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March 12, 2004 |
| Title: |
First Lecture: "To Err is Human:Computational Limits to Human Thinking and the Implications for the Design of Human Centered Interfaces"
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Raj Reddy on the occassion of R&D Showcase 2004
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| Date: |
11th January, 2005 |
| Title: |
2nd Lecture : Computer Systems Research: Past and Future
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| Speaker: |
Dr. Butler Lampson
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
and
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at MIT
Dr. Butler Lampson is an Architect at Microsoft Corporation and an Adjunct
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT. He was
on the faculty at Berkeley, at the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox
PARC, and at Digital'~Ys Systems Research Center. He has worked on
computer architecture, local area networks, raster printers, page
description languages, operating systems, remote procedure call, programming
languages and their semantics, programming in the large, fault-tolerant
computing, transaction processing, computer security, and WHSIWYG editors. He
was one of the designers of the SDS 940 time-sharing system, the Alto personal
distributed computing system, the Xerox 9700 laser printer, two-phase commit
protocols, the Autonet LAN, and several programming languages. He holds a
number of patents on networks, security, raster printing, and transaction
processing.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He received the ACM's Software Systems Award in 1984 for his work on
the Alto, the IEEE Computer Pioneer award in 1996, and the Turing Award in
1992.
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| Abstract: |
People have been inventing new ideas in computer systems for nearly four
decades, usually driven by Moore's law. Many of them have been
spectacularly successful: virtual memory, packet networks, objects,
relational databases, and graphical user interfaces are a few examples.
Other promising ideas have not worked out: capabilities, formal methods,
distributed computing, and persistent objects. And the fate of some is
still in doubt: parallel computing, RISC, and software reuse. The most
important invention of the last decade, the World Wide Web, was not made
by computer systems researchers. In the light of all this experience, I
will talk about the topics that I think will be exciting to work on in
the next few years.
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| Time/Venue: |
Seminar Hall, IIIT Main Building
Live Video Telecast : Room No. 104 and 210
3:30 PM
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