Speaker: Chak Man Li, Solon Mobile applications often need to perform long time operations like downloading data or intensive computations without affecting the user experience. These tasks need to be run in other threads but thread managing is hard and tedious. In this talk, I will introduce some easy-to-use classes in Android with sample codes […]
Month: February 2016
An Introduction of Apache Spark
Come and join us on Friday. Speakers: LYU Zishen, YAO Fangjie Abstract: Big data is a buzzword nowadays, many companies use big data processing platforms to tackle big data problems. Apache Spark has quite some advantages compared to others, and is rapidly becoming the compute engine of choice for big data. This talk covers Apache […]
Writing a Microkernel in Rust
In January 29th, our old friend Wei Tang gave a talk, “Writing a Microkernel in Rust” in OIL. It was really inspiring and many of you who are interested in Kernel have come to OIL. Thanks for your participation! For your reference and for those who could not show up that night, here are the slides […]