Lauritz Thamsen
Computer systems faculty at Glasgow, driving research on resource-efficient and carbon-aware distributed computing systems, @glasgowc3lab.bsky.social, lauritzthamsen.org ☁️💻🌱
- 🔈 Deadline extended to 19 February (AoE)!
- 1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!
- Submissions for #TDIS2026 are due in 3.5 weeks. If you have new ideas, methods, or tools around how #experimentation with #IoT or #edge systems could be improved, please take a look at our CfP. We are looking for workshop papers (4/6 pages) by 5 Feb to be presented in #Edinburgh on 27 Apr. 📱 🖥️ 🛰️ 🚉 ⚡
- 1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!
- 1/2: We are organizing #TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the IoT/edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again alongside ACM #EuroSys, which will take place at the end of April 2026 in #Edinburgh!
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- Reposted by Lauritz Thamsen📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenOkay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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- We had a fantastic away day as the Carbon-Conscious Computing lab (lauritzthamsen.org/lab/) of the University of Glasgow last week! 💻 ☁️ 🌱 In keeping with our mission, we took our bikes out for a ride around the Isle of Bute! 🚉 ⛴️ 🌊
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- I had a great time at IEEE #ICDCS 2025. First time that I attended a conference without a talk or helping to organize, so this was a new experience! Of course, also rather nice to attend a top conference after 10 minutes on public transport (and after dropping off the wee one at nursery too ☺️)
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- Very happy to share that I won the Early-Career #Teaching Excellence #Award of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow! ☺️👨🏫🏰🎓✨ Longer post: www.linkedin.com/posts/laurit... @uofgcompsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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- 1/4: If you are at #IEEE #CCGrid 2025 in #Tromsø next week, catch Jonathan, Fabian, and Kathleen (@westkath.bsky.social) presenting joint work! 📰🧵👇 #CCGrid #distributed #sustainable #cloud #computing #research #Spark #Nextflow
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenApparently some folks are still confused about how much CO2 in the air has grown due to human activities. It's increased by more than 50%, which means over one third of all CO2 in the air is due to us.
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- The talk recordings from #LOCO2024 are online now: www.youtube.com/@loco-workshop 💻🔬🌱 There are 19 talks across 7 sessions covering energy efficiency, carbon awareness, frugal computing, sustainable software engineering, and the related fields of computing for climate science & energy informatics!
- Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱 Bids due: 13 May (AoE) Notifications by: 4 June Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202... #lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenWhy even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
- PROPL, the workshop that inspired us to organize LOCO, is back! This time it'll take place with both ICFP and SPLASH. Have a look at the website if programming/computing as a force for good is something you care about! 💻🌍🌱📄👇
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- Happening right now at ACM EuroSys 2025 in Rotterdam! 🙂🔊💬 Program details below and on the website: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/ Open access proceedings: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
- Very happy to share the program of the 3rd edition of our Distributed IoT Systems Testing Workshop #TDIS2025, as it will take place at the end of this month with ACM EuroSys and ASPLOS. Come along, if you will be around, for the five paper presentations and two keynote talks! 💻📡🚐🚆🏙️🎛️
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenThis piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
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- Very happy to share the program of the 3rd edition of our Distributed IoT Systems Testing Workshop #TDIS2025, as it will take place at the end of this month with ACM EuroSys and ASPLOS. Come along, if you will be around, for the five paper presentations and two keynote talks! 💻📡🚐🚆🏙️🎛️
- Next week, around #Neurodiversity #Celebration #Week 2025, a few colleagues from UofG's CoSE College and I are offering #Disability Office Hours. Have a look here, lnkd.in/ePS2hpHN, if you're a CoSE student or staff and you'd like to take up this offer for a friendly, supportive chat! 🙂
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- Another 11 days to prepare a short or long workshop paper for the third #TDIS workshop, as we have now extended the deadline to 4 February AoE! Also: The fantastic Thaleia Dimitra Doudali will give a keynote on testing predictive models for cloud resource management! See tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/
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- Reposted by Lauritz Thamsen2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenThe data is in. 2024 was the warmest year on record, and probably in the whole of human history – about 1.6°C warmer than the pre-industrial period. More than 1 billion individual thermometer measurements, made by thousands of people over many decades, have been condensed into a single number.
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenOccasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
- Three more work weeks to prepare a short or long workshop paper (4 or 6 pages) for our #TDIS2025 workshop at EuroSys/ASPLOS end of March: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/ 💻🔬🏙️📰📉
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- 1: We are organizing our International Workshop on Testing Distributed IoT Systems (#TDIS2025) again! For the third time now and this time with #EuroSys and #ASPLOS next year at the end of March in Rotterdam! 🏙️ 🖥️ 🎛️ 📡 💻 🔬 📉
- It’s been two weeks since we held the 1st International Workshop on Low-Carbon Computing (LOCO), and I'm still buzzing. It was so good to see this community come together, hear about all the interesting ideas and early results, and witness how many care deeply about computer system sustainability! 🧵
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- Our Low Carbon Computing workshop #LOCO2024 is taking place now in Glasgow and online! We already had a nice keynote chat with Anne Currie and now we are in the first regular session on Energy Efficiency! 💻🔬🌱
- Just a few days now till #LOCO2024 – the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing! 💻 🔬 🌱 The final programme for the whole of Tuesday 3 December is now available on our workshop website, www.sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...
- It includes links to all the accepted extended abstracts and also some lightning talk abstracts. Please have a look below for a quick glimpse of what we have to look forward to, and visit the website if you would like to read the work we have accepted for presentation.
- Reposted by Lauritz ThamsenCouldn't find a Starter Pack for green computing, so gave it a go! 🌱💻 No doubt it's missing many great ones... please add! Hoping to include anyone discussing environmental impacts of compute (not just pure CompSci), the broader the perspectives the better! #greencomputing go.bsky.app/CCE1mJeat://did:plc:ka2dtrpfewr7cxrpdt3jdy7q/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbuh7nrqbp2s
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- Looking forward to the first seminar I have been organizing together with the good people of @gwics.bsky.social for a joint session on effectively managing all the things, with talks by Simone Stumpf and @matthewbarr.co.uk. Come join us in the SAWB building if you are around next week Wednesday! 🗓️✍️✔️
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- This semester I have the pleasure of teaching in Glasgow's wonderful Main Building, a treat not only on foggy days, but the atmosphere on Tuesday morning last week was unreal 🌫️ 🏰 🧙♂️ 👨🏫 🎓
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