (named Singularity), with the aim of 
> producing a more robust and dependable software platform. Singularity 
> demonstrates the practicality of new technologies and architectural 
> decisions, which should lead to the construction of more robust and 
> dependable systems.