Fall '99 Systems Chat

Discussion in AVW 3258 each Wednesday at 3pm.

Goal

The goal of Systems Chat is to foster the exchange of ideas and feedback among members of the UMD systems group. We meet each Wednesday at 3pm to discuss our current research, new conference papers, interesting research issues, and provide feedback on upcoming conference talks. Interested students are invited to attend. Please notify the current organizer (tseng@cs.umd.edu) to be added to the mailing list.

Faculty

Fall'99 Schedule

(9/1) VLDB Practice Talk - Sudarshan Chawathe
- Comparing hierarchical data in external memory
  
  by Sudarshan Chawathe (postscript, citation)
(9/8) Semantics of Multithreaded Java - Bill Pugh
(9/22) Networking, Multicast - Bobby Bhattacharjee
- IP multicast channels: EXPRESS support for large-scale single-source applications
  by H. Holbrook and D. Cheriton (postscript, pdf)
  Scaling of multicast trees: comments on the Chuang-Sirbu scaling law
  by G. Phillips, S. Shenker, and H. Tangmunarunkit (postscript, pdf)
  Presenters: Cheng-Fu Chou, Joe Dunnick
(10/6) Security in Distributed Systems - Pete Keleher
- Antigone: A Flexible Framework for Secure Group Communication
  (postscript, pdf)
  Secure Group Communications Using Key Graphs
  (postscript, pdf)
  Presenters: Aram Khalili, Bill Shapiro
(10/13) Network Multicast - Pete Keleher
- The evolution of Multicast : From the MBone to Inter-Domain Multicast to Internet2 Deployment
  by Kevin C. Almeroth (html, postscript, pdf)
  The MASC/BGMP Architecture for Inter-domain Multicast Routing
  by S Kumar et al. (postscript, pdf)
  Presenter: Suman Banerjee
(10/21) BlueTooth - Pravin Bhagwat
- Bluetooth: Technology Overview
- Bluetooth: The Missing Link in Mobile E-Commerce?
(10/27) Race Detection - Pete Keleher
- Eraser: A Dynamic Data Race Detector for Multi-Threaded Programs
  S Savage et al. (postscript, pdf)
  What Are Race Conditions? Some Issues and Formalizations
  R Netzer and B Miller (postscript, pdf)
  Presenter: Jeremy Manson
(11/3) Work in Progress - Chau-Wen Tseng
- SIGMETRICS submission - Bujor Silaghi & Keleher (postscript, pdf)
- PLDI submission - Gabe Rivera & Tseng (postscript, pdf)
- PLDI submission - Hwansoo Han & Tseng (postscript, pdf)
- ICS submission - Dejan Perkovic & Keleher (postscript, pdf)
- Work in progress - Bryan Buck & Hollingsworth (postscript, pdf)
- Work in progress - Heonsang Eom & Hollingsworth (postscript, pdf)
- Work in progress - Mustafa Tikir & Hollingsworth (postscript, pdf)
(11/10) Multicast Networks - Dan Rubenstein
- The Impact of Multicast Layering on Network Fairness
  by D Rubenstein et al. (postscript, pdf)
(11/17) Synchronization in Java
- Thin Locks: Featherweight Synchronization for Java
  D. Bacon, R. Konuru, C. Murthy, and M. Serrano
  ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,
  ACM SIGPLAN Notices volume 33 number 6, June 1998 (Montreal, Canada).
  An Efficient Meta-lock for Implementing Ubiquitous Synchronization,
  Ole Agesen, David Detlefs, Alex Garthwaite, Ross Knippel, Y.S. Ramakrishna, Derek White.
  OOPSLA 1999.
(12/1) Flat Scalability: Fact or Fiction? - Scott Corson
- 3pm in AVW 3258 (abstract)
(12/2) ACM Talk: The Downsides of Computing - Peter Neumann
- 5pm in CLB 0111 (abstract)
(12/8) Searching The Web: It's Worse Than You Thought! - Lee Giles
- 4pm in CLB 0111 (abstract)
- Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search
  by S Lawrence and L Giles (postscript, pdf)
  Searching the World Wide Web
  by S Lawrence and L Giles (postscript, pdf)

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