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SUMMARY:Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable world - Heidi Howard 
 (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20151013T120000Z
DTEND:20151013T130000Z
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CONTACT:Heidi Howard
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, we explore how to construct resilient distri
 buted systems on top of unreliable components. Starting\, almost two decad
 es ago\, with Leslie Lamport's work on organising parliament for a Greek i
 sland. We will take a journey to today's datacenter and the systems poweri
 ng companies like Google\, Amazon and Microsoft. Along the way\, we will f
 ace interesting impossibility results\, machines acting maliciously and th
 e 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.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, Room SW01
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