Systems Research -- construed broadly
Margo Seltzer (University of British Columbia)
Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 3:30 pm
EEB-105
Abstract
Once upon a time, Computer Systems was a broad field encompassing everything
from hardware to software. The incredible growth and success that our field
has experienced over the past half a century has had the side effect of
transforming systems into a constellation of siloed fields. I'm going to make
the case that we should return to a broad interpretation of systems, undertake
bolder, higher risk projects, and be intentional about how we interact with
other fields. I'll support the case with examples of several research projects
that embody this approach.
Bio
Margo Seltzer is a Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Science and Cheriton Family
Chair in Computer Systems at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing provenance, file systems, databases,transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, new architectures for parallelizing execution, and systems that apply technology to problems in healthcare. Dr. Seltzer received an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.