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Improving the Dependability of Distributed Systems through AIR Software Upgrades by Tudor Dumitras
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11:00:00 AM on 1/25/2011
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PHE 631
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Speaker: Tudor Dumitras, Symantec Research Lab
Host: Prof. Ramesh Govindan, USC
Abstract:
Traditional fault-tolerance approaches concentrate almost entirely on responding to, avoiding, or tolerating unexpected faults or security violations. However, scheduled events, such as software upgrades, account for most of the system unavailability and often introduce data loss or latent errors. In this talk, I will present two empirical studies that identify the leading causes of upgrade failure--...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1168
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Learning to Effectively and Efficiently Rank at Scale by Donald Metzler
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3:30:00 PM on 1/27/2011
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Dr. Donald Metzler, ISI, USC: Information Retrieval (Natural Language and Machine Learning
Host: Prof. Louis-Philipe Morency, USC
Abstract:
Ranking functions serve as the "brains" of modern search engines. Developing ranking functions that are both effective (i.e., produce highly relevant results) and efficient (i.e., produce a ranking in a short amount of time) is a challenging research problem, especially when dealing with large document collections, such as the Web. Machine le...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1178
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