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SUMMARY:Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable world - Heidi Howard 
 (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20151008T140000Z
DTEND:20151008T150000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
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
  island. We will take a journey to today’s datacenter and the systems po
 wering companies like Google\, Amazon and Microsoft. Along the way\, we wi
 ll face interesting impossibility results\, machines acting maliciously an
 d the complexity to today’s networks. We will discover how to reach agre
 ement between many parties and from this\, how we construct the fault-tole
 rance systems that we depend upon everyday.\nThis is a practice lecture fo
 r the Research Students Lecture Series.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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