Parallel and Distributed Processing: Mere Routine or Exciting Future?

ABSTRACT:
The talk will go back to the distributed and parallel processing work we did at Carnegie Mellon in the 80's, Agora, Beam, etc., and analyze it from the perspective of today's state-of-the-art technology - attempting to bring out the "lessons learned".

SPEAKER BIO:
Roberto Bisiani is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milan, Italy. He was born and studied in Italy, but his career went through a fifteen year detour with the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon, where he mainly worked on system issues related to speech recognition research. His research interests are centered on computer architecture and basic software. He has designed and built a number of computer systems for speech recognition -- most of them have been parallel processors. He is also interested in automatically managing networks of computers and in teaching Computer Architecture.

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