Butler Lampson: Systems Challenges

• Systems that work

  • Meeting their specs
  • Always available
  • Adapting to changing environment
  • Evolving while they run
  • Made from unreliable components
  • Growing without practical limit

• Credible simulations or analysis

• Writing good specs

• Testing

• Performance

  • Understanding when it doesn’t matter

“Computer Systems Research-Past and Future”

Keynote address,

17th SOSP,

Dec. 1999

Butler Lampson

Microsoft

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