Red Hat Research Quarterly
Heidi Dempsey
About the author
Heidi Picher Dempsey is the US Research Director for Red Hat. Heidi works to seek out and grow research and open source projects with academic and commercial partners in areas such as operating systems, hybrid clouds, performance optimization, networking, security, and distributed system operations. As part of the CTO Research program, she encourages diverse participation in computer science and engineering research, and collaborations with Red Hat researchers.
Articles by this author
During Red Hat Research Days, researchers, Red Hatters, technologists, and students come together to discuss exciting new research developments.
Collaboration between students and engineers is shaping the future of software, hardware, and as-yet-unimagined complex computer systems. I like to read science fiction, partly as an escape from thinking about the complex real-life technology and people we work with daily in the Red Hat Research group. Our research and development projects are fascinating, but some […]
Dr. Michael Zink is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In addition to publishing and teaching, Dr. Zink has participated in several projects providing distributed systems and virtual networks for research and education, including GENI and ExoGENI (2007-2021), Cloud Lab (2014-2021), and now the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) since […]
Researchers, students, and software engineers all have something to gain and something to give when checking out research interest groups. I was going through my coat pockets recently and found an old pair of Red Hat sunglasses. The plastic shade part of the sunglasses had popped out on one side, so if you put them […]
Many talents contributed to one goal: a shared production-level research cloud. It was a chilly morning at Boston University, and I was looking for a quiet place to gather my thoughts and do some writing. I passed two painters covering up scuffs on the white walls and a man with a floor machine busily tracing […]
The open cloud has been both cornerstone and North Star for Red Hat Research. Our relationship with the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and its more recent iteration, the MOC Alliance, has been critical to advancing our understanding of open cloud architecture and the many possibilities it opens for research. (Look no further than our interview […]
Research- and leadership-focused support is getting results in the push to grow and diversify the engineering talent pool. The technology industry has largely embraced the theory that diversity drives innovation, but in practice the talent pipeline continues to be leaky. Even when high school preparation is equal, students of color are more likely than white […]