S-REPLS Seminar Slides Speaker name: Dr. John Wickerson Abstract A memory consistency model (MCM) is the part of a programming language or computer architecture specification that defines which values can legally be read when a thread in a concurrent program reads from a shared memory location. Because MCMs have to take into account various optimisations employed... Read more »

Speaker: Steven Hutt Seminar title: Deep Learning Financial Market Data Abstract: An introduction to learning patterns in financial market data Slides

Speaker name: Nikolaos Aletras Abstract: Automatically inferring user demographics in social networks is useful for both social science research and a range of downstream applications in marketing and politics. Our main hypothesis is that language use in social networks is indicative of user attributes. This talk presents recent work on inferring a new set of... Read more »

Speaker name: Nikolaos Aletras Automatically inferring user demographics in social networks is useful for both social science research and a range of downstream applications in marketing and politics. Our main hypothesis is that language use in social networks is indicative of user attributes. This talk presents recent work on inferring a new set of socioeconomic... Read more »

Abstract The following main challenges at the interface of automation technology, process technology and information technology will be discussed: Models within the life-cycle Vertical integration from ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) to actuator and vice versa Horizontal integration requirements for highly reliable solutions Human Machine Integration For all of these challenges the state-of-the-art and current BASF... Read more »

The aim of this lecture is to provide an industrial perspective on Model Predictive Control with emphasis on: Important practical requirements Practice-proven solutions and approaches Understanding the required efforts in terms of time and money Differentiation between state of the art, state of science and vision (= inspirations for further developments) Lecture outline Motivation Model... Read more »

Speaker: Dr. Tim Harris, Oracle Labs Cambridge Seminar Title: HiPEDS Seminar - Big graphs on big machines Abstract: Oracle's largest SPARC M7 system provides 4096 hardware threads spread over 16 sockets in one cache-coherent address space. I will talk about our experience tuning graph analytics workloads to run well on this system, and how we went from an implementation that stopped scaling... Read more »

Upcoming lecture by Raja Appuswamy, Postdoctoral Researcger in the DIAS lab at EPFL, on data management systems Abstract The design of data management systems has always been driven based on two aspects, namely, underlying hardware and applications requirements. The past few years have, however, witnessed dramatic changes in both these aspects. On the hardware front,... Read more »

HiPEDS CDT Seminar Series with Giorgio Orsi, Senior Research Scientist at Meltwater. Abstract: Data acquisition plays an important role in modern organisations and is a strategic business process for data-driven companies such as insurers, retailers, and search engines. Data acquisition processes range from manual data collection and purchase, to cheaper but often technically challenging methods... Read more »

Abstract: In 1987, Jim Gray and Gianfranco Putzolu introduced the five-minute rule for trading memory to reduce disk I/O using the then-current price-performance characteristics of DRAM and Hard Disk Drives (HDD). Since then, the five-minute rule has gained wide-spread acceptance as an important rule-of-thumb in data engineering. In the first part of this talk, we... Read more »