TCS Excellence in CS Week - Decentralized and Cooperative Computing January 4, 2009

TECS Week is organized to bring the highest quality education in Computer Science to the most gifted young computer scientists in developing countries.

TECS Week is jointly conducted by International Institute for Software Technology (IIST), United Nations University and Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS).

Topic: Decentralized and Cooperative Computing

Decentralized and Cooperative Computing is the topic for this year’s TECS Week. This course will cover a broad spread of issues, including design of decentralized, cooperative systems that can operate correctly even when individual nodes deviate from their specifications because of failures, errors in software configuration, malicious attacks, or even selfish behavior resulting from nodes attempting to maximize their own utility; design and analysis of peer-to-peer and social networks; as well as challenges in designing protocols for the Internet - a very large decentralized and cooperative computing platform.

Speakers

* Lorenzo Alvisi (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
* Peter Druschel (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany)
* S Keshav (University of Waterloo, Canada)
* Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
* Guru Parulkar (Stanford University, USA)

Location map: http://www.tcs-trddc.com/TECS%2709/index_TECSWeek%2709.htm

Selection

Selection is competitive as the number that can be accommodated is limited. The aim is to ensure that those who will benefit most from participation in TECS Week 2008 are selected. Applicants who wish to participate in TECS Week 2009 need to apply at TECS Week 2009 before 7 November 2008.

Please note that Participation is through Online Registration only.



Contact

Ms. Rekha Tulsani
Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC)
Tel.: 91 20 6608 6265 / 6608 6333
Fax: 91 20 6608 6399

Email: TECS( tecs at tcs dot com)

Official Website: http://www.tcs-trddc.com/TECS%2709/index_TECSWeek%2709.htm