Computer Systems Colloquium (Spring 2009)

Andreas Terzis from John Hopkins University discusses three data gathering applications and both challenges and solutions of network architecture in low-power wireless sensing environments. (June 3, 2009)

John Sosoka from Vita Robotica discusses the the research, development, and results of designing Pleo, a dinosaur robot that emulates lifelike emotions and reactions. (May 27, 2009)

Bob Metcalfe finds numerous similarities between the history of the development of the internet and the current development of energy, and that we can learn from the advances and surprises of the Internet. (May 20, 2009)

Tamas Nemeth of Chevron discusses maximum performance computing by describing a cylindrical programming model that gives more attention to memory and lower power with non aggressive frequency use and acceleration based speedup. (May 13, 2009)

Volker Strumpen discusses his proposal for a self-organizing cache architecture, the spiral cache, to offer scalable performance for large cache capacities and high clock frequencies into physical limits with theoretical guarantees. (May 6, 2009)

Eric Weinstein argues that the financial system is intertwined with all of the other systems in crisis. (April 29, 2009)

Cell phones and the web might breath life into this old form of travel, but can it overcome the cult of the car? A lot of people are trying to make it work, but many have failed in the past. (April 22, 2009)

Chris Grier discusses the design of the Gazelle web browser, one of two he developed while at Microsoft Research. Grier focuses on the security issues uncovered in the development of Gazelle and how the browser handles them. (April 15, 2009)

With the success of the iPhone app store and Salesforce.com, almost every major software and mobile phone company is trying to create its own software platform. (April 8, 2009)

Trevor Blackwell, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup Anybots, discusses how human motor skills work from a robotics point of view and how Anybots is applying lessons from human learning of physical skills to building robots. (April 1, 2009)