A.M. Turing Award recipient and MIT Professor Barbara Liskov as a distinguished speaker at ETSIINF

We are delighted to present Prof. Barbara Liskov, one of the pioneers in the field of computer science, as a new honorary doctor of UPM. Prof. Liskov will deliver a conference about Software Transactional Objects and Multicore Programming

A.M. Turing Award recipient and MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, one of the pioneers in the field of computer science, will deliver a conference on Monday, June 11 about Multicore Programming. Previously, on June 8, Prof. Liskov will be awarded an honorary doctorate by UPM, the highest honour of academic excellence, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of ETS Ingenieros Informáticos. 

Multicore computers provide large numbers of processors that all share main memory. Applications running on such computers need to use parallelism to achieve good performance, and this is difficult for applications such as databases where synchronization is needed to control concurrent access to shared data. The talk describes two projects that show how to do this. The first is a new in-memory database system called Silo that provides very high performance by being careful about cache management and concurrency control.  The second is a new transaction support system called STO, which builds on the ideas from Silo to enable other transactional applications to achieve good performance through the use of transaction-aware data types.

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