Update README.md

dsg-uwaterloo · May 18, 2023 · e179cdf · e179cdf
1 parent db1d7ec
commit e179cdf
Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ The topics covered in the workshop include, but are not limited to:
 The workshop will have one keynote and 3-4 accepted papers with sufficient time for discussions.
 
 **Keynote Speaker:** Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich
+
 *Title*: The promise and the reality of serverless
+
 *Abstract*: Serverless has captured the attention of researchers and practitioners alike for its promise of addressing several of the inefficiencies of current cloud computing platforms. Cloud providers tout it as a more efficient, simpler, and flexible way to deploy a restricted set of applications over large scale computing facilities. Some researchers consider it the next step in the evolution of the cloud and nothing sort of a revolutionary new computing platform. Many different versions of serverless, commercial and open source, are appearing, often with many different characteristics. There is also a growing body of research exploring multiple aspects of FaaS platforms and its applicability to a variety of use cases. In this talk I will argue that, on the research side, it is important to transcend the platforms available today and think about serverless in a much broader context, especially when the use case is data analytics. Rather than trying to adapt data processing to the quirks and vagaries of today’s offerings, we should explore how serverless should be to better serve the needs of data analytics and related use cases.  In the talk I will argue for a different approach to serverless data analytics, one more focused on making serverless work for data scientist rather than on removing features, limiting scope, or hacking around restrictions of current offerings.  
+
 *Bio*: Gustavo Alonso is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of ETH Zurich where he is a member of the Systems Group. He graduated from the Technical University of Madrid, Spain and did his MSc and PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was a research scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California before joining ETH. His research interests include data management, distributed systems, cloud computing architecture, and hardware acceleration through reconfigurable computing. Gustavo has received 4 Test-of-Time Awards for his research in databases, software runtimes, middleware, and mobile computing. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a Distinguished Alumnus of the Department of Computer Science of UC Santa Barbara, and has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS (EuroSys).
 
 ### Paper Submission & Evaluation