Computer Science Talks

One of the most significant decisions scientists face is choosing whether to pursue a career in industry or academia. While this decision is...

The digital revolution in society had its starting point with the emergence of the personal computer in the early 1980s. The second ste...

Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed and public digital ledger that uses hundred of computers to prove that something, e.g., a transa...

Many people connected to the computer business in several distinct roles (programmers, architects, and many more) don't know the concep...

The Hadoop ecosystem consists of several Hadoop related projects that address specific areas like distributed file system, distributed prog...

This paper presents a comparison of MapReduce vs Spark. Nowadays, Spark is becoming very popular and it can achieve in general better resu...

In the OSDI'16, it was introduced a new fault tolerant approach called XFT to build reliable and secure distributed systems to tolerate...