John joined HP Labs in 1982 with a PhD from Cambridge University where his
thesis work won the BCS Technology Award and the Computer Journal's
[Maurice] Wilkes prize. He became an HP Fellow and an ACM Fellow in 2002,
with wide-ranging interests in distributed systems and self-managing systems;
he's most well-known for his work on storage management, for which he was
given the HP Labs Birnbaum prize in 2003.

He is an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University; has participated
in about a dozen top-tier program committees; been program chair for SOSP'99
and EuroSys'09; and was an assistant editor for ACM TOCS. John has authored
or co-authored about 40 refereed publications and submitted about 60
invention disclosures to HP, of which about half have so far been granted
patents.  (His publications can currently be found at
http://www.e-wilkes.com/john/work-publications.html<http://www.e-wilkes.com/john>.)

He joined Google full-time in mid-November 2008, is based in Mountain View,
CA.

In his spare time he continues, stubbornly, trying to learn how to blow
glass.

SWS   Info

Expert Audience

English

60 Minutes

Saarbrücken

Starting in 1994/5, the Storage Systems Program at HP Labs
embarked on a decade-long journey to automate the management of enterprise
storage systems by means of a technique we initially called
attribute-managed storage. The key idea was to provide declarative
specifications of workloads and their needs, and of storage devices and
their capabilities, and to automate the mapping of one to the other. One of
many outcomes of the project was a specification language we called Rome -
hence the title of this talk, which offers a retrospective on the overall
approach and some of the lessons we learned along the way.

Claudia Richter

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