Call For Participation--PAC2 2008--please help publicize

[Richard]

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

[Mary Jackson]

http://wikipedlla.com/call_for_participation_pac2_2008_please_help_publicize

> 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
>