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Seminars and Lectures
Seminars
- 2009-2010
- 25 Nov 2009:
Bing's Cosmos: Large Scale Distributed Storage and Computational Environment
by Bill Ramsey, Ph.D. Principal Architect at Microsoft for Bing.com Search Engine
Abstract: This talk will cover a large-scale distributed storage and computational environment called Cosmos that is used internally by Microsoft. Basic distributed storage concepts will be introduced from a practical standpoint and then shown how they are implemented at scale. Similarly Map/Reduce will be briefly covered and shown how the concepts are leveraged by the SCOPE language. The talk will end with an overview of our SCOPE language and some of the constructs in the language.
About the Speaker: Bill Ramsey is a Principal Architect at Microsoft and has been in the company since 2001. He has over 30 patents pending in areas ranging from language auto-detection, spell checking, semantic processing, and speech systems to distributed computing and natural user interfaces. While at Microsoft he invented the contextual speller (the blue squiggles that appear in "I want to send a from letter") and wrote the semantic engine used for the Instant Search feature in Outlook and Vista. He has also written numerous prototypes in speech grammar and dialog generation, semantics, natural language, natural user interfaces, and feedback models for improving search. He invented the SCOPE language (and several other variants) to facilitate processing massive amounts of data easily and has spent two years on the Cosmos team.
Prior to Microsoft, he worked in New York developing option pricing models and writing algorithms to predict the performance of America’s Cup racing yachts, submarines and propellers. He holds three degrees from MIT: S.B. (1993) in Mechanical Engineering, S.M. (1995) in Ocean Engineering, Ph.D. (1996) in Hydrodynamics.
- 24 Nov 2009:
Data Stream Processing Using Microsoft StreamInsight
by Mohamed Ali, Ph.D. Microsoft SQL Server - StreamInsight Group
Abstract: In this talk, we present the Microsoft StreamInsight Server. Microsoft StreamInsight is an event stream processing system featured by its declarative query language and its multiple consistency levels of stream query processing. Query composability, query fusing, and operator sharing are key features in the Microsoft StreamInsight query processor. Moreover, the debugging and supportability tools of Microsoft StreamInsight provide visibility of system internals to users. Microsoft SQL Server has been leveraging its query processing expertise to handle streaming-oriented workloads. As a result, the design of Microsoft StreamInsight has incorporated state of the art research to meet the demands of commercial workloads. In Microsoft StreamInsight, a data stream is modeled as a time-varying relation. In such a relation, events are represented as tuples which include the event’s temporal semantics as two timestamps, encoding a validity interval, or lifetime. The lifetime indicates the range of time when the tuple is valid from the event provider’s perspective. Microsoft StreamInsight has several features that include: automatic handling of compensations for out-of-order events, speculative execution, support for modifying the lifetimes of earlier events, and the ability to operate over a wide range of consistency levels (as defined by tradeoffs between output blocking and memory usage).
About the Speaker: Mohamed Ali obtained his B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the school of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt. Immediately after the completion of his B.Sc. degree, he joined the computer science program for graduate studies where he started his research in database systems. Two years later, he obtained his M.Sc. degree in computer science from the same school. Mohamed joined Purdue University to pursue his research in large scale database systems. Mohamed’s main research interests focus on advancing the state of the art in the design and implementation of database and data stream systems to cope with the requirements of emerging applications. In the summer of 2006, he visited with the database group at Microsoft Research where he and his colleague ramped up the Complex Event Detection and Response (CEDR) project. Mohamed graduated with a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University and joined the SQL Server group at Microsoft Corporation to incubate the CEDR project into Microsoft SQL Server. The project is brand-named as Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight.
- 25 Nov 2009:
Bing's Cosmos: Large Scale Distributed Storage and Computational Environment
by Bill Ramsey, Ph.D. Principal Architect at Microsoft for Bing.com Search Engine
- 2008-2009
- 2007-2008
Quarterly Colloquia
A colloquium is held at the end of each academic quarter to highlight student experiences in internships, directed research and capstone projects.
For academic year 2009-2010, here are the planned dates:
- Autumn 2009: Dec. 11, 2009
- Winter 2010: March 12, 2010
- Spring 2010: June 4, 2010
- Summer 2009 Colloquium
Friday, August 21, 2009
9:00am until 2:00pm in CP 105Please click here for abstracts.
CP 105 Presentations from 9:00am-2:00pm Time Presenter Title Adviser/Committee 9:00am Rebecca Hendricks HTML and JavaScript Dr. Ankur Teredesai 9:30am Matt Evans Development of an Operating System Scheduler Dr. George Mobus 10:00am David Schwartz Practical Computing: Implementing Network Applications Dr. Yan Bai 10:30am Jonathan Hoggins Improving Breast Reconstruction with 3D Imaging Dr. Dan Zimmerman, Fatima A. Merchant 11:00am Rinkesh Nagmoti Authority on Twitter Dr. Ankur Teredesai 11:30am Chad Mowery NewTec: Service Oriented Architecture & Test Driven Development Mr. Andrew Fry 12:00pm Billy Lybyer,
Robert Welliever,
Yuriy Aleksyeyev,
Cody SandwithA Working Prototype of a Daily Dietary Social Network Dr. Ankur Teredesai 12:30pm Seid Adem Learning Management System (LMS) Dr. Sam Chung 1:00pm Jamie Monrow Escaping the Forest of Paper Documents Dr. Sam Chung 1:30pm Kamaldeep Sidhu The Need For Open Source in Societies Critical Embedded Applications Dr. Matthew Alden - Spring 2009 Colloquium
Friday, June 5 2009
10:00am until 2:30pm in CP 103 and CP 108Please click here for abstracts.
CP 103 Presentations from 10:00am-2:00pm Time Presenter Title Adviser/Committee 10:00am Lori Eaton The Courting Rituals of a Male Robot Dr. George Mobus 10:30am Steven Lynch,
Richard HillPRISE: A Protein Interaction Search Engine Dr. Martine De Cock,
Dr. Ankur Teresdesai,
Timur Fayruzov11:00am Jessica Benner Honeynet Design and Implementation Dr. Yan Bai,
Don McLane2:00pm CES Students CES Senior Designs Dr. Jei Sheng
CP 108 Presentations from 10:00am-2:00pm Time Presenter Title Adviser/Committee 10:00am Craig Truzzi Automated Gene Description Architecture Dr. Isabelle Bichindaritz 10:30am Kasthuri Balasubramanian Interdisciplinary Research Support System using Federated Search Dr. Isabelle Bichindaritz,
Dr. George Mobus11:30am Josh Archer,
Scott Jones,
Riley BrewerSilverlight Dr. Ankur Teredesai 12:30pm Michael Munsey,
Nick SpenceAd Auctions Dr. Ankur Teredesai,
Dr. Steve Hanks,
Dr. Martine De Cock1:30pm Jose Grande,
Justin RaynorDirected Reading Dr. Jei Sheng 2:00pm Robotics Students Demonstration (may be held in CP206D) Dr. George Mobus - Winter 2009 Colloquium
Friday, March 13, 2009
10:00am until 1:00pm in BHS 104 and BB 106Please click here for abstracts.
BHS 104 Presentations from 10:30am-1:30pm Time Presenter Title Adviser/Committee 10:30am Paul Sayre Directed Reading - MySQL and JavaScript: 2/3 of the Web 2.0 World Mr. Andrew Fry 11:00am Arden Gudger Internship - GIS Development was ASP.NET for the Web Dr. George Mobus 11:30am Jordan Gotlieb, Scott Jones and Jon Richards Verified Gaming Dr. Dan Zimmerman 12:30pm Justin James Carton A Study of Cloud Computing Dr. Yan Bai 1:00pm Tim Simon Perfomance Comparisons of Anonymous Services Dr. Yan Bai
BB 106 Presentations from 12:00pm-2:00pm Time Presenter Title Adviser/Committee 12:00pm Chelsea Lopez Improvements to the Current Burkhart Online Ordering System Dr. Sam Chung 12:30pm Rupali Bodhankar Computer Cooking Contest Dr. Isabelle Bichindaritz 1:00pm Kasthuri Balasubramanian Interdisciplinary Research Support System using Federated Search Dr. Isabelle Bichindaritz,
Dr. George MobusPresenting during the Open House:
- Class Demonstration, from the CSS Database Systems Design
Title: Indexing in Main Memory
Abstract: Database System Design students entered the SIGMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) competition where they designed a main memory indexing system. This indexing system could be written in any language that supports POSIX threads, and can use any underlying data structure. The system has to support serializable transactions consisting of exact match queries, range queries, updates, inserts, and deletes.
Instructor: Dr. Ankur Teredasai
Students: Ashish Bindra, Steven Hotag, Jeremy Kallstorm, Matthew Fiebig , Jon Richards, Nicolas Summerlin
- Student Lab Presentations, from Directed Research and Internship
Students:Curt Small, Kristoffer Canilang
Instructor:Dr. Sam Chung
- Class Demonstration, from the CSS Database Systems Design
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