Google Faculty Summit 2009: Frontiers in Systems Research

Google Tech Talk
July 30, 2009

ABSTRACT

Google Faculty Summit 2009: Global Connection: Inform and Empower

The Desktop: Frontiers in Systems Research, Presented by Brad Chen

Each year Google hosts leading academics from universities across the globe though our Faculty Summit program. Faculty Summits are designed to provide researchers with a chance to learn more about what Google does in each region and how we support university programs, as well as provide valuable networking time for academics and engineers.

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Science & Technology

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• tech
• talk
• faculty
• summit
• 2009
• systems

[misternightdrive]

NaCl = Native Client.

Wonder if they'll name it 'Salt'?

[pierre606]

We've been in this business a long time. We are c++ developers and we have written billions of lines of really interesting code. We cannot run any of it on the net. Here there is speed, security and all the wonders that c++ brought to the computer industry and that includes every operation system. Now we have the chance to actually share our stuff.

[Plutonar]

I wonder if the W3C will adopt it. x86 may be the de facto standard for instruction sets, but on the other hand, if NaCl becomes part of what's known as "the web", the web becomes less cross-platform, if ever-so-slightly.

Of course, Google having solved a decades-old computer science problem with this means Internet Explorer will have to incorporate it sooner or later regardless. Let's hope for sooner.

[tuseroni]

@misternightdrive how the hell did i forget sodium chloride was salt...ive been making jokes about the name being "sodium chloride"

now i feel dumb...

[Aexorzist]

@ZerqTM C# is no native code, so no. You would have to embed an entire .NET runtime to make it work.

[cminusminus1]

This starting to sound very much like Sun's road (from ST) to Java (and, eventually, .net)... with java having more health benefits than salt...

And these guys have no crosstalk with Android group? really? why?

[hyhu84]

His dad is asian, how old can his dad be ?

[heavensrevenge]

1) The name you mentioned who was absent relating to visionary ideas is one person I need to talk to regarding if he actually thought of ChromeOS after I spread my own idea which I called ToxProX when chrome was first revealed or not.

2) Concerning NaCL I'm wondering if there has been any effort or testing regarding running the sandbox using Intel/AMD on-chip virtualization instructions for bounding access to allowed resources directly on-chip.

[shiftedstuff]

It'll be nice to get Flash using this!

[ZerqTM]

this will be fun to play around with :3

as long as i can code C# in it.. (i like my syntax sugar)