Speaker: Dr. Alfred Spector Abstract: Data-driven approaches have led to powerful prediction, optimization and automation techniques. Powered by large-scale, networked computer systems and machine learning algorithms, these have been very impactful to-date and hold great promise in many disciplines, even in the humanities and social sciences. However, no new technology arrives without complications, and we […]

Speaker: Pat Helland (Salesforce.com) Abstract: Increasingly, we see "Gray Failures" in the datacenter and public cloud. This happens when a server, router, or other device just plain goes slow. This may result in severe problems in the user perceived performance as the slowness cascades, sometimes not slow enough to cause the exclusion of the bad […]