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SUMMARY:Do Not Believe Everything You Read in the Papers - Tim Harris (Ora
 cle Labs\, Cambridge\, UK)
DTSTART:20160303T150000Z
DTEND:20160303T160000Z
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CONTACT:Liang Wang
DESCRIPTION:Evaluating parallel algorithms is difficult: there are lots of
  possible metrics\, lots of possible ways to run experiments\, and lots of
  ways in which low-level details of the hardware can have unexpectedly lar
 ge impacts on performance.  Tim is going to talk about some of the ways in
  which he has been bitten by these problems in the past\, and then some of
  the techniques he uses to try to organize his own experimental work.\n\nB
 io: Tim Harris leads the Oracle Labs group in Cambridge\, UK.  His researc
 h interests span multiple layers of the stack\, including parallel program
 ming\, VMM / OS / runtime-system interaction\, and opportunities for speci
 alized architecture support for particular workloads.  He has also worked 
 on the implementation of software transactional memory for multi-core comp
 uters\, and the design of programming language features based on it.  He i
 s a co-author of the Morgan Claypool book Transactional Memory.\n\nTim has
  a BA and PhD in computer science from Cambridge University Computer Labor
 atory.  He was on the faculty at the Computer Laboratory from 2000-2004 wh
 ere he led the department's research on concurrent data structures and con
 tributed to the Xen virtual machine monitor project.  He was at Microsoft 
 Research from 2004\, and then joined Oracle Labs in 2012.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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