The frontier of fault tolerant distributed system's research

Speaker:        Professor Danny Dolev
                Hebrew University

Title:          "The frontier of fault tolerant distributed system's
                 research"

Date:           3 October 2016

Time:           4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

The world around many aspects of our modern life is composed of a
distributed system of many interacting computing devices.

Many operations depend upon having the system correctly operating. Any
such system is exposed to a variety of faults that may range from
transient events, hardware source and malicious faults.

In the talk I will describe the current practice and the research frontier
in fault tolerant distributed computing.  We will discuss fault models and
the implications regarding both software and hardware design.

I will give an example of a protocol that overcomes the most challenging
faults in a relatively simple manner.
I will mention some very recent theoretical results along these lines.


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Biography:

Danny Dolev  received his B.Sc. degree in mathematics and physics from the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1971;  M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, in 1973; and  Ph.D. on
Synchronization of Parallel Processors in 1979, also  at the Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel.

He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at Stanford University, 1979-1981, and IBM
Research Fellow 1981-1982.  He joined the Hebrew University in 1982.  He
is currently a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the
chairman of the Authority for Computation, Communication & Information at
the Hebrew University. Prof. Prof. Dolev is the head of the Cyber Security
Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

His research interests cover all aspects of distributed computing, fault
tolerance, security and networking - theory and practice, with special
focus on Cyber Security. He published more than 200 papers with more than
19,000 citations. Many of his students are faculty membersin leading
universities worldwide.

www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dolev