From 526945e7145a9ae9f3eea0b3279f9ad72fe7e404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Burns <m4burns@uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:42:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add Bill Cowan's talk.

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     CD or DVD should you so choose.
     <ul class="media">
 
+<mediaitem title="Multi-processor Real-time Systems">
+  <abstract>
+    <p>
+      Programming systems that obey hard real-time constraints is difficult.
+      So is programming multiple CPUs that interact to solve a single
+      problem.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      On rare occasions it is possible to mix two difficult problems to create
+      one easy problem and multi-CPU real-time is, on the face of it,
+      just such an occasion. Give each deadline its own CPU and it will
+      never be missed. This intuition is, unfortunately, incorrect, which does
+      not, however, prevent it being tried in many real-time systems.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      For three decades, fourth year students have been exploring this problem
+      in CS452, using multiple tasks (virtual CPUs) running on a single CPU.
+      It is now time to consider whether modern developments in CPU
+      architecture make it possible to use multiple CPUs in CS452 given the
+      practical constraint of a twelve week semester.
+    </p>
+
+    <p>
+      This talk will describe the nature of computation typical of real-time
+      systems, architectural solutions currently employed in the course, and
+      possible architectures for multi-CPU systems.
+    </p>
+  </abstract>
+  <presentor>Bill Cowan</presentor>
+  <thumbnail file="wmcowan_multi_processor_realtime-thumb-small.jpg" />
+  <mediafile file="wmcowan_multi_processor_realtime.mp4" type="Talk (x264)" />
+  <mediafile file="wmcowan_multi_processor_realtime.mpg" type="Talk (MPG)" />
+  <flvfile   file="wmcowan_multi_processor_realtime.flv" />
+  <other>
+    <p>
+      Ehsan Akhgari has contributed to the Mozilla project for more than 5
+      years.  He has worked on various parts of Firefox, including the user
+      interface and the rendering engine.  He originally implemented Private
+      Browsing in Firefox.  Right now he's focusing on the editor component
+      in the Firefox engine.
+    </p>
+  </other>
+</mediaitem>
+
 <mediaitem title="How Browsers Work">
   <abstract>
     <p>