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updated media to include alextsay and googlefiber talks

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CD or DVD should you so choose.
<ul class="media">
<mediaitem title="Distributed File Systems">
<abstract>
<p>
Alex Tsay from AeroFS will talk about the high availability distributed
file systems they develop. The CAP Theorem outlined the fundamental
limitations of a distributed system. When designing a distributed system,
one has to constantly be aware of the trade-off between consistency
and availability. Most distributed systems are designed with consistency
in mind. However, AeroFS has decided to build a high-availability file
system instead. In this tech talk, I'll be presenting an overview of
AeroFS file system, advantages and challenges of a high-availability
file system, and examine the inner workings of AeroFS's core syncing
algorithm.
</p>
</abstract>
<presentor>Alex Tsay</presentor>
<thumbnail file="alex-tsay-aerofs.jpg" />
<mediafile file="alex-tsay-aerofs-2015-talk.mp4" type="Talk (x264)" />
</mediaitem>
<mediaitem title="Google Fiber: Speed is Hard">
<abstract>
<p>
Our speaker, Avery Pennarun, will share some not-very-secret secrets from
the team creating GFiber's open source router firmware, including some
discussion of wifi, marketing truthiness, the laws of physics, something
about coaxial cables, embedded ARM processors, queuing theory, signal
processing, hardware design, and kernel driver optimization. If you're
lucky, he may also rant about poor garbage collector implementations.
Also, there will be at least one slide containing one of those swooshy
circle-and-arrow lifecycle diagrams, we promise.
</p>
</abstract>
<presentor>Avery Pennarun</presentor>
<thumbnail file="google-speed-is-hard.png" />
<mediafile file="speed-is-hard-at-uwaterloo.pdf" type="Talk (PDF)" />
</mediaitem>
<mediaitem title="In Pursuit of the Travelling Salesman">
<abstract>
<p>