The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University is pleased to invite you to our upcoming CSE Distinguished Lecture featuring:
Mahadev (Satya) Satyanarayanan
Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Lecture Title:
The Duality of “Carry” and “Find” in Mobile and Pervasive Systems
📅 Friday, September 11
🕚 11:00 a.m.
📍 Dreese Laboratories 480 or via Zoom
🔗 Zoom Link: https://go.osu.edu/cse-distinguished-lecture-satyanarayanan
Abstract
This talk examines when a mobile system should view a resource as portable (and hence carried by its user), and when it can be viewed as pervasive (and hence easily found whenever and wherever needed). It shows that the anticipated worst-case scenario while mobile is the critical determinant. If the resource is easily and reliably available at all visited locations, then it can be treated as a pervasive resource. If there is reasonable doubt about its availability or attributes at even one visited location, then it has to be treated as portable.
Using this resource-centric viewpoint, the talk highlights the unique role of the cloud in mobile computing, as well as its limitations. It discusses how some legacy systems can be rearchitected using modern technology and how emerging real-time mobile AI systems will have to straddle the “carry” versus “find” divide.
The lecture is based on a paper of the same title: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11474699
About the Speaker
Mahadev (Satya) Satyanarayanan is a pioneering researcher whose multi-decade career has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability, and trust in information systems spanning the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. His groundbreaking contributions have shaped the fields of distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Widely regarded as the “Father of Edge Computing,” Satya is recognized for his seminal work establishing the foundations of edge computing. He serves as the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, along with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and EAI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
