Abstract:

The first magnetic disk drive was created in 1956 by Reynold Johnson and his team at IBM. It consisted of 50 magnetic disks, each with diameter of 24 inches and capacity of 100KB.  In comparison, an iPod has a single magnetic disk with diameter of 1.8 inches and capacity of 160GB. While storage density and access performance were key drivers in the revolution in information storage; the recent key technology drivers in information storage are: the integration between information storage and communications and the creation of portable and energy-efficient storage. I will present some of my past and current information storage related research and technology projects, including, storage reliability, storage virtualization and solid state storage for the enterprise, as well as discuss future challenges.

Bio:

Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He served as the founding Director of the Caltech Information Science and Technology (IST) program. His research focuses on the design of information systems and the analysis of biological circuits and systems. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1985, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He has an extensive industrial experience, including working with IBM Research where he participated in the design and implementation of the first IBM parallel computer. He was a co-founder and chairman of Rainfinity (acquired by EMC), a spin-off company from Caltech that focused on software products for management of network information storage systems. He is an IEEE fellow, and his awards include the National Science Foundation Young Investigator award and the Sloan fellowship. He published more than 200 journal and conference papers in his areas of interests and he holds 28 US patents. His publications were recognized by awards, including, a selection as an ISI highly cited researcher, winning the 2005 S. A. Schelkunoff Transactions prize paper award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation society and the Best Paper Award in the 2003 Design Automation Conference.