Computer Science Colloquium - Jeff Epstein

An Introduction to Distributed Hash Tables

The familiar hash table is a staple data structure, but how can we scale it up? Can we provide a useful, fast key:value store with arbitrarily large capacity and that can withstand even hardware failure? The answer is yes. Let’s find out how.”

Jeff Epstein is a Visiting Instructor at Wesleyan University. He’s previously been a software developer and has taught Computer Science on three continents.