Monday, September 14, 2015 • Humanities Theatre • 2 p.m.
Monica Beckwith has worked with the Java Virtual Machine for more than a decade not just optimizing the JVM heuristics,but also improving the Just-in-time (JIT) code quality for various processor architectures as well as working with the garbage collectors and improving garbage collection for server systems.
During this talk, Monica will cover a few JIT and Runtime optimizations and she will dive into the HotSpot garbage collection and provide an overview of the various garbage collectors available in HotSpot.
This talk is open to all members of the community.
The next Waterloo-local Association for Computing Machinery style programming contest will be held on Saturday, June 24 in MC 3003. All members of the Waterloo community are invited to try their programming skill in Scheme, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, or Scala.
For full details and online registration, please see: http://acm.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~acm00/
The next Waterloo-local ACM-style programming contest will be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 in MC 3003.
All members of the UW community are invited to try their programming skill in Racket, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python or Scala!
The results of this local contest will be used to select the UW teams for the international ACM competition. We will send three or more teams of three students each to the East Central North America Regional in Windsor on October 27–28, 2017.
James Demmel
University of California, Berkeley
Dead canary in the coalmine: We just lost the web in the war on general purpose computing
What are we? By what processes and patterns did we originate and how do these patterns compare to the processes of the world around us, digital and biological, societal and fictional?