CE Club – Alex Shraer (Yahoo! Research) – Wednesday, 16/5/12

Alex Shraer Yahoo! Research   Wednesday, 16/5/12, 11:30 CS, Taub 337   Dynamic Reconfiguration of Primary/Backup Clusters     Abstract Dynamically changing (reconfiguring) the membership of a replicated distributed system while preserving data consistency and system availability is a challenging problem. In this talk I will discuss this problem in the context of Primary/Backup clusters [...]

TCE Conference 2012 – Networking, Cloud and Beyond – June 6-7, 2012

 

SAVE THE DATE – 1st TCE Summer School on Cyber Security – September 2-6, 2012

SAVE THE DATE

1st TCE Summer School on Cyber Security September 2-6, 2012   Main Speakers: Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) Hovav Shacham (UCSD)   [...]

CE Club – Vijay K. Bhargava (University of British Columbia and President, IEEE Communications Society) – Wednesday 18/4/12

Wednesday, 18/4/12, 11:30, CS, Taub 337   Green Cellular Networks: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges Vijay K. Bhargava University of British Columbia and President, IEEE Communications Society   Abstract In this talk, we present techniques to enable green communications in future generation of wireless systems that will rely on cooperation and cognition to [...]

TCE Series – “Building reliable distributed and social systems: Some selected anecdotes” – Prof. Anwitaman Datta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) – May 14, 16, 20

  TCE Series on "Building reliable distributed and social systems: Some selected anecdotes" Prof. Anwitaman Datta Nanyang Technological University, Singapore     

Monday, May 14, 12:30-14:30 (Room 539, Taub Bld.) Self-repairing codes for networked distributed storage systems

Global data storage need keeps on increasing, requiring efficient and reliable storage solutions which have to scale several orders [...]

Mini-Course – “On Algebraic Lattice Codes” – Prof. Frédérique Oggier (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) – May 14-16, 20-22

  TCE Mini-Course on Algebraic Lattice Codes Prof. Frédérique Oggier Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   Monday, May 14 & Tuesday, May 15, 10:30-12:30 (Room 539, Taub bld.) Lectures I and II: introduce number fields, lattices, and how lattices can be built from a number field. The coding application is the design of modulation schemes for [...]

TCE Lecture – Tom Leighton (Akamai Co-founder and Chief Scientist, MIT Prof. of Applied Math) – Tuesday 27/3/12

Tuesday, March 27 at 11:00 Butler Auditorium, Mosad Neeman Building Technion, Haifa   Title:  Consistent Hashing, Danny Lewin, and the Creation of Akamai   Speaker: Tom Leighton, MIT Prof of Applied Math, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Akamai Technologies   Abstract:   In 1996, twelve years after making Aliyah to Israel, Danny Lewin graduated from [...]

Talk – Rick Eads, Agilent Technologies – Monday, 19/3/12

Monday, 19/03/2012 at 15:30 Room 861 Electrical Eng. Building Technion City

Rick Eads Agilent Technologies Member of PCI-SIG board of directors   PCI Express: Technology, Road Map and Design Challenges   PCI Express is an industry standard, and the most prominent interconnection architecture for I/O devices and other boards inside a computer. It [...]

TCE Lecture – Prof. Theo Ungerer (CS, University of Augsberg, Germany) – Tuesday 13.3.12

Obstacles and Chances for Multi-core Deployment in Hard Real-time Systems Prof. Theo Ungerer Department of Computer Science, University of Augsburg, Germany   Tuesday, 13.3.2012 at 14:30 in room 861 Electrical Engineering Building, Technion   Abstract

Providing higher performance than state-of-the-art embedded processors can deliver today will increase safety, comfort, number and quality of services, while [...]

Matrix Learning: A Tale of Two Norms – Nati Srebro – Wednesday 29.2.12

Speaker: Nati Srebro Affiliation: Toyota Technological Institute and University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, 29.2.2012, 14:30 Place: Room 337-8 Taub Bld   Abstract: There has been much interest in recent years in various ways of constraining the complexity of matrices based on factorizations into a product of two simpler matrices.  Such measures of matrix complexity can [...]