Keynote Speaker 2: Patrick S.P. Wang

2013 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Keynote Speaker

,,Schiller – war eine Frau“: Nordamerikanische Germanistik und Transkulturalität

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-114
Author(s):  
Gaby Pailer
Keyword(s):  
Keynote Speaker

Abstract Es mag zehn Jahre her sein, dass der kanadische Germanistenverband einen deutschen ,,DaF“-Professoren als keynote speaker geladen hatte. Auf dem Abschlussbankett bereits beim Dessert angelangt, fragte der Gast plötzlich in die Runde: ,,Und Sie sind also alle DAAD-Lektoren?“ Noch weiter zurück liegt eine Begegnung mit dem damaligen deutschen Generalkonsul (nebst Gemahlin) auf einem semestereröffnenden Gartenfest. Ihm als neue Professorin am German Department vorgestellt, erwiderte er: ,,Und was bringt Sie nach Vancouver, Heirat vermutlich?“

PODC 2020 Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Ahad Mirza Baig ◽  
Alkida Balliu ◽  
Peter Davies ◽  
Michal Dory
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Keynote Speaker ◽  
Lively Discussion ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
New Directions ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Distributed Machine Learning

Rachid Guerraoui was the rst keynote speaker, and he got things o to a great start by discussing the broad relevance of the research done in our community relative to both industry and academia. He rst argued that, in some sense, the fact that distributed computing is so pervasive nowadays could end up sti ing progress in our community by inducing people to work on marginal problems, and becoming isolated. His rst suggestion was to try to understand and incorporate new ideas coming from applied elds into our research, and argued that this has been historically very successful. He illustrated this point via the distributed payment problem, which appears in the context of blockchains, in particular Bitcoin, but then turned out to be very theoretically interesting; furthermore, the theoretical understanding of the problem inspired new practical protocols. He then went further to discuss new directions in distributed computing, such as the COVID tracing problem, and new challenges in Byzantine-resilient distributed machine learning. Another source of innovation Rachid suggested was hardware innovations, which he illustrated with work studying the impact of RDMA-based primitives on fundamental problems in distributed computing. The talk concluded with a very lively discussion.

scholarly journals Keynote Speaker Q and A:

Nurse Leader ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Keyword(s):  
Keynote Speaker
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