Application Driven Systems Research

Speaker:        Dr. Lin GU
                Department of Computer Science and Engineering
                Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Title:          "Application Driven Systems Research"

Date:           Monday, 24 March 2014

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

Systems research is generally an exploration of scientific principles and
technological methods for building computing systems. It thus covers a
wide range of areas including computer architecture, OS, programming
languages, networks and database systems. Conducting systems research
requires that we not only get hands dirty but also get the mind clear.
Important results in systems research are often inspired by new
applications or new situations in certain application domains, and enable
such application domains to grow. On the other hand, failure to find
applications for a technology often leads to the technology's obsoletion.

In this talk, I will review the development of several successful and
not-so-successful technologies. Then I will introduce our recent work
called VOLUME, which unifies the memories on many computers to be one
large memory space with a rich set of functions. Finally, I will discuss
several issues in writing systems papers and distributing software and
other research results


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Biography:

Lin Gu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
He received B.S. from Fudan University, M.S. from Peking University, and
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. His research
interest includes cloud computing, very-large-scale data systems,
operating systems, and wireless sensor networks. His research has led to
the development of several innovative systems, including Virtk (a.k.a.
t-kernel), the Extended VigilNet, CCMR, and Layer Zero, and attracted
funding from leading industrial firms including Huawei Technologies and
Microsoft. He participated in organizational and referee services in more
than fifty academic conferences and journals.