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SUMMARY:Queuing Theory and Scale - Cara Donnelly\, Google
DTSTART:20160114T130000Z
DTEND:20160114T140000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Yannakoudakis
DESCRIPTION:The Euston Tap is a good pub in London. Upstairs\, it has two 
 bathroom cubicles: 'men'\, and 'men and women'. How should customers queue
 ? We give some Fermi calculations about when give ourselves permission to 
 solve fun and difficult problems properly\, give an outline of Google's re
 cently-publicised scheduling system\, Borg\, and then solve a fun and diff
 icult queueing theory problem properly.\n\n*Short Bio:*\n\nDr Donnelly stu
 died for her PhD in astrophysics at DAMTP\, Cambridge\, submitting in 2013
 . She was president of the CU Go Soc\, treasurer of the CU Real Ale Soc\, 
 and president of the Cambridge Impronauts. She is now a Google Site Reliab
 ility Engineer supporting Google Analytics\, which was reported in 2012 to
  be used by more than ten million websites.
LOCATION:Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building\, LT2
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