Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition w/ Evelina, Eric, Ines, & Caitie

Meetup: http://bit.ly/29hkDkI Papers: - Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search — http://bit.ly/1P2dD7H - Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa — http://bit.ly/29tCFFp - IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct — http://bit.ly/29tC9XP - Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures... — http://bit.ly/1oNFHjs Audio: http://bit.ly/29iZZ92 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by Two Sigma (@twosigma) and QCon NewYork ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Talks --------- - Evelina Gabasova presenting on Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search - 1:10 - Eric Brewer presenting on Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa - 21:49 - Ines Sombra presenting on IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct - 45:18 - Caitie McCaffrey presenting on Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures... - 1:07:45 Bios ------- - Evelina (Gabasova) is a machine learning researcher working in bioinformatics, trying to reverse-engineer cancer at University of Cambridge. Outside of academia, she also speaks at developer conferences and user groups about functional programming, machine learning and data science. She writes a blog at http://www.evelinag.com. - Dr. (Eric) Brewer joined Google in May 2011 and leads the company’s compute infrastructure design. He focuses on all aspects of Internet­ based systems including cloud computing, scalability, containers, and storage. As a researcher, Dr. Brewer has led projects on scalable servers, network infrastructure, IoT, and the CAP Theorem. He has also led work on technology for developing regions, with projects in India, Indonesia, and Kenya among others, and including communications, power, and health care. In 1996, he co­founded Inktomi Corporation with a Berkeley grad student and helped lead it onto the NASDAQ 100. In 2000, working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create USA.gov, the official portal of the Federal government. - Ines Sombra is a Distributed Systems Engineer at Fastly, where she spends her time helping the Web go faster. Ines holds an M.S. in Computology with an emphasis on Cheesy 80’s Rock Ballads. She has a fondness for steak, fernet, and a pug named Gordo. In a previous life she was a Data Engineer. Follow Ines @randommood. - Caitie McCaffrey is a Backend Brat and Distributed Systems Diva at Twitter. Prior to that she built services and systems that power the entertainment industry at 343 Industries, Microsoft Game Studios, and HBO. While at 343 Industries she partnered with the eXtreme Computing Group in Microsoft Research to productionize Orleans as part of her work rewriting the Halo Services. Caitie has a degree in Computer Science from Cornell University She maintains a blog at CaitieM.com and frequently discusses technology and entertainment on Twitter @Caitie.