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


SESSION 1-ESA:    TOOLS + SYSTEMS AND RELATED ISSUES (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 05:00pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Copper Room)

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Achieving Industrial Strength Timing Predictions of
                  Embedded System Behavior
                  Mikael Nolin*, Jukka Maki-Turja, and Kaj Hanninen
                  Malardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC), Vasteras, Sweden

05:20 - 05:40pm:  Testing Real-Time Properties of Embedded Systems
                  Pawel Gburzynski* and Bozena Kaminska**
                  *University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
                  **Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Security Observance Throughout the Life-Cycle of Embedded Systems
                  Seyyd Hasan Mirjalili and Arjen K. Lenstra
                  EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

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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