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Heidi Howard, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge 
Tuesday 17 November 2015, 10:00-10:40
Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable world
- 👤 Speaker: Heidi Howard, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 17 November 2015, 10:00 - 10:40
- 📍 Venue: Norwich Room, University Information Services, West Cambridge
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Abstract
In this talk, we explore how to construct resilient distributed systems on top of unreliable components. Starting, almost two decades ago, with Leslie Lamport’s work on organising parliament for a Greek island. We will take a journey to today’s datacenter and the systems powering companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Along the way, we will face interesting impossibility results, machines acting maliciously and the complexity to today’s networks. We will discover how to reach agreement between many parties and from this, how we construct the fault-tolerance systems that we depend upon everyday.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge Tech Talks series.
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