Computer Systems Colloquium (Spring 2010)

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Carl Taussig discusses the advantages of paper-like displays and the approach that Hewlett-Packard Laboratories has taken to make them a reality for consumers. (May 19, 2010)

Marc Raibert gives an overview of BigDog, a quadruped robot designed to operate in rough terrain, describes progress so far and outlines plans for what is coming next. (May 12, 2010)

Haiping Zhao discusses how PHP, an easy to use programming language, can be transformed into semantically equivalent C++ to solve performance problems associated with the language and speed up PHP execution. (May 5, 2010)

Rob Pike discusses possible reasons why new computer languages keep appearing and why they led Google engineers to define yet another language, Go. (April 28, 2010)

Jeff Dozier discusses how computational modeling and new environmental technology applications can be used to reliably predict snowmelt runoff and other environmental changes due to climate change and other factors. (April 21, 2010)

Guido Jouret, CTO of the Emerging Technology Group at Cisco, Inc., discusses how video and other emerging technologies are greatly increasing network traffic and how Cisco is attempting to address this through their Medianet initiative. (April 7, 2010)

Venkat Rangan, a hardware engineer at Qualcomm Incorporated, discusses hardware, software, and networking challenges that humans will face in a creating a neuromorphic computer. (March 31, 2010)