> P=ac2 Registration is Now Open!
>  https://domino.research.ibm.com/confrnc/pac2/pac2_2008.nsf/register
>  Pre-registration Required and it is free!
>  Both students and faculty are encouraged to attend the conference.
>                                             P=ac2 2008
>                          Monday, March 31, 2008, Yorktown
>  Auditorium
>          Start   End
>          8:00am  8:55am  Registration and Continental Breakfast
>          9:00am          Opening Remarks, Conference Organizers
>                          Welcome & Overview, Tilak Agerwala, IBM Vice President, Systems
>  Research
>          9:15am          Keynote, IBM Research
>                          Silicon Technology Challenges for Future Scaling
>          10:00am Break
>          10:30am Panel: Why Do We Still Have Bugs?  Challenges from Design
>  through System Software
>                          Moderator: Chandu Visweswariah, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
>                          Daniel Brand, Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research
>  Center
>                          Daniel Sorin, Duke University
>                          Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley
>                          Bob Kurshan, Cadence
>                          Sharad Malik, Princeton University
>                          YY Zhou, University of Illinois
>          12:00pm 12:55pm Lunch
>                          Yorktown Cafeteria Annex
>          1:00pm          Panel: Sleeping Well -- Using Technology to Reduce Bad
>  Surprises
>                          IBM Customers & Partners
>          2:30pm          Break
>          3:00pm          Plenary talk: Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
>                          Robust system design
>          3:45pm          Invited speaker: Scott Hanson, University of Michigan
>                          Energy-optimal & subthreshold circuit design
>          4:15pm          Invited speaker: Engin Ipek, Cornell University and Microsoft
>  Research
>                          Design-space exploration & resilient design
>          4:45pm          Invited speaker: Lakshmi Chakrapani, Rice University
>                          Probabalistic CMOS design
>          6:00pm          Reception / Cocktail Hour
>          7:30pm          Dinner
>                          Entertaining Thoughts on Realizing Creative Technical
>  Solutions
>                          Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emeritus
>                          Phil Emma, IBM Research Staff Member, IBM Master Inventor
>                          Tuesday April 1, 2008, Yorktown Auditorium
>          Start   End
>          8:30am  8:55am  Continental Breakfast
>          9:00am          Keynote, Ravi Iyer, University of Illinois
>                          Fault-tolerant systems
>          9:45am          Break
>          10:00am Plenary talk: Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley
>                          Software synthesis for provably correct program generation
>          10:45pm Invited speaker: Anita Lungu, Duke University
>                          Verification-aware processor design
>          11:15am Invited speaker: Adam Oliner, Stanford University
>                          System reliability & robustness
>          11:50pm 12:55pm Lunch
>                          Yorktown Cafeteria Annex
>          1:00pm          Plenary talk: Brian Flachs, IBM Systems & Technology
>  Group
>                          Reliably scaling from a game chip to a supercomputer (Cell ->
>  Roadrunner)
>          1:45pm          Panel: Healing Systems: What to Do When Things Go Wrong
>                          Lisa Spainhower, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Systems & Technology
>  Group
>                          Pia Sanda, IBM Systems & Technology Group
>                          Martin Rinard, MIT
>          3:15pm  3:30pm  Break
>          3:30pm          Plenary talk: Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz
>                          Reducing design complexity
>          4:15pm          Invited speaker: Hari Kannan, Stanford University
>                          Architecture for software security
>          4:45pm          Invited speaker: Nidhi Aggarwal, University of
>  Wisconsin
>                          Virtual redundancy, availability, and isolation
>          5:15pm          Closing comments, P=ac2 General Chairs