Computer Scientists in Practice

Cedric studied Computer Science and Physics at Saarland University and, received his Ph.D. on parallel computing architecture in 2000. He is working at IBM Research and Development Lab near Stuttgart currently as the chief architect for AI acceleration on IBM enterprise servers. He will be talking about his journey that started with the development of […]

Dirk studied electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech and TU Braunschweig and in 2002 received a Ph.D. on modeling and design of embedded systems. He held several positions in R&D (software component technology, scheduling analysis, software architectures for multi-cores, autonomous systems design) and product management (embedded software engineering tools). In his current role as […]

Abstract: If you measure success by the number of deployments, SQLite dominates the database world. There are more instances of SQLite running today than all other database engines combined. Why is this? How did SQLite come to be so widely used? What makes SQLite different?This talk attempts to answer those questions by reviewing the unusual […]