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June 1-5, 2009

Stanford University

Thursday 4 June 9:00am

Location: Old Union - Clubhouse

Speaker: Jim H Morris (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley)

Title: AFS is 25!

Abstract:

I'll try to answer a few questions in twenty minutes.

1. Why we built it.
2. How it allowed total mobility -- what needed to be added?
3. How it fit with Athena.
4. Why did WWW beat global AFS?
5. What concepts, e.g. call-backs, are/can be used elsewhere?

Slides: PowerPoint PDF