Symposium on Emerging Trends in Computing will take place in Montreux, Switzerland on October 10-11, 2016. The objective of this symposium is to gather about 100 experts from the computing domain, to hear presentations on cutting edge themes and to participate in panel discussions. Participation is by invitation only. Videos of the technical presentations and panels will be made available to students for educational purposes. The symposium is funded by the Swiss Government initiative nano-tera.ch to promote international scientific exchanges.
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Symposium on Emerging Trends in Computing
10.10.2016 (Monday) Montreux, Switzerland
Symposium on Emerging Trends in Computing | SI
Symposium on Emerging Trends in Computing | SI
Schedule
| Sunday, 9 October 2016 |
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19:30 - 21:30 |
Cocktail dinner at the hotel |
| Monday, 10 October 2016 |
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| Session 1: Designing Computing Systems |
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08:30 - 08:45 |
Welcome by Giovanni De Micheli |
| 08:45 - 09:35 | Leveraging Emerging Technologies in Computing Giovanni De Micheli (Professor and EE Department Head, EPFL) |
| 09:40 - 10:30 | New Opportunities in the Internet of Things Yankin Tanurhan (Vice President Engineering, Solutions Group, Synopsys Inc.) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Panel on Embedded Hardware and IoT Security |
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Panel Chair: Wayne Burleson (Professor, University of Massachusetts). Participants: Srdjan Capkun (Professor, ETHZ), Farinaz Koushanfar (Professor, UC San Diego), Pankaj Rohatgi (Director of Engineering, Cryptography Research Inc.), Lionel Torres (Deputy Head, Polytech Montpellier), Pim Tuyls (Founder and CEO, Intrinsic-ID), Ingrid Verbauwhede (Professor, KU Leuven) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Sesion 2: New Computing Paradigms | |
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14:00 - 14:50
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Frontiers of Cognitive Computing Costas Bekas (Foundations of Cognitive Computing Manager, IBM Zurich) |
| 14:50 - 15:40 | Customizable Computing: Options and Opportunities Jason Cong (Professor, UCLA) |
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15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Panel on Data-Driven Science in Education and Research |
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Panel Chair: Giovanni De Micheli (Professor and EE Department Head, EPFL). Participants: Karl Aberer (Vice President, EPFL), Georges Gielen (Vice Rector, KU Leuven), Marco Gilli (Rector, Politecnico di Torino), Steve Kang (President, KAIST), Donatella Sciuto (Vice Rector, Politecnico di Milano), Hiroto Yasuura (Vice President, Kyushu University) |
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| 19:00 - 20:00 | Cocktail hour |
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20:00 - 22:00 |
Gala Dinner |
| 21:00 - 22:00 | Computation: To see a world in a grain of sand Chung Laung (Dave) Liu (President Emeritus, National Tsing Hua University) |
| Tuesday, 11 October 2016 |
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| Session 3: Advanced Processor Design |
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08:45 - 09:35 |
Sub-pj per Operation Parallel Computing in CMOS: From Foundations to Implementation Luca Benini (Professor, ETHZ) |
| 09:40 - 10:30 | CNT Computing Subhasish Mitra (Professor, Stanford University) |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Panel on Emerging Computing Paradigms |
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Panel Chair: Yusuf Leblebici (Professor, EPFL). Participants: Geoffrey Burr (Principal Researcher, IBM Almaden), Christian Gamrat (Fellow, CEA-LIST), Dan Hammerstrom (Professor, Portland State University), Giacomo Indiveri (Professor, University of Zurich), Rudy Lauwereins (Vice President, IMEC), Enrico Macii (Vice Rector, Politecnico di Torino) , Karlheinz Meier (Professor, University of Heidelberg) |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 4: Applications | |
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14:00 - 14:50 |
Alessandro Cremonesi (Vice President, ST Microelectronics) |
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14:50 - 15:40 |
Luc Julia (Vice President of Innovation, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center) |
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15:40 - 16:00 |
Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Panel on Cyber-physical Systems |
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Panel Chair: David Atienza (Professor, EPFL). Participants: Rolf Ernst (Professor, TU Braunschweig), Rajesh Gupta (Professor, UC San Diego), Stephane Paccaud (Global IoT Alliances Lead, Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Ricardo Reis (Professor, UFRGS), Dennis O'Sullivan (Data Center Solutions Operations Specialist, Eaton Corp), Lothar Thiele (Professor, ETHZ) |
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