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You should mention it is the Ecole Polytechnique... de Montreal. Usually, when people say "Ecole Polytechnique" they mean the original one. It's like saying yo
by relyio 9y ago
You should mention it is the Ecole Polytechnique... de Montreal. Usually, when people say "Ecole Polytechnique" they mean the original one.
It's like saying you went to MIT (Minnesota Institute of Technology).
Other than this small nit, great article.
- _delirium 9y agoFwiw, in recent years the school has preferred the more distinctive name Polytechnique Montréal, rather than either École Polytechnique or École Polytechnique de Montréal, although there are plenty of materials not yet using the new branding.
- jvns 9y agofixed! I thought it was really cool that the DORSAL lab (http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/en http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/en) is doing such interesting and practical linux research -- I often think of academics as living 'up in the clouds', but it seemed like they were contributing a lot to the Linux kernel and building really useful tracing tools. So a bunch of people in academia are doing super practical systems work & writing papers about it and I think that's awesome. It made me want to read more academic systems papers. > Research done at the lab concentrates on improving the performance, reliability and resilience of distributed, cloud and multi-core systems.