Amit Chavan

Engineer @awscloud | PhD @umdcs

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

@adityagp Hearty Congratulations Aditya!

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

@TweetAtAKK @UCSanDiego @ucsd_cse @UCSDJacobs @HDSIUCSD Congratulations Arun!!

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

@manaswisaha @Google @uwcse @jonfroehlich Congratulations!!!

[Martin Kleppmann @martinkl]

I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged.

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

A look at reasoning under uncertainty -- https://t.co/aeZjHmu393

"Uncertainty about the world doesn’t imply uncertainty about the best course of action!"

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

This, from @HarvardHBS, is the best analysis I've seen on what happened in Italy. https://t.co/MKjDR8W9lo

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

The Amazon Builders' Library, a collection of articles that take readers under the hood of how Amazon architects, releases & operates technology, written by Amazon's senior builders is now available. #reInvent https://t.co/5aOH4vwKbV

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!

[Danilo Poccia @danilop]

It was really interesting going through most of the options here! AWS Lake Formation – Now Generally Available https://t.co/tlih75V1bL #AWS #DataLake

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

“We would prefer not to foment genocide in Myanmar, but content moderation simply does not scale.”

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

How to speak Silicon Valley-- https://t.co/1oG7UxEsbF

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, the fathers of #DeepLearning, receive the 2018 #ACMTuringAward for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing today. https://t.co/KQTKkVI2om

[Amit Chavan @seeachavan]

@manaswisaha @projsidewalk Congratulations!

[Manaswi Saha @manaswisaha]

Our @projsidewalk paper is one of the best papers this year!!!! Ecstatic to present it at CHI! Wohoo!!! 🥳🥳🥳 #chi2019

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

AWS Lake Formation (coming soon) builds up a secure data lake in days. Ingest, catalog, clean, transform & secure your data. Combine analytics with EMR, Redshift, Athena, Sagemaker & QuickSight! #reInvent https://t.co/hZEEfpUGH4

[Franck Nijimbere @nijfranck]

When the deadline comes too close

[Paul Pearce @paul_pearce]

With great pleasure @apanda and I are proud to introduce DeepCoinX. A new crypto-currency where the proof-of-work is a trained neural network architecture and set of weights. Model performance is verified via SGX Remote Attestation. Please stay tuned for our ICO.

[J. Brian Byrd Lab @thebyrdlab]

The Real Final Exam, by the late Donald Coffey, PhD. One of the best things I've ever read. My thanks to @Prof_Riggins for sharing this gem of guidance + inspiration

[A Small Fiction @ASmallFiction]

"Are we alone in the universe?" she asked.

"Yes," said the Oracle.

"So there's no other life out there?"

"There is. They're alone too."

[Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) @andy_pavlo]

.@DRichardHipp wins the #SIGMOD17 Systems Award for #SQLite. Previous winners were @postgresql & @MonetDB