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Trusted Distributed Processing Over a Large State

When: Thursday, 2015-June-25, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Bruno Vavala Abstract: Trusted Computing is about guaranteeing the integrity of a remote service based on a small piece of secure hardware. Despite several solutions have been proposed, they either focus … Continue reading

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Brokered ID — a killer app for S2PC?

When: Tuesday, 2015-May-19, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Luís Brandão Abstract: Secure two-party computation allows two parties to compute functions of their combined inputs, while retaining privacy of the inputs. Progress in recent years has improved up to a … Continue reading

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On the Performance of Byzantine Fault-Tolerant MapReduce

When: Wednesday, 2015-May-06, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Pedro Costa Abstract: MapReduce is often used for critical data processing, e.g., in the context of scientific or financial simulation. However, there is evidence in the literature that there are arbitrary … Continue reading

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Computational challenges in Gene Expression studies

When: Thursday, 2015-Apr-02, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Margarida Gama-Carvalho Abstract: Since Francis Crick introduced his pioneer concepts in the 50’s that molecular biologists like myself have been striving in the lab to unravel the principles and mechanisms underlying … Continue reading

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Raft Consensus

When: Thursday, 2015-Feb-12, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Pedro Costa Abstract: Raft is a consensus algorithm that is designed to be easy to understand. It’s equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it’s decomposed into … Continue reading

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Exploring declarative and operational models for communication-centered programming

When: Thursday, 2015-Jan-22, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Hugo A. López Abstract: Communication-Centred (CC) programming has as a focus the descriptions of reliable communication protocols for distributed systems. Interestingly, there has been two main visions when specifying CC programs: … Continue reading

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A review of some of the features introduced in Java SE 7

When: Thursday, 2014-Nov-27, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Ricardo Fonseca Abstract: In this Smalltalk I will talk about some of the features introduced in Java SE 7. Although version 7 was introduced in the year 2011, some of its … Continue reading

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Diego Kreutz — Towards Secure and Dependable Authentication and Authorization Infrastructures

When: Thursday, 2014-Nov-13, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Diego Kreutz Abstract: We propose a resilience architecture for improving the security and dependability of authentication and authorization infrastructures, in particular the ones based on RADIUS and OpenID. This architecture employs … Continue reading

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Slack and Git are your best friends

When: Wednesday, 2014-Oct-29, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Carlos Mão de Ferro Abstract: If you are not a solitaire cowboy while coding your masterpieces than you got to know two important tools: Git and Slack. Come to the next … Continue reading

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Data structures for big data — Bloom filter

When: Thursday, 2014-Oct-16, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Vinicius Cogo Abstract: In this smalltalk, the presenter will describe the Bloom filter (BF) data structure, as well as present known use cases in big data and some existent implementations. BFs … Continue reading

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