Lunch available at 11:45 a.m.
Meeting begins at noon
Lunch available at 11:45 a.m.
Meeting begins at noon
Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller
Abstract: The tech backlash is in full force, and it's rapidly becoming conventional wisdom that social media is polarizing our politics, abusing our attention, misinforming our democracy and damaging our emotional...
Modern video players employ complex algorithms to adapt the bitrate of the video that is shown to the user. Bitrate adaptation requires a tradeoff between reducing the probability that the video freezes (rebuffers) and...
Although distributed consensus has been studied by for three decades, they were not deployed at a large scale until decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. In this talk, I will explain why the classical theoretical...
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Detecting concurrency bugs can be challenging due to the intricacies associated with their manifestation. These intricacies correspond to identifying themethods that need to be invoked concurrently, the...
Advisor: Erik Learned-Miller
The Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Digital Equity Walk is an interactive 45-90-minute activity featuring visual presentations of data which highlight where access to computer science coursework is...
Content delivery networks (CDNs) deploy hundreds of thousands of servers around the world to cache and serve trillions of user requests every day for a diverse set of content such as web pages, videos, software downloads...