[Nets-seminars] SSE Seminar Reminder Mon, 11 Oct, 2-3pm, Cruciform B.01, Pamela Zave

[Bruno Wassermann]

Dear all, 

A reminder of Monday's seminar by Pamela Zave in Cruciform. Please make the effort and attend, if you can. 

-- Bruno

Pamela Zave
When: Monday, 11 October, 2 - 3 pm
Where: Cruciform B.01 (grid B-2 in http://www.ucl.ac.uk/locations/ucl-maps/map2_hi_res)
Title: On the Architecture of Application Sessions

Abstract:
In the current state of the Internet, it is much too difficult to build,
deploy, and maintain distributed applications.  The goal of this work is
to understand how applications could be supported better, by developing
principles for hierarchies of overlays that span the range from common
application functions to universal connectivity.  The principles must
provide simplicity and separation of concerns as well as security,
reliability, and good resource management.

This talk focuses on the subject of two-way point-to-point application
sessions with capabilities such as physical mobility, multihoming,
anycast, and anonymity or aliasing.  It discusses how they should be
specified as communication services.  It also discusses their possible
implementation architectures within the framework of a particular 
definition of overlays, comparing them in terms of scalability,
generality, and faithfulness to the specification.

Bio:
Pamela Zave received an A.B. degree in English from Cornell University,
and a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
She has held positions at the University of Maryland and Bell Labs, and is
now with AT&T Laboratories--Research.
Dr. Zave is interested in all aspects of formal methods for software
engineering as applied to networks.  For the past ten years she has led
a group of researchers building and analyzing IP-based voice and
multimedia services using the Distributed Feature Composition
architecture, invented by her and Michael A. Jackson.
Dr. Zave is an ACM Fellow and an AT&T Fellow. She has won three 
Ten-Year Most Influential Paper awards, three Best Paper awards, the 
AT&T Strategic Patent Award, and the AT&T Science and Technology Medal.  
She is currently chair of IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming 
Methodology.
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