[Nets-seminars] seminar encouragement

[Anthony Finkelstein]

Strong encouragement to attend this seminar by this distinguished speaker that has resonance across software engineering and nets


On 10 Oct 2010, at 21:23, Bruno Wassermann wrote:

> 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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Anthony Finkelstein
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