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Moving is not for the faint of heart! The surgeon general should issue a warning against moving houses after age 50. Coordinating our cross-country move was one of the hardest thing I had done. Selling our house in Buffalo, finding a suitable rental house in the Bay Area, figuring out the...
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We spent 10 days in Italy in early April. It was a lot of fun.Back when I was a grad student, I stayed in Pisa for a month for a "summer school on mobile computing" in 2003. Mobile computing was the next "big" thing back then. (In retrospect, the research was misguided about the local/distributed...
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Last week, I traveled to San Jose to attend the ACM CAIS conference. On Day 0, I gave a short talk at the Supporting our AI Overlords (SAO) workshop. And yes, I promise to write a summary of our paper, "A Case for Simulation-Driven Resilience in Agent-First Data Systems" soon! To start with an...
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Ok, finally getting sometime to put my butt down to write about day 2 of BugBash.Why do so few buildings fall down?Brian Potter, Senior Infrastructure Fellow @ Institute for Progress, Author of Construction Physics newsletter.Buildings rarely collapse. The rate of major structural failing is ...
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These are my notes from the afternoon sessions of BugBash'26. We had a 75 minute lunch break. Nice lunch, but there were no vegetarian entries, which made Peter Alvaro hangry. I don't blame him, I would be too. Informal methodsBen Eggers, Member of Technical Staff @ OpenAIThis was a fun and also...
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Continuing with notes from the BugBash talks. Yes, all of this goodness, including Will Wilson's keynote was before lunch the first day.Where all the ladders startPeter Alvaro, Associate Professor of Computer Science @ UC Santa CruzIn this talk, Peter reflects back on his 20 years of distributing...