January Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for January across a number of our chapters:

Bangalore 1/2: Shor’s Algorithm Part

Bangalore 1/9: Shor’s Algorithm Part

Bucharest 1/11: January Meetup

Vienna 1/14: Lisp

Seattle 1/14: : The Dataflow Model and Millwheel: Fault tolerant stream processing

Bangalore 1/17: Meet Dr. Shriram Krishnamurthi

Saint Louis 1/18: Magnetic Levitation & Guidance

Madrid 1/20: Path, Trees and Flowers

London 1/20: Tom Crayford on ‘An History and Evaluation of System R’

Montréal 1/20: Better Bitmap Performance with Roaring Bitmaps

Winnipeg 1/20: Communication in the Presence of Noise

San Francisco 1/21: Henry Robinson on “No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency..”

Seattle 1/27: .: Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions

Marina del Rey 1/27: Bill Berry on No Silver Bullet

New York 1/28: Ramsey Nasser on PushPull++

The Papers: Christopher Meiklejohn's A Brief History of Chain Replication

Meetup Spotlight: http://bit.ly/1QelqoU

On December 10, 2015, Christopher Meikljohn is presenting at Papers We Love - San Francisco on the topic (and history) of Chain Replication, a data replication technique that “promises a high throughput, linearizable, robust replication technique with minimal overhead to tolerate failures with only f+1 nodes[0].”

December Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for December across a number of our chapters:

Vienna 12/1: Out of the Tar Pit (part )

Madrid 12/2: Diff and Blame: an intuitive overview

Seattle 12/10: : A Critique of the CAP Theorem

San Francisco 12/10: Nathan Taylor on OS scalability & Chris Meiklejohn on Chain Replication

Bangalore 12/12: Let’s Shazaam with Arpit Mohan

Bucharest 12/15: December Meetup

November Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for November across a number of our chapters:

Toronto 11/4: Raveesh Nagpal on An Error Model for Pointing Based on Fitts’ Law

Vienna 11/5: Out of the Tar Pit (part )

Bangalore 11/7: A Geocoding Algorithm Based On A Comparative Study with Shravanthi

Seattle 11/12: : Survivable Key Compromise in Software Update Systems

Saint Louis 11/16: Differential Expression Analysis: Finding Genes that Matter

London 11/18: Camilla MontonenSupport Vector Machines and Kernels for Computational Biology.

New York 11/19: Tom Santero on Leslie Lamport’s Buridan’s Principle

San Francisco 11/19: Gareth Morgan on The Rendering Equation

Munich 11/24: Probabilistic Programming

Montréal 11/25: “A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods”

Winnipeg 11/25: Do Artifacts Have Politics?

October Meetups

We have another great line-up of meet-ups scheduled for October across a number of our chapters:

New York 10/5: Tomas Petricek on Paul Feyerabend’s The Against Method

Philadelphia 10/6: Stephanie Weirich on From System F to Typed Assembly Language

Toronto 10/7: Suhail Shergill on Reflection without Remorse

Seattle 10/8: Predicting Voice Elicited Emotions

Bangalore 10/10: Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure with Srihari & Nivedita

Addison 10/14: Liniarizability: A Correctness Condition for Concurrent Objects

Winnipeg 10/14: Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems

Saint Louis 10/19: Robotic SLAM!

London 10/21: Emily Green on The PartTime Parliament (Paxos)

Montreal 10/22: “A Short Cut to Deforestation” by Gill, Launchbury, Peyton Jones

Bangalore 10/24: Logstructured merge-tree with Sreekanth Vadagiri

Los Angeles 10/28: Sam L’ecuyer on Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats

San Francisco 10/29: Aysylu Greenberg on “Probabilistic Accuracy Bounds”