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Tuesday, May 7, 2019 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

DLS: Margo Seltzer • Systems Research — Construed Broadly

Margo Seltzer
Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems
University of British Columbia

photo of Margo Seltzer
Once upon a time, computer systems was a broad field encompassing everything from hardware to software. The incredible growth and success that our field has experienced over the past half a century has had the side effect of transforming systems into a constellation of siloed fields. 

Indexing is a game of tradeoffs: Organize your data now and be rewarded with lower read latencies later. The question of whether, how, or when to organize has led to a proliferation of many different, often highly-specialized index structures.