Dertouzos Lecturer Series: Professor Monica Lam
Professor Monica Lam from Stanford University gave a talk titled "Converting Cycles into Ease-of-Use and Robustness" on February 6th, 2003.
Abstract:
With the abundance of cheap computer cycles and network bandwidth, we can certainly afford computing and programming environments that are much easier to use and more reliable than the one we have today! This talk describes how we can give users a hassle-free computing experience by organizing our computers as a network of cooperating and anonymous hosts that run virtual (x86) machines. This talk also discusses how we can improve software reliability by using computers to find inconsistencies in programs, and thereby find software errors without requiring user intervention.
Biography:
Monica Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987 and a B.S. from University of British Columbia in 1980. Her current research interests are in program analysis and system architectures.
Professor Lam led the SUIF parallelizing compiler project, which produced a compiler infrastructure that has been widely used for research. Many of the compiler techniques she developed, such as software pipelining and blocking, have become common optimizations used in commercial compilers. During her sabbatical leave from Stanford in 1998, she helped start Tensilica Inc., a company that specializes in configurable processor cores. Honors for her research work at Stanford include an NSF Young Investigator award, an ACM Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Paper Award, and an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.
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