Greetings!  Welcome to the IAP Newsletter, with info about the upcoming IAP Cloud Workshop conducted at UT Austin.

 

Expect a full day of talks by experts in academia and industry working in AI and machine learning, hardware acceleration, operating systems, networking, Big Data, security, storage and data management -  all in the context of distributed systems – from mammoth data centers to tiny IoT devices on the edge of the cloud. 

 

Date: Tuesday December 10, 2019 -- 8:00AM-5:00PM

Registration: Attendance is Free, Advance Registration is Required .  

Venue: On the UT Austin campus in the Gates Dell Complex in GDC 6.302, 2317 Speedway, Austin TX, 78712.

Audience: Stude nts, Faculty, Academic Staff, Industry Researchers and Practitioners are Cordially Invited. Organized by Prof. Chris Rossbach, UT Computer Science, and the Industry-Academia Partnership.

Confirmed speakers and presentation titles are listed below (alphabetical order).  The agenda, abstracts, and bios are posted on the agenda page . Please check back later for additional speakers and updates to the schedule.

· Prof. Vijay Chidambaram, UT, "Designing File Systems and Concurrent Data Structures for Persistent Memory" 

·  Dr. Derek Chiou, UT and Microsoft ,  “ Accelerating Microsoft's Cloud”

· Dr. Niall Gaffney, Texas Advanced Computing Center,   "Research using HPC for Big Data and AI"

·  Prof. Kristen Grauman, UT and Facebook AI Research , “Egocentric Visual Learning”

· Dr. Vinod Kathail, Xilinx , “Vitis and Vitis AI: ML Application Acceleration from Cloud to Edge”

·  Dr. Hui Lei, Futurewei,   “ Towards the Industrialization of AI”

·  Grant Mackey, Western Digital , “ Computational Storage: A Brief History and Where is it Going?”

· Prof. Simon Peter, UT , “E3: Energy-Efficient Microservices on SmartNIC-Accelerated Servers”

· Prof. Keshav Pingali, UT , “Single-Machine Analytics on Massive Graphs Using Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory”

· Prof. Chris Rossbach, UT,  “System Software in the Wake of Moore's Law”

· Larry Wikelius, Marvell, “New Applications and Accelerators for ARM-based Servers”

· Prof. Emmett Witchel, UT, “Achieving System Security in the Era of Secure Enclaves”

$300 CASH AWARDS - POSTER SESSION: $300 cash awards offered for Best Undergrad and Best Graduate Posters. See photos and quotes of the 2017 UT Workshop .  

Attendance is Free, Advance Registration is Required .  

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Please feel free to contact us for more info on these items.

 

Best,

 

Jim Ballingall

Executive Director

Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP) 

www.industry-academia.org

jim.ballingall@gmail.com