Featured Speakers
Joshua Bernstein recently joined EMC as the new VP of Technology for the Emerging Technologies Division. Prior to EMC, Joshua ran the Siri Deployment and Infrastructure Architecture team at Apple for 4 1/2 years. As a member of the small team, Joshua and his colleagues successfully took Siri from launch to tens of thousands of servers, deploying in over a dozen locations worldwide. Prior to working at Apple, Joshua was the senior software engineer at Penguin Computing specializing in design and implementation of large scale distributed systems management software. In addition, he has worked on many high profile NASA missions, including the design for the image processing pipeline of the HiRISE Camera currently on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Joshua is a large contributor to the Open Source community, contributing to multiple projects including Mesos, HDFS, HBASE, Zookeeper, Samba, OpenMPI, Torque, and the Linux Infiniband Stack. Joshua studied computer engineering at the University of Arizona.
Ken is a serial entrepreneur and a professor of computer science at Cornell University, where he has worked since getting his PhD at UC Berkeley in 1981. His research has always focused on reliable distributed computing. Back in the 1990’s he developed core parts of the French air traffic control system, the New York and Swiss Stock Exchanges, the US Navy AEGIS communication system, and Oracle’s network management infrastructure. More recently his research contributed to the architecture of AWS and IBM Websphere, created a new software fault-tolerance approach for Cisco’s CRS-1 network routers, and was adopted in a smart grid prototype system being built by ISO NE to monitor the bulk power grid in the US Northeast. His web page has details and links to some of his publications and open source software systems.
BIO: Benjamin Hindman is a Founder and Chief Architect at Mesosphere where he leads a team building out core services for the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS). Ben co-created Apache Mesos as a PhD student at UC Berkeley before bringing it to Twitter where it now runs on tens of thousands of machines powering Twitter's datacenters. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.