ERSA'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 01:00pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:00 - 01:20pm:  Opening and Welcome: Dr. Toomas P Plaks; Conhard Design Ltd.
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

01:20 - 02:00pm:  ERSA Keynote/Invited Talk: 
                  Multicore Devices: The New Generation of Reconfigurable Architectures
                  Dr. Steven A. Guccione
                  Cmpware, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

02:00 - 02:30pm:  Invited Paper:
                  The GOmputer Project: Accelerating GO with FPGAs
                  Sven D?ohre, Markus Happe, Tobias Kenter, Ulf Lorenz, Marco Platzner,
                  Tobias Schumacher, Andre Send, Alexander Warkentin
                  University of Paderborn, Germany
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

02:30 - 03:00pm:  Invited Paper:
                  Cellular Automata Architectures
                  Greg Leeming, Ralph Cavin, and Kosmas Galatsis
                  Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation, USA;
                  Semiconductor Research Corporation, USA;
                  University of California, Los Angeles, USA
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

03:00 - 03:20pm:  BREAK


SESSION 1-ERSA:   INVITED SESSION:
                  NEXT GENERATION RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING
                  Chair: Prof. David Andrews, University of Kansas, USA
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 05:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  Panel Presentation:
                  Modeling Abstractions for Next Generation Reconfigurable Computing
                  David Andrews
                  University of Kansas, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Panel Presentation:
                  Threats and Challenges in Reconfigurable Security
                  Ryan Kastner* and Ted Huffmire**
                  *University of California, San Diego, USA
                  **Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Panel Presentation:
                  Design Productivity for Configurable Computing
                  Brent Nelson, Michael Wirthlin, Brad Hutchings, Peter Athanas, Shawn Bohner
                  Brigham Young University, USA; Virginia Tech, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Panel Presentation:
                  FPGAs or Distributed Systems?
                  Bernard Pottier
                  University of Bretagne Occidentale, France

04:40 - 05:00pm:  Panel Presentation:
                  A New Tact in Reconfigurable Computing Research
                  John Watson
                  VP of ElementCXI, California, USA


05:00 - 06:30pm:  During this period, ERSA'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, GCA'08, CDES'08, ESA'08, or
                  FECS'08.  These sessions discuss topics that overlap the scope
                  of ERSA'08.


06:30 - 07:40pm:  PANEL
                  NEXT GENERATION RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING
                  Moderator: Prof. David Andrews, University of Kansas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)


07:45 - 08:45pm:  POSTER SESSION (Chair: TBA)
                  (LOCATION: Gold Room)

                  O. Non-Volatile Multi-Context FPGAs Using Hybrid
                     Multiple-Valued/Binary Context Switching Signals
                     Masanori Hariyama*, Shota Ishihara, Noriaki Idobata,
                     and Michitaka Kameyama; Tohoku University, Japan
                  O. Design of a Cellular Automata ASIC for Conformal Computing
                     Mariam Hoseini, Chao You, and Mark Pavicic
                     North Dakota State University, USA
                  O. FPGA Schemes with Optimized Routing for the Advanced Encryption Standard
                     Jason Van Dyken, Jose G. Delgado-Frias, and Sirisha Medidi
                     Washington State University, USA
                  O. Synthesis of Relocatable Tasks and Implementation of a Task
                     Communication Bus in a General Purpose Hardware System
                     Angel Luis Gonzalez Bravo*, Hortensia Mecha Lopez,
                     Julio Septien del Castillo, Sara Roman Navarro, & Daniel Mozos Munoz
                     Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
                  O. Performance Evaluation of FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator:
                     A Case Study
                     Yidong Liu, Srinivasan Santhanam, and Jooheung Lee
                     University of Central Florida, USA
                  O. FPGA Resource Management Using Internal RAM as Data Cache
                     L. Sanchez, J. Septi?n, D. Mozos, and H. Mecha*
                     University Complutense of Madrid, Spain


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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