The research project funded by Olga’s CAREER grant (“Towards Extensible Performance Management for Cloud Data Services“) aims to a) develop declarative mechanisms that allow application developers to express custom performance criteria for data processing tasks and b) exploit the properties of these mechanisms to design extensible resource, workload and Service-Level-Agreement (SLA) management services for cloud databases.

The project also includes the design and development of XCloud, an extensible cloud-based platform that will unify these services into a usable cloud utility. The XCloud platform is expected to have a significant research and educational impact as it will act as a test-bed for new performance models and diverse performance management techniques for cloud databases facilitating research and innovation in the emerging domain.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

Olga received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, and completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Brown University in 2008. She joined the Computer Science Department at Brandeis in January 2009.

8:00 AM Registration opens [BAGELS & PASTRY]

9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks

9:15-10:30AM
MIT AI Lab period, 1961-1972
Keynote:  Patrick Winston, introduced by Rodney Brooks
Core memory: Gerald Sussman, Eugene Charniak, Andee Rubin, Drew McDermott, Eugene Freuder, moderated by Edwina Rissland.

[COFFEE BREAK]

11-12:15 PM
Illinois Period, 1973-1984
Keynote: Narendra Ahuja, introduced by Pengyu Hong
Illiac Drum Memory: Tony Maddox, Ray Mooney, Tim Finin, Dick Gabriel, moderated by Gerald DeJong

12:15-1:25PM LUNCH

1:25 PM Special Guest: Marvin Minsky, introduced represented by Douglas Riecken

1:45-2:45 PM
Brandeis Period: 1984-2002
Keynote: James Pustejovsky, Introduced by Scott Waterman
Memory Based Panel: Xiru Zhang, Ron Sun, Evangelos Simoudis, Patrick Tufts, moderated by Rick Alterman.

2:45-3:45 PM
Thinking Machines Period, 1984-1993
Keynote: Jill Mesirov, introduced by Xiru Zhang
Parallel Memory Array: Craig Stanfill, Jena Jordahl, Kurt Thearling, Stephen Smith, moderated by Brij Masand.

[COFFEE BREAK]

4-5 PM
Columbia CLS Period 2003-2012
Keynote: Rebecca Passonneau, introduced by Kathy McKeown
Memory Boosting: Cynthia Rudin, Vladimir Vapnik, Albert Boulanger, Claire Monteleoni, moderated by Douglas Riecken.

5-5:30PM
AAAI President, 1997-1999
Presidential Memoirs: Barbara Grosz, Tom Mitchell, Bruce Buchanan, Randall Davis, moderated by Manuela Veloso.

5:30 PM Dessert Reception sponsored by Ab Initio

Martin is currently the CEO of SitterCity. Previously he was the founder of wis.dm, an
early question/answer social networks

Melissa is currently VP of Engineering, Service and Operations at Awareness Network, an
enterprise social networking firm. Melissa has been founder or co-founder of several
startups.

Johann holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brandeis University and specializes in engineering learning analytics visualizations, models and algorithms.

Stuart Lewtan is founder & CEO of Zintro. Prior to Zintro, he was founder & CEO of
Lewtan Technologies. Stuart is also a Trustee of Brandeis University.

Jeffrey is founder and partner at Seed2A, where he helps teams go from Seed Stage to
Angel/VC Stage. Previously he was a partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, and cofounded eRoom Technology. He loves working with the earliest stage companies.