Archive for the ‘persistent’ tag.
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (RSA) – 11 May
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2002 Turing Award recipients Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adelman, the inventors of the RSA algorithm, and public key cryptography. Dr. Pandurang Kamat, Principal Architect at Persistent Systems will talk about his work. After this, [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Judea Pearl – 9 Mar
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2011 Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl, followed by a “Turing 100″ quiz that teams of professionals and students can participate in. Judea Pearl was given the Turing award for the development of a calculus for probabilistic [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of John Backus (Fortran|BNF) – 2 Feb
The Turing100 Lecture Series come back with the 6th session. This time, there are two Technical talks, centered around the life and works of 1977 Turing Award recipient, Dr. John Backup. In addition to several other contributions, Dr Backus is well-known for his pioneering work on Fortran as well as the inventor of the Backus-Naur [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Jim Gray – By Anand Deshpande – 5 Jan
The Turing100 Lecture Series come back with the 6th session. This time, there are two Technical talks, centered around the life and works of 1998 Turing Award recipient, Dr. Jim Gray. Jim Gray made seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and implementions of real systems at Tandem, IBM, and Microsoft. Among his best [...]
Turing100 Event Report: Work of Butler Lampson – Systems
(This is a live-blog of Neeran Karnik‘s talk on Butler Lampson, as part of the Turing100 Lecture Series happening at Persistent. Since it is being typed during the talk, please forgive the typos and bad structuring of the article. This article is also very incomplete.) Butler Lampson has contributions in a wide area of computer [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Butler Lampson – Systems, Security, Verification and more – Nov 24
In 1992, Butler Lampson received the Turing award in for his contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing. On Saturday, 24th November, Neeran Karnik, Senior Architect at BMC Software, will give a talk about Butler Lampson’s [...]
BioCrats – Life Sciences & Software Conference – 7 Dec
BioCrats is a Persistent Systems’ initiative with an aim to build a vibrant scientific community in the field of life sciences by connecting, sharing and moving on basis of exchanging ideas. ‘BioCrats Connect’ Convention is a half day interactive session, bringing together leading industrialists, scholars and academicians. It’s a platform to interact and discuss science, [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Robin Milner and Polymorphic Type Inference in Programming Langauges – Oct 6
Robin Milner received the Turing award in 1991 for three major contributions to computer science: In the area of automated theorem proving – He developed LCF, the first theoretically sound yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction In the area of programming language design – He developed ML, the first language to use polymorphic [...]
Event Report: The Work and Impact of Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf
(This is a liveblog of the Turing100@Persistent Lecture on Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf by R. Venkateswaran, CTO of Persistent Systems. Since it is being typed as the event is happening, it is not really well structured, but should rather be viewed as a collection of bullet points of interesting things said during the talk.) [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Vint Cerf + Bob Kahn – “Fathers of the Internet” – 8 Sept
Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn invented TCP and IP, the two protocols at the heart of the internet, and are hence considered the “Fathers of the Internet”. For this and other fundamental contributions, they were awarded the Turing award in 2004. On 8th September, R. Venkateswaran, CTO of Persistent Systems, will give a talk on [...]