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</eventitem>
<eventitem date="2015-01-15" time="6:00 PM" room="MC 2065"
title="Google Tech Talk">
title="Tech Talk: Google Fiber Internet: The Messy Bits">
<short>
<p>The CSC and Google will be holding a joint tech talk. Talk title and
abstract details coming soon.
<p>
Google Fiber's Internet service offers 1000 Mbps internet to a few cities:
that's 100x faster than a typical home connection. The problem with going
so fast is it moves the bottleneck around: for the first time, your Internet
link may be faster than your computer, your wifi, or even your home LAN.
</p>
<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>
</short>
<abstract>
<p>The CSC and Google will be holding a joint tech talk. Talk title and
abstract details coming soon.
<p>
Google Fiber's Internet service offers 1000 Mbps internet to a few cities:
that's 100x faster than a typical home connection. The problem with going
so fast is it moves the bottleneck around: for the first time, your Internet
link may be faster than your computer, your wifi, or even your home LAN.
</p>
<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>
<p>
About Avery Pennarun<br>
Avery graduated from the University of Waterloo in Computer Engineering,
started some startups and some open source projects, and now works at Google
Fiber on a small team building super fast wifi routers, TV settop boxes, and
the firmware that runs on them. He lives in New York.
</p>
</abstract>
</eventitem>