Keynotes, Talks and Publications

Prof. Eric A. Brewer

(updated 12 Sep 2004)

Keynotes

WWW 2005: Technology for Developing Regions, May 2005
Computer History Museum: The History of Inktomi, June 2004.
Infocom 2003 Keynote Presentation, April 1, 2003
CIDR 2003: "Out of the Box" is Out of Control" Asilomar, CA. January 2003.
HotInterconnects Keynote, August 23, 2002 “Thinking across layers. What do we want out of a network?”
Stanford, CA. August 22, 2002.
National Association of Broadcasters, NAB2001: "Communications and the Net in the New Economy: Who Will Tie It All Together?" Las Vegas, NV. April 2001.
Infonortics Search Engine Conference 2001: “The Next Evolution: A New Infrastructure for Connecting Content with Users.” Boston, MA. April 10, 2001.
Digital Hollywood: “Video on the Internet: Making it Scale”
San Jose, CA. March 6, 2001.
ACM Multimedia 2000: “Enabling next generation streaming media networks”
Marina Del Ray, CA. November 1, 2000.
Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2000): “Towards robust distributed systems.” Portland, OR. July 2000.
Scalable Cluster Workshop: “The Golden Age of Clusters.” Monterey, California. November 1997. Also given at MIT, Stanford, UC Davis and Intel.
SIGMOD 1997: “The Inktomi Search Engine”. Tucson, Arizona. June 1997. See this paper
Usenix 1997 Annual Technical Conference: “Parallel Computing Meets the Web: The Inktomi Search Engine.” Anaheim, California. January 1997.
InfoTech 95: “Beyond InfoPad: Scalable Proxy-Based Network Computing.” Osaka, Japan. October 1995.

Invited Talks and Panels

Invited Speaker: Stanford University. “Lessons from Giant-Scale Systems” Released on video as: Multi-University Research Laboratory Lecture. Stanford, CA. February 16, 2000.
Invited Speaker: Storewidth 2002: Where Infinite Bandwidth and Storage Converge. “Delivering Content Across the Fibersphere.” Laguna Niguel, CA. March 26, 2002.
Invited Speaker: Nikkei Global Information Summit: Net Strategies for the Digital Divide Era, Tokyo, Japan. March 2000.
Invited Speaker: TTI Vanguard Conference on Scalability. “The Scalability of Search Engines.” Denver, CO. May 2003.
Invited Speaker: New America Foundation (Washington Policy Think Tank). “The Story of www.FirstGov.gov: Why Government Will Never Be the Same Again.” Washington, DC. November 28, 2000.
Invited Speaker: Infonortics Search Engine Conference 2000, “The continuing evolution of Internet searching: one stop, many sources.” Boston, April 2000.
Panelist: IDC 2001 European Telecoms Forum, Rome, Italy. February 2001.
Invited Speaker: TED8, “The Future of Search”. Invited Talk and Demo at TED8 (Technology, Entertainment and Design). Monterey, CA. February 1998.

2005

Combining Systems and Databases: A Search Engine Retrospective, Eric Brewer, Readings in Database Systems, Fourth Edition. Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker eds, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

2004

Highly-Available, Fault-Tolerant, Parallel Dataflows. Mehul A. Shah, Joe Hellerstein, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD, Paris, France. June 2004.
Hood: a Neighborhood Abstraction for Sensor Networks. Kamin Whitehouse, Cory Sharp, Eric Brewer, and David Culler. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '04). Boston, MA, June, 2004.
A Statistical Learning Approach to Failure Diagnosis. Mike Chen, Alice Zheng, Jim Lloyd, Michael Jordan, and Eric Brewer. International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), New York, NY, May 2004
Flexible Power Scheduling for Sensor Networks, Barbara Hohlt, Lance Doherty, and Eric Brewer. IEEE and ACM Third International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 04). April 2004.
The Emergence of Networking Abstractions and Techniques in TinyOS. Philip Levis, Samuel Madden, David Gay, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Eric Brewer and David Culler. Proceedings of NSDI 2004, San Francisco, CA. March 2004.
Path-based Failure and Evolution Management. Mike Chen, Anthony Accardi, Jim Lloyd, Emre Kiciman, Armando Fox, Dave Patterson, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of NSDI 2004. San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
TinyOS: An Operating System for Sensor Networks, Philip Levis, Sam Madden, David Gay, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Kamin Whitehouse, Alec Woo, David Gay, Jason Hill, Matt Welsh, Eric Brewer, and David Culler, to appear in Ambient Intelligence, Jan Rabaey editor.

2003

Capriccio: Scalable Threads for Internet Services, Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit, Feng Zhou, George C. Necula, and Eric Brewer. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP-19), Lake George, New York. October 2003
The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems, David Gay, Phil Levis, Rob von Behren, Matt Welsh, Eric Brewer, and David Culler. In Proceedings of Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2003, June 2003.
Why Events Are a Bad Idea (for high-concurrency servers). Rob von Behren, Jeremy Condit, and Eric Brewer. HotOS IX - Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Lihue, Hawaii, May 2003
Using Runtime Paths for Macroanalysis, Mike Chen, Emre Kiciman (Stanford), Anthony Accardi (Tellme Networks), Armando Fox (Stanford), and Eric Brewer. HotOS IX - Ninth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, Lihue, Hawaii, May 2003.
Flexible Power Scheduling for Sensor Networks, Barbara Hohlt, Lance Doherty, and Eric Brewer. UCB/CSD-03-1293. January 2003.
An Architecture for Internet Content Distribution as an Infrastructure Service. Yatin Chawathe, S. McCanne, and Eric Brewer. Appeared in Multimedia Systems Journal. 2003.
Value-based Web Caching. Sean C. Rhea, Kevin Liang and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the 12th WWW Conference (WWW 2003). Budapest, Hungary. 2003.

2002

A Composable Framework for Secure Multi-Modal Access to Internet Services from Post-PC Devices. Steven J. Ross, Jason L. Hill, Michael Y. Chen, Anthony D. Joseph, David E. Culler, Eric A. Brewer: MONET 7(5): 389-406. July 2002.
Active Certificates: A Framework for Delegation. Nikita Borisov and Eric Brewer. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2002. February 2002.
Active Connection Management in Internet Services. Mike Chen and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management (NOMS 2002), Florence, Italy, April 14-17, 2002.
Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Systems. Mike Chen, Emre Kiciman (Stanford), Eugene Fratkin (Stanford), Armando Fox (Stanford), and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), IPDS track, Washington, DC, June 23-26, 2002
Ninja: A Framework for Network Services, J. Robert von Behren, Eric Brewer, Nikita Borisov, Mike Chen, Matt Welsh, Josh MacDonald, Jeremy Lau, Steve Gribble, and David Culler. In Proceedings of the 2002 Usenix Annual Technical Conference, Monterey, CA. June 2002.
An Online Evolutionary Approach to Developing Internet Services. Mike Y. Chen, Emre Kiciman, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of SIGOPS European Workshop, Saint-Emilion, France, Sept 22-25, 2002.
Guest Editor introduction, CACM Special Issue on Search Engines. CACM 45(9): 40-41 (2002)

2001

SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services, Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP-18), Banff, Canada, October 2001.
The Ninja Architecture for Robust Internet-Scale Systems and Services, Steven D. Gribble, Matt Welsh, Rob von Behren, Eric A. Brewer, David Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R. Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R.H. Katz, Z.M. Mao, S. Ross, and B. Zhao. Computer Networks, Special Issue on Pervasive Computing, Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 473-497, March 2001. Award: Best Article of 2001 (!)
When everything is searchable. Eric A. Brewer. Communications of the ACM 44(3): 53-55. March 2001. [This was a special issue in which they invited 50 CS luminaries to write a two-page view into the future for their area; my topic was search engines.]
Lessons from Giant-Scale Services. Eric A. Brewer. IEEE Internet Computing. Vol. 5, No. 4. pp. 46-55. July/August 2001.

2000

A First Step Towards Automated Detection of Buffer Overrun Vulnerabilities. David Wagner, Jeffrey S. Foster, Eric A. Brewer, and Alexander Aiken. Proceedings of NDSS 2000. February 2000.
RMX: Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Networks. Yatin Chawathe, Steven McCanne, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
NinjaMail: The Design of a High-Performance Clustered, Distributed E-Mail System. J. Robert von Behren, Steven E. Czerwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, Eric A. Brewer, John Kubiatowicz: Proceedings of the ICPP Workshops 2000. Toronto, Canada. August 2000.
Scalable, Distributed Data Structures for Internet Service Construction. Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and David Culler. Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000). October 2000.
A Composable Framework for Secure Multi-Modal Access to Internet Services from Post-PC Devices, Steve Ross, Jason Hill, Mike Chen, Anthony Joseph, Dave Culler, and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), Monterey, California, December 7-8, 2000
A Design Framework for Highly Concurrent Systems, Matt Welsh, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, and David Culler. UC Berkeley Technical Report UCB/CSD-00-1108, April 2000.

1999

System support for scalable and fault tolerant Internet services. Yatin Chawathe and Eric A. Brewer. Distributed Systems Engineering. Vol. 6, No. 1, March 1999. [submitted]
Practical Computer Security. Eric Brewer, Ian Goldberg and David Wagner. Proceedings of the 1999 International Workshop on Cryptographic Techniques and E-Commerce (CryTEC '99), edited by Manuel Blum and C H Lee.

1998

Adapting to Network and Client Variation Using Active Proxies: Lessons and Perspectives. A. Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe and E. A. Brewer. IEEE Personal Communications, Special Issue on Adaptation, August 1998.
A Network Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing. E. A. Brewer, R. H. Katz et al. IEEE Personal Communications, October 1998.
Experience with TopGun Wingman: A Proxy-Based Web Browser for the 3Com PalmPilot. A. Fox, I. Goldberg, S. Gribble, D. C. Lee, A. Polito, and E. A. Brewer. Proceedings of Middleware '98, Lake District, England, September 1998.
System Support for Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Internet Services. Y. Chawathe and E. A. Brewer. Proceedings of Middleware '98, Lake District, England, September 1998.

A Proxy Architecture for Reliable Multicast in Heterogeneous Environments. Y. Chawathe, S. Fink, S. McCanne, and E. Brewer. Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '98, Bristol, England.
Self-Similarity in File Systems. S. Gribble, G. S. Manku, D. Roselli, E. A. Brewer, T. J. Gibson and E. Miller. Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics '98. Madison, Wisconsin. June 1998.

Search Engine Scalability [talk only]. Eric Brewer. Search Engines and Beyond: A Landmark Conference. 1998 Infonortics Search Engine Conference. Boston, MA. June 1998.
Long-Term Viability of Large-Scale Caches. Eric Brewer, Paul Gauthier and Dennis McEvoy. Proceedings of the Third International WWW Caching Workshop, Manchester, England, June 1998.

1997 and Earlier

Cluster-Based Scalable Network Services A. Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe and E. A. Brewer. Proceedings of SOSP '97, St. Malo, France, October 1997.
System Design Issues for Internet Middleware Services: Deductions from a Large Client Trace S. Gribble and E. A. Brewer. Proceedings of the 1997 USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '97), Monterey, CA, December 1997.
Orthogonal Extensions to the WWW User Interface Using Client-Side Technologies. A. Fox, S. Gribble, Y. Chawathe, A. Polito, A. C. Huang, B. Ling and E. A. Brewer. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '97). Banff, Canada. October 1997.
Clusters: Multiply and Conquer Eric Brewer. Data Communications. July 1997.
The HotBot Search Engine. [talk only] Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the American Library Association 1997 Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. June 1997.
A secure environment for untrusted helper applications: confining the wily hacker, Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, Randi Thomas and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the 1996 USENIX Security Symposium. Best Paper Award. 1996.
Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation. Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A Brewer, Elan Amir. Proceedings of ASPLOS 1996. Cambridge, MA. October 1996.
ATLAS: an infrastructure for global computing. J. Eric Baldeschwieler, Robert D. Blumofe and Eric Brewer. Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGOPS European Workshop. Connemara, Ireland. 1996.
High-Level Optimization via Automated Statistical Modeling, by Eric A. Brewer. Proceedings of PPoPP '95. This is the conference version of my dissertation (1.2MB).
Remote Queues: Exposing Network Queues for Atomicity and Optimization, by Eric A. Brewer, Frederic T. Chong, Lok T. Liu, John Kubiatowicz, and Shamik D. Sharma. Appeared at SPAA '95.
The Design of Wireless Portable Systems by Eric A. Brewer et al. This covers design issues in the InfoPad project. Appeared in the 1995 Spring COMPCON, March 1995, San Francisco, California.
Proteus: A High-Performance Parallel-Architecture Simulator, by Eric A. Brewer, Chrysanthos N. Dellarocas, Adrian Colbrook, and William E. Weihl. This is technical report MIT/LCS/TR-516; a shorter version appeared in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS and Performance '92 Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, May 1992.
How to Get Good Performance from the CM-5 Data Network, by Eric A. Brewer and Bradley C. Kuszmaul. This papers discusses by advantages of barriers, bandwidth matching, and interleaving on global communication patterns. It appeared in the Proceedings of the 1994 International Parallel Processing Symposium, Cancun, Mexico, April 1994. A version was also given at the First International Connection Machine User Group Conference in Sante Fe, New Mexico on February 18, 1994.
Scalable Expanders: Exploiting Hierarchical Random Wiring, by Eric A. Brewer, Frederic T. Chong and F. Thomson Leighton. Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on the Theory of Computing, Montreal, Canada. May 23-25, 1994.
Developing Parallel Applications Using High-Performance Simulation, by Eric A. Brewer and William E. Weihl. This appears in the Proceedings of the 1993 ONR/ACM Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Debugging, San Deigo, California, March 1993.
Strata: A Multi-Layer Communications Library, by Eric A. Brewer and Robert Blumofe. This will appear as an MIT Technical Report.
Pipes: Linguistic Support for Ordered Asynchronous Invocations, by Adrian Colbrook, Eric A. Brewer, Wilson C. Hsieh, Paul Wang, and William E. Weihl. This is technical report MIT/LCS/TR-539.
Packaging and Multiplexing of Hierarchical Scalable Expanders, by Frederic T. Chong , Eric A. Brewer, F. Thomson Leighton, and Thomas F. Knight, Jr.
This is a systems view of the metabutterfly, a scalable version of the multibutterfly network. We show how to acheive the fault tolerance and peformance of the multibutterfly in a scalable network with reasonable hardware requirements. The resulting network, the multiplexed metabutterfly, acheives substantially better performance and fault tolerance than the traditional butterfly, but requires minimal extra hardware. It is the first really practical version of the multibutterfly.
Multiprocessor Run-time Support for Fine-Grained, Irregular DAGs, by Frederic T. Chong , Shamik D. Sharma, Eric A. Brewer, and Joel Saltz.
This is on how to do fine-grain applications, such as sparse matrics, on machines with user-level communication (like the CM5). It has been submitted for publication.
Preventing Recursion Deadlock in Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems, by Eric A. Brewer and Carl A. Waldspurger. This appears in the Proceedings of the 1992 International Parallel Processing Symposium, Beverly Hills, California, March 1992. This is also technical report MIT/LCS/TR-526.

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