Perhaps you're referring to Prof. Ken Birman, inventor of Paxos and slayer of CAP? I could barely contain myself at his recent MesosCon keynote[1,2]. [1] https

Perhaps you're referring to Prof. Ken Birman, inventor of Paxos and slayer of CAP? I could barely contain myself at his recent MesosCon keynote[1,2]. [1] https://mesosconna2016.sched.org/event/6ljt/keynote-a-real-time-cloud-for-the-internet-of-things-professor-ken-birman-cornell-university https://mesosconna2016.sched.org/event/6ljt/keynote-a-real-t... [2] http://go.linuxfoundation.org/mesoscon-north-america-2016-videos http://go.linuxfoundation.org/mesoscon-north-america-2016-vi...