Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:00 PM EDT
Dallas Fraser, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Combining text and mathematics when searching in a corpus with extensive mathematical notation remains an open problem. Recent results for math information retrieval systems on the math and text retrieval task at NTCIR-12, for example, show room for improvement, even though formula retrieval appears to be fairly successful.
Friday, May 11, 2018 1:30 PM EDT
Babar Naveed Memon, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) can be used to implement a shared storage abstraction or a shared nothing abstraction for distributed applications. We argue that the shared storage abstraction is an overkill for loosely coupled applications and that the shared nothing abstraction does not leverage all the benefits of RDMA.
Thursday, May 10, 2018 2:00 PM EDT
Daniel Lemire
Université Télug
Maximizing performance in data engineering is a daunting challenge. We present some of our work on designing faster indexes, with a particular emphasis on compressed indexes. Some of our prior work includes (1) Roaring indexes which are part of multiple big-data systems such as Spark, Hive, Druid, Atlas, Pinot, Kylin, (2) EWAH indexes are part of Git (GitHub) and included in major Linux distributions.
