DATE: Thursday, March 4, 2010
TIME: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
PLACE: Gates Center 8102
SPEAKER: Joseph Hellerstein, Google
TITLE: Engineering Autonomic Systems
ABSTRACT:
The wide-spread interest in self-management reflects the disturbing
fact that scaling information systems is often impaired by the burdens
of management and operations. These concerns have motivated the
development of technologies for self-healing, self-configuration,
self-optimization, and self-protection. Regrettably, it is rare for these
technologies to be deployed in production because of their hidden
costs. For example, model-based approaches for configuration and
optimization are powerful in laboratory demonstrations, but these
approaches typically have high costs for model construction and
maintenance. This talk discusses the need for a methodology for
engineering autonomic systems that systematically addresses
requirements, design, implementation, and assessment. The approach
discussed in this talk is based on control theory, an approach that is
widely used in other engineering disciplines to blend formal
mathematics with practical insights to build robust systems.
BIO:
Joseph L Hellerstein (jlh@google.com) is
at Google, Inc. where he manages the Performance Analytics Department that develops scalable resource
management algorithms and tools for performance prediction and
analysis. From 2006 to 2008, he was a Principal Architect at Microsoft
Developer Division where he developed scheduling optimizations
for .NET. From 1984 through 2006, he was a Senior Manager at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, where he
founded the Adaptive Systems Department that contributed control
technologies to IBM products. Dr. Hellerstein received his
undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and
his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
California at Los Angeles. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed
papers and two books, and has taught at Columbia University and the
University of Washington. Dr. Hellerstein is a Fellow of the IEEE and
received the IEEE/IFIP Stokesberry Award for outstanding contributions
to the network management community.
Web pages: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephlhellerstein
http://sites.google.com/site/josephlhellerstein/
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