ERSA '13

[Paul Morrison]

 

ENGINEERING OF RECONFIGURABLE SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS 

Conference in Las Vegas, July 22-25, 2013.

Web site: http://ersaconf.org

I gather this conference has been running regularly since at least 2001.  "The ERSA conference solicits papers from all aspects of reconfigurable computing, including classical programmable logic, as well as configurable multiprogramming related papers. The topics of interests include theory, architecture, algorithms, design systems and applications that demonstrate the benefits of reconfigurable computing."

Its Chair, Dr. Toomas P Plaks, is in London, England, and I believe has just joined this Group.  Welcome aboard, Toomas!

[ern0]

(As I see, the webpage was done since 1994, only animgifs were
removed. Fortunatelly, HTML is a well reconfigurable thing. #offtopic
#evil #troll )

Anyway, I'm glad that this conference exists, but I'm also a bit sad.
This conference title sounds for me like "Association for parents who
love their children", or "Rockers' Beer Drinking Academy".

All software should be configurable even without conferences.

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[Paul Morrison]

A paper on FBP has been added to their journal - http://ersaconf.org/ersa-adn/Paul-Morrison.php

Thanks, Toomas!

[Paul Tarvydas]

On 13-05-11 10:53 AM, Paul Morrison wrote:
> A paper on FBP has been added to their journal -
> http://ersaconf.org/ersa-adn/Paul-Morrison.php

+1.

[Paul Morrison]

Thanks, Paul! BTW, are you knowledgeable about FPGA?

I think I posted about Steve Traugott's TheConvergence before - he seems
to have been very prescient - it looks like it's definitely becoming
steam-engine time! Here it is again:

http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TheConvergence

[John Cowan]

Paul Morrison scripsit:

> I think I posted about Steve Traugott's TheConvergence before - he
> seems to have been very prescient - it looks like it's definitely
> becoming steam-engine time! Here it is again:

I think the reference to Python generators doesn't cut it, though.
Unless great pains are taken, Python generators are not (as Lua
calls it) stackful; if A is invoked, it must itself yield, and cannot
call B and have B yield for it. This means, for example, that an I/O
procedure can't do the yielding for the processing procedure that invokes it.

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Do I contradict myself? John Cowan
Very well then, I contradict myself. co...@ccil.org
I am large, I contain multitudes. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

[pekkap...@gmail.com]

lauantai, 11. toukokuuta 2013 17.53.25 UTC+3 Paul Morrison kirjoitti:

A paper on FBP has been added to their journal - http://ersaconf.org/ersa-adn/Paul-Morrison.php

Isn't ERSA one of the WORLDCOMP conferences?

https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1/

Nice paper, though.  

  

[John Cowan]

pekkap...@gmail.com scripsit:

> Isn't ERSA one of the WORLDCOMP conferences?
> https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1/

It is, yes. A pity it's a scam, but as long as no money has changed
hands, no immediate harm done -- Paul's not an academic, and he's retired
in any event.

--
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they only grind their gears. co...@ccil.org
But then they don't really grind their gears, either;
they only obey the laws of physics. --Unknown

[Paul Morrison]

Wow!  I had no idea - I had never heard of this kind of thing happening!  Just an innocent, I guess!

I was working on the paper with Professor Plaks, who is a member of this group, and I thought we cooked up a pretty good paper between the two of us!  Hope it doesn't get tarred with the WORLDCOMP brush - maybe we can rescue it somehow!  And thanks to everyone for pointing this out!

Toomas, would you care to comment?

Regards,

Paul M.

[Ron Lewis]

Maybe my eyes are aging, but I don't see any meaningful contact information on any of these sites:

https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1/

No contact information. Who is saying this? Do they identify themselves and their organization anywhere?

http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp13/ws/contact

Can get to this link from http://ersaconf.org/. But the contact is only s...@world-comp.org, an email address with no name and no physical address.

Is someone jealous that some professor is making money from organizing conferences? 

I tend to be suspicious of websites that do not provide any contact information and websites that provide meaningless contact information such as only an email address or only a phone number.

I tend to trust websites that give meaningful contact information such as names and addresses. These can be checked with Internet whois sites and Google maps to see if it looks plausible.

I know my eyes are not as sharp as they used to be. Maybe somebody can tell me where to look? Or are these website owners hiding their identities?

[Ron Lewis]

Seems reasonable that ERSA has credibility because Paul knows somebody who is a member.

[Sam Watkins]

Ron Lewis wrote:
> Is someone jealous that some professor is making money from organizing conferences?

It is unclear to me.

Previously I had the impression that world-comp is a fake conference,
but looking into it again now, I'm no longer sure.

Here is an article supporting the world-comp side of it:

http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elaborate-cyber-attack/article_03344d54-cd7f-5753-a870-e3bcee5c87ce.html

The emails I saw that were dissing worldcomp did not have replies,
there was no discussion, perhaps they were perceived to be spam.
They seem to have been sent using web-mail, whereas I would expect
most academics to use the email domains of their university or company.

The pages of allegations against worldcomp are hosted on random google
sites and blogs created for the purpose. Some of the references were
dead links. An academic would post on his own web site, or in his part
of the university / company web site, not create a series of 'attack blogs'.

However, Las Vegas is a ridiculous place for a comp-sci conference.

Both sides seem a bit shady to be honest.

[Ron Lewis]

Great find, Sam. Thank you for presenting the link.

This story inspires to imagine a fictional story. The plot would have the professor's own student using computer knowledge that the professor taught him to secretly attack the professor using sophisticated means including emails with false return addresses and websites. Then, the professor, being the master of the knowledge domain, triumphs in the end using even more sophisticated computer knowledge. But I haven't come up with a plausible motive for my character the attacking student.

On Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:08:01 AM UTC-4, Sam Watkins wrote:

Ron Lewis wrote:
> Is someone jealous that some professor is making money from organizing conferences?

...

 

Here is an article supporting the world-comp side of it:

  http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elaborate-cyber-attack/article_03344d54-cd7f-5753-a870-e3bcee5c87ce.html

...

 

[John Cowan]

Ron Lewis scripsit:

> This story inspires to imagine a fictional story. The plot would have the
> professor's own student using computer knowledge that the professor taught
> him to secretly attack the professor using sophisticated means including
> emails with false return addresses and websites. Then, the professor, being
> the master of the knowledge domain, triumphs in the end using even more
> sophisticated computer knowledge. But I haven't come up with a plausible
> motive for my character the attacking student.

Revenge on the professor for his humiliating takedowns of the student
in class, perhaps?

--
Possession is said to be nine points of the law, John Cowan
but that's not saying how many points the law might have. co...@ccil.org
--Thomas A. Cowan (law professor and my father)

[Ron Lewis]

Yes, I like that as a motivator for the student: Humiliation in class. 

[Paul Morrison]

Is this of interest to the members of the group?

http://ersaconf.org/companies//Solarflare-University-Program.php

Regards,

Paul M.