Wednesday / CS Seminar

October 30th / 12:00 PM

Hybrid / Mudd 3514

Speaker

Lars Bergstrom, Google

Talk Title

Co-design and evolution of mobile hardware and operating systems

Abstract

Every year, owners of mobile devices want them to cost less, last longer, be upgraded for longer, increase security, and to run more demanding applications and services. In this talk, focusing on the Android ecosystem I'll cover some examples of how we work all the way from instruction set and hardware architecture up to operating system and application features in order to deliver on these demands. I will also discuss some of the critical gaps where today there are opportunities to greatly improve the way we measure, model and improve the products and software we design and build.

Biography

Lars Bergstrom is a Director of Engineering at Google on the Android team, working on their platform tools and libraries. He manages the tools that update the Android operating system as well as the Java, C/C++, and Rust toolchains and the supporting libraries. He also serves as Google's Corporate Director to RISC-V International and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Rust Foundation. Before Google, he was at Mozilla Research, initially contributing to the Servo browser project and directing the integration of Rust into Firefox and the partner ecosystem. Later, he led Mozilla's AR and VR work, shipping software and building OEM relationships on many different devices. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 2013.

Research/Interest Areas: Programming Languages

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