From RAD Lab

Contents 1 Agenda 1.1 January 9th - Monday 1.2 January 10th, Tuesday 1.3 January 11th - Wednesday 2 Other

Agenda

January 9th - Monday

• 13:30 Opening Talks
• 14:45 break

• 15:00 Student talks 1 (joint): 25min talk + 20min discussion
  • Zhangxi Tan - Internet in a Box
  • Rodrigo Fonseca/George Porter - Breaking Layers With Annotations in a Distributed Environment
  • Dennis Geels - Replay Debugging for Distributed Systems
  • Breakout topics (5min)
    • I.I.A.B. (Dave)
    • 1st Application (Rodrigo & James)
    • Lessons from machine learning and systems: past, present, and future (Jordan)
    • Industrial strength web development: making PHP industrial strength (Fox)
    • Networking and data centers: Inside & Outside (Scott & Ion)

• 17:15 break
• 18:00 dinner/assigned tables, discuss breakout topics
• 20:00 Poster Session 1

January 10th, Tuesday

• 08:30 Report back from breakouts
• 10:00 break
• 10:30 Student talks 2 (parallel sessions)
  • TRACK A
    • Steve Zhang - Signatures Retrieval and Clustering
    • Peter Bodik - Capturing and Mining Operator Behavior
    • Weidong Cui - Protocol-Independent Adaptive Replay of Application Dialog
  • TRACK B
    • Karthik Lakshimnarayanan - Making DHTs Robust to Internet Routing Failures
    • Fang Yu - Fast and Memory-Efficient Regular Expression Matching for Deep Packet Inspection
    • Jayanthkumar Kannan - On the Session Structure of Network Applications

• 12:30 Lunch/long break/skiing
• 17:00 Work-in-progress sessions (shorter talks: 10min talk + 10 disc.)
  • Wei Xu - Regulating workload in J2EE application servers
  • Brighten Godfrey - Node Selection to Minimize Churn in Distributed Systems
  • James Zhang - Proposed RADS Testbed App
  • Signup for open mic session

• 18:30 Check from Sun
• 18:30 Dinner - Mike Jordan talk
• 20:00 Open mic session
• 21:00 Poster Session 2

January 11th - Wednesday

• 08:30 Visitor Feedback (Discussion of feedback at the bottom of the Visitor Feedback)
• 10:00 Break, checkout, Photo
• 10:30 Visitor Feedback 2 (joint)
• 12:00 Lunch/departure

Other

Any other informative or logistic matters.

• Future retreat dates
• Feedback about the retreat itself
• Feedback Discussion
• If you're interested in using machine learning techniques to attack systems problems, take a look at SysML 2006 at [1]. The paper deadline is March 3rd, the workshop is on June 27, co-located with SIGMETRICS in Saint-Malo, France. Please submit your best papers!