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SUMMARY:Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Syste
 ms - Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford)
DTSTART:20200121T130000Z
DTEND:20200121T140000Z
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CONTACT:Marco Caballero
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nWe describe Self-Programming Networks (SPNs)\, an o
 ngoing research effort at \nStanford for making cloud computing networks a
 utonomous\; that is\, to enable the\nnetworks to sense and monitor themsel
 ves\, and program and control themselves. \nOur architecture for SPNs is e
 dge-centric: the sensing and control actions are only\nperformed at the ne
 twork's edge.  We present some key outcomes of this program: \n(i) Huygens
 \, for scalable and accurate clock synchronization\, and (ii) Simon\, for 
 \nfine-grained network telemetry using observations from the network's edg
 e.  We \nalso describe the relevance of this work to existing financial tr
 ading systems and \ndemonstrate how\, in future\, it enables financial tra
 ding systems in the Cloud.\n\nBio: \nBalaji Prabhakar is VMware Founders P
 rofessor of Computer Science\, Electrical \nEngineering and\, by courtesy\
 , in the Graduate School of Business\, Stanford University. \nBalaji’s r
 esearch interests are in computer networks\; notably\, data centers and cl
 oud \ncomputing.  From 2008 to 2016 he worked on Societal Networks: networ
 ks vital for society's \nfunctioning\, such as transportation\, electricit
 y and recycling systems.  He led the development \nand deployment of "nudg
 e engines" for transportation systems (notably\, Singapore mass \ntransit 
 and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART))\, wellness programs\, and corporate
  \nlearning programs.  Based on this work\, he co-founded Urban Engines\, 
 a startup which \nwas acquired by Google in 2016.\n\nBalaji has received t
 he NSF CAREER Award\, the Erlang Prize from the INFORMS Applied \nProbabil
 ity Society\, the Rollo Davidson Prize from the University of Cambridge an
 d delivered \nthe Lunteren Lectures of the Dutch Operations Research Socie
 ty.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE\, \nthe ACM and the Alfred P. Sloan Founda
 tion.  He has received the inaugural IEEE Innovation \nin Societal Infrast
 ructure Award\, and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award.  He has served on the \
 nAdvisory Board of the Future Urban Mobility Initiative of the World Econo
 mic Forum.
LOCATION:FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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