Talks by Jerome H. Saltzer

Talks by Jerome H. Saltzer for which there is a written record

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Remarks upon Accepting the 2010 National Computer System Security Award.
May 17, 2010.
Talk transcript: ASCII text, PDF.
A Systems Approach to Teaching Computer Systems. (Honorary author; actually by Frans Kaashoek.)
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, (June 2006), page 2. (A one-page summary of the keynote address delivered by Frans Kaashoek.)
Summary: PDF. Also available in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Slides, by Frans Kaashoek: PDF.
We thought we had this stuff figured out back in the 1970s. What went wrong?
Keynote speech at the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Secure Software Engineering (ISSSE 2006), March 13, 2006, Washington D.C.
Abstract: ASCII text. Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text.
Coping with Complexity.
Invited talk given at the ACM Seventeenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 14, 1999. A brief summary by Jay Lepreau and Eric Eide appeared in Operating Systems Review 34, 2 (April 2000), pages 7-8.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: PDF. The summary is available in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
What has changed?
Talk given at a workshop on security and languges, DEC System Research Center, Palo Alto, California, 30 October 1997.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text.
Replication for long-term persistence. Talk given at
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, October 24, 1995.
- Stanford University Digital Library group, October 25, 1995.
- Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, October 26, 1995.
Slides: PDF.
Storage, the Unnoticed Revolution.
Invited talk given at an open session of the Computer Science & Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Washington, D. C., May 24, 1993. Also given at Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, August 25, 1993.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the CSTB talk: PDF.
Technology, Networks, and the Library of the Future.
Talk given at:
- Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, California, ca. December 1989.
- MIT EECS Colloquium, October 28, 1991.
- International Conference on the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Institut en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Paris, December 8 1992.
- IBM Research Laboratory, Hawthorne, New York, February 26, 1993.
Slides: PDF. Additional slides used in research presentations: PDF.
Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text.
There is also a closely related paper.
Fault-Tolerance in Very Large Archival Systems
Presented at Fourth SIGOPS European Workshop, September 4, 1990, Bologna. A brief summary, by Ozalp Babaoglu, appeared in Operating Systems Reveiw 25, 1 (January 1991), page 24.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text. Babaoglu's OSR summary of the talk is available in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required). A short paper was published in the proceedings of the workshop.
Some unsolved problems of distributed systems management as seen from Project Athena.
Talk given at the Workshop on Progress in Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Systems Management, German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD), Berlin, April 19, 1989.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text. Abstract: ASCII text (misdated 1988, correct year is 1989). The abstract can also be found in the Springer Verlag book of papers presented at the workshop.
Lessons from Project Athena.
Talk given at:
- Hewlett-Packard Distributed Computing Symposium, Palo Alto, January 28, 1988.
- Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science Department, Purdue University, March 21, 1988.
- The Gaschnig/Oakley Memorial lecture, Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon University, April 13, 1988.
- Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, May 18, 1988.
- Digital Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, June 30, 1988.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Imperial College London, April 12, 1989.
- Seminar, Institut Nationale de la Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, France, May 5, 1989.
- Computer Science Colloquium, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, May 12, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, May 21, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, May 23, 1989.
- Seminar, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, May 26, 1989.
- Seminar, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, May 30, 1989.
- MIT Club of Northern California, Palo Alto, September 28, 1989.
Abstract: ASCII text. CMU lecture version: PDF. Later abstract: ASCII text; PDF. Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: ASCII text; PDF.
Additional slides used in some venues:
  Authentication: PDF. Notes: ASCII text.
  Technology developments: PDF.
  Athena applications: PDF.
  Athena status: PDF.
HP and CMU both videotaped the talk, but neither videotape seems to be available on-line.
Lessons Learned at Project Athena.
Presented at the Second SIGOPS European Workshop, September 8-10, 1986, Amsterdam. A brief summary, by Sape Mullender, appeared in Operating Systems Review 21, 1 (January 1987), page 55.
Advance abstract (April 9, 1986): Scanned page images in PDF. The ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required) contains both the same abstract and Mullender's OSR summary of the abstract.
Notes for the talk prepared September 2, 1986, with hand-written later additions: Scanned page images in PDF.
Issues of Scale at Project Athena
Presented at the First SIGOPS European Workshop, January 28-30, 1984, Zurich.
Notes prepared for talk: ASCII text. Slide: PDF.
A brief summary of the session in which this talk was given is available on-line in the ACM Digital Library (fee or subscription required).
Community Networks and Interorganization links.
Talk given at:
   IBM Europe Institute 1983, Grassau, Germany, June 29, 1983.
   M.I.T. Industrial Liaison Program Symposium on Networked Computer Systems, May 14, 1984.
   IBM Systems Research Institute, New York City, March 20, 1985.
Slides: PDF .
Technology, Bureaucracy Avoidance, and Distributed Computer Systems.
Alternate title: Changing Technology and Distributed System Structure.
Talk given at:
- The 1982 George Forsythe Memorial Lectures, Stanford University Computer Science Department, January 25, 1982.
- The First Columbian Conference on Computer Science, Informatics, and Related Sciences, Bogota, March 23, 1982.
- M.I.T. Industrial Liason Program Symposium on Personal Computers, Networks, and Office Automation, Zurich, June 8, 1981 and Paris, February 16, 1982.
- NEC Systems Laboratory, Tokyo, January 17, 1983.
Abstract: ASCII text. Slides: PDF.
Current Research Activities.
Presentation at the INRIA 1981 Workshop on the Design and Implementation of Complete Distributed Systems, Rocquencourt, France, April 6, 1981.
Abstract: ASCII text.
Source Routing for Campus Networks.
Presentation at the IFIP Working Group 6.4 International Workshop on Local Networks, Zurich, August 27-29, 1980.
Slides: PDF
There is also a closely related paper.
Commentary on Distributed Systems.
Invited comments delivered at the Seventh ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, Asilomar, California, December 11, 1979.
Slides: PDF. Notes prepared for the talk: Web page.
The Impact of Modern Technology on System Design.
An early version of the talk "Changing Technology and Distributed System Structure", listed above. See that talk for abstract and slides. This version was given at
- National Centre for Software Development and Computing Techniques, Tata Institue of Fundamental Research, Bombay, April 2, 1979.
- IIT Delhi, January 16, 1980.
- IIT Kanpur, January 18, 1980.
- TCS Workshop on Distributed Systems, Bombay, January 21, 1980.
- IIT Madras, January 30, 1980.
- IIT Bangalore, January 289, 1980
- Computing Society of India, Hyderabad, January 31, 1980
- Siemens Corp., Munich, June 1, 1980.
Pragmatic Approaches to Obtaining Correct Operating Systems.
Alternate title: Protecting Data—the State of the Art.
Given at
- Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, September 20, 1976.
- Conference on Data Privacy and Data Security, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, September 21, 1976.
- IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, September 24, 1976.
- Department of Computer Science Colloquium, Rutgers University, November 11, 1976.
- Industrieanlaagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, January 10, 1977.
- Central Computer Agency, London, January 12, 1977.
Slides: PDF. Abstract for the Rutgers talk: PDF.
See also the paper on which these talks were based.
Computer Systems: Future Research Directions.
Talk given at an M.I.T. Industrial Liason Office symposium on the Multics System, January 22, 1971. The talk was recorded and transcribed. An edited version was distributed locally as Multics document M0125, April 2, 1971, and after more editing published in RCA Engineer 17, 1 (June 1971) pages 23-24.
M0125 version—scan and OCR of paper original: PDF.
Slides: PDF.
The Multics Programming Environment.
Talk given at a meeting of the Boston Chapter of the ACM, October 29, 1969, and again at an M.I.T. Industrial Liason Office symposium on the Multics System, January 21, 1971. The talk at the symposium was recorded and transcribed.
Draft of first 3 pages of transcription of symposium talk, May 16, 1972: Scanned page images in PDF.
Undated rough transcription of remainder of symposium talk, with handwritten corrections by the transcriber: Scanned page images in PDF.
Slides: PDF.
Organization of the Multics Supervisor.
Talk given at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, May 3, 1967.
Abstract: ASCII text Slides: PDF
The Multics Concept.
Talk given at Japan Electronic Industry Development Association, Tokyo, August 16, 1966. (Opening talk in a series of eight lectures about Multics delivered August 16-24, 1966.)
Notes taken by Hideo Aiso of the Electrotechnical Laboratory: Scanned page images in PDF. A booklet with the title Multics System, containing transcripts of all eight lectures and distributed by the Electrotechical Laboratory, is available only in Japanese, and is not on-line.

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