Turing Techtalk Series Session

Subject: Turing Techtalk Series - Sat, June 28, 2014, 2.00 pm- 5.00 pm, Dewang Mehta & Kalidasa Auditorium.

All,

We are pleased to announce the 8th session of the Turing Techtalk series for this year. This time, we have organized a Technical talk, centered around the Life and work of  2013 Turing Award Recipient Leslie Lamport

To help us plan the logistics, please register if you are planning to attend the session.

Turing Techtalk Series  Session

Date: Sat, June 28, 2014
Place: Dewang Mehta Auditorium
Persistent Systems Ltd. Bhageerath, 402 Senapati Bapat Road, Pune 411016
Time: 2.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Event will have a Live Webcast at all Persistent locations and the Colleges who wish to arrange it.

Schedule

·         “Life and work of 2013 Turing Award Recipient Leslie Lamport

In March 2014, Leslie Lamport was named the 2013 winner of the Alan Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery(ACM), widely regarded as the Nobel Prize in computing.

Over the past 40 years, Lamport has made several foundational contributions to the theory and practice of distributed computing.  His early work includes the Bakery Algorithm for the mutual exclusion problem and an insightful paper on the importance of causality in a distributed system.  He later investigated fault tolerance in the presence of so-called Byzantine failures---worst case scenarios that could disrupt the correct functioning of a distributed system.  His distributed consensus algorithm Paxos is widely used in many modern replicated data storage systems.  A recurrent theme in his work is the importance of precise specifications and formal reasoning in ensuring the correctness of concurrent systems.

Speaker: Madhavan Mukund, Dean of Studies, Chennai Mathematical Institute

·         Tea Break

·         Skilling for SMAC

Social-Mobile-Analytics-Cloud (SMAC) technologies will play a significant role in the building of next generation software products and solutions. Building solutions on this SMAC-stack requires a unique set of technical skills, different from the traditional software programming. This talk will focus on some of the upcoming SMAC trends and the skills needed to stay relevant as these trends unfold.

Speaker: Anand Deshpande,  CMD, Persistent

       

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http://www.persistent.com/news-and-events/Turing-100-celebration/Leslie-Lamport