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Calendar Greg Badros : 2009 Plenary Meeting
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Location: Fisher Conference Center, Arrillaga Alumni Center
"The Cloud and Google"
Abstract:
Our computing paradigm is changing once again, led by the World Wide Web 15 years ago, more and more data users care about is stored in and served from datacenters. This new architecture depends on standards and puts different demands on all layers of the technology stack resulting in innovations at each of those layers. I'll explain a bit about how Google sees this evolving landscape and discuss the challenges and opportunities it affords.
Greg Badros earned bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Computer
Science from Duke University. After co-founding a successful startup,
he continued to graduate school and earned his masters and doctoral
degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of
Washington in Seattle. Starting at age 14, Greg has accumulated over
a dozen research and trade publications and has spoken at numerous
conferences internationally. His research interests include software
engineering, declarative representations and constraint satisfaction,
distributed systems, and programming language design and
implementation. Greg joined Google in early 2003 as a member of the
systems lab, and has been the Engineering Director for AdSense and for Gmail+,
and is now the Sr. Director of Engineering for Application Platform.
In his free time, he enjoys tennis, skiing, snowboarding, and rollerblading."