Platform Lab Spring Retreat 2017
June 8-9, 2017
Seascape Beach Resort
Aptos, CA
Thursday, June 8th
| 12:00pm | Check in and Lunch |
| 1:00pm | Welcome, Introductions, Platform Lab Overview (John Ousterhout) | Slides |
| 1:45pm | Self-Driving Networks — Balaji Prabhakar | Slides |
| 2:10pm | Network Clock Synchronization — Yilong Geng | Slides |
| 2:35pm | Deep Reinforcement Learning for Content Delivery — Sachin Katti | Slides |
| 3:00pm | Break |
| 3:30pm | Granular computing for low-latency compression and compilation — Keith Winstein | Slides |
| 3:55pm | Arachne: Core-Aware Thread Management — Henry Qin | Slides |
| 4:20pm | A coarse-grain reconfigurable architecture for analytics — Raghu Prabhakar | Slides |
| 4:45pm | Breakout Discussions (in parallel): Self Driving Networks, Granular Computing, Scalable Notification, Serverless Computing |
| 5:45pm | Reception/posters |
| 7:00pm | Dinner |
| 9:00pm | Board games |
Friday, June 9th
| 8:00am | Breakfast |
| 9:00am | Reports from the breakout discussions |
| 9:25am | Efficient Methods for Deep Neural Networks — Song Han | Slides |
| 9:50am | Predictable Stream Processing — Manu Bansal | Slides |
| 10:15am | Can Great Programmers Be Taught? — John Ousterhout | Slides |
| 10:40pm | Recreation and Informal Conversations |
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00pm | BCP for datacenters — Matei Zaharia | Slides |
| 1:25pm | Hierarchy for Web Search — Grant Ayers |
| 1:50pm | Homa: A Receiver-Driven Low-Latency Transport Protocol Using Network Priorities — Behnam Montazeri | Slides |
| 2:15pm | CGAR: Strong Consistency without Synchronous Replication — Seo Jin Park | Slides |
| 2:40pm | Break |
| 3:00pm | Machine Learning Methods for Networking — Zi Yin | Slides |
| 3:25pm | Accelerating Genomics Computations 1000x with Hardware — Yatish Turakhia |
| 3:50pm | Industrial Feedback |
| 4:30pm | Wrap-up |
