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SUMMARY:Software as a Network - Brighten Godfrey\, UIUC and VMware
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CONTACT:Srinivasan Keshav
DESCRIPTION:The networking community’s energy in recent years has focuse
 d on making networks and network operations more software-driven. But mean
 while\, the applications running on network infrastructure are changing\, 
 too\, and becoming more like a network. Driven by microservice architectur
 es\, this talk will explore how these trends are opening new demands and o
 pportunities for networks\, across all layers of the stack\, with examples
  in network performance and in verifying self-driving network infrastructu
 re. \n\nBio: \nBrighten Godfrey is a professor in the Department of Comput
 er Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and a techn
 ical director at VMware. He co-founded and served as CTO of network verifi
 cation pioneer Veriflow through its 2019 acquisition by VMware. He receive
 d his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2009. His research interests lie in the desi
 gn of networked systems and algorithms. He is a winner of the ACM SIGCOMM 
 Rising Star Award\, the Sloan Research Fellowship\, and the National Scien
 ce Foundation CAREER Award\, and has chaired several conferences including
  ACM HotNets 2014\, the Symposium on SDN Research 2016\, and ACM SIGCOMM 2
 022.
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