Invited SeminarsInvited Seminars are special speaking engagements usually associated with a Distinguished Lecture being held later the same day. Fall 2009SeptemberComputer Science and Engineering Invited Seminar:Energy in the 21st Century: Building a Brighter Future!
Dr. Najib Abusalbi
Thursday, September 3, 2009 AbstractHow long will oil and gas reserves last, and does it matter? Many economists and scientists have made predictions, explored options and written about their theories. Some predict a World War III triggered by competition for oil in ten years, others talk about "bottomless" reserves. And some people say that if we just turn lights off at night, and drive hybrid cars, we'll be fine. Beyond the hype, what are the facts? This talk will cover where energy comes from and where it is consumed, how this balance has been evolving, and what seems to be in store for the world in the next decades, with focus on the market, the technology and the people that will shape this future. BiographyNajib holds a PhD. in Atomic Physics from Louisiana State University. He joined Schlumberger in 1984 after three years in postdoctoral research and teaching assignments in Physics and Chemistry. Since then, he held multiple product development and management positions in several exploration and production domains including information management director, regional operations manager, project director and program manager, as well as recruiting, training and career development manager, innovation and research director, and most recently chief architect for production & operations software in upstream oil & gas. Najib Abusalbi is currently the Director of University Collaboration and is recognized as a Technology Advisor in Schlumberger's Communities of Practice; among his many contributions, he leads the Project Management community since 2005 and acts as a mentor. Spring 2008FebruaryComputer Science Invited Seminar:Visualizing and Measuring the Success of Fault Prediction Models
Dr. Thomas J. Ostrand
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 AbstractSoftware fault prediction has recently become an important topic of software engineering research, and several groups are investigating ways to predict which parts of a system are most likely to contain faults in the future. No one can expect perfect identification of future faults, so it is important to evaluate the relative success of different models and prediction techniques, and to find a common scale by which they can be compared. We will discuss some frequently-used measures and show several ways to visualize the success rate of fault predictions. We'll show how the measures apply to fault predictions that the AT&T research group has made for large systems. BiographyTom Ostrand is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs in New Jersey. His research areas are software fault analysis and prediction, software testing, and empirical software engineering. Tom is a member of ACM and ACM-SIGSOFT, and is a past member of the SIGSOFT Executive Committee. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, the Program Chair for the Workshop on Predictor Models for Software Engineering (PROMISE), and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA). He was formerly in the Computer Science department of Rutgers University, and the software research divisions of Sperry Univac and Siemens Corporate Research. Faculty Contact: Valerie E. Taylor (taylor [at] cs.tamu.edu) Fall 2008OctoberComputer Science Invited Seminar:The Role of Molecular Imaging in the Discovery of New Drugs and Therapies
Mark Lenox
Monday, October 13, 2008 AbstractMolecular imaging involves the measurement of chemical concentrations of specific compounds in living tissue at the molecular level. It provides medical doctors and researchers with important information and enables new insight in the study and management of disease. This new level of information is changing medicine, making it more individualized, and much more effective. We will discuss what molecular imaging is, as well as the technology that enables it and some case studies in research. This includes recent advances in nanotechnology that are enabling new and innovative cancer therapies. Molecular imaging, applied here at TAMU, will help to bring those technologies to fruition. BiographyMark Lenox has spent most of his career applying computer and software technology to difficult problems. He graduated from Arizona State in 1989 with a BSE in Systems Engineering, then again in 1990 with an MSEE from Texas A&M. After working for a couple of years in Dallas, TX, he took a job working at a small startup company in Knoxville, TN by the name of CTI Molecular Imaging. His first job at CTI involved architecting a new software package for their PET tomographs, which was done in C++. After that, Mark moved over into hardware and developed a new high performance hardware platform using FPGAs to perform digital nuclear pulse processing at very high speed. With these tools in hand, he was made the Lead Engineer and project manager for the High Resolution Research Tomograph. The HRRT was a collaboration between CTI and the Max-Plank Institute of Neurological Imaging, and it represented an all-out effort to build the most powerful imager of the human brain ever devised, and the first to use the new generation of digital electronics. Even though the original plan was to build one unit, the program was very successful and expanded to 17 units due to extreme demand. These were placed at the most prestigious neurological research institutes worldwide to aid their research in diseases such as Stroke, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and other dementias. With the HRRT program finished, Mark was named Director of New Product Development for the Preclinical Division of CTI Molecular. There he led the development of several new systems designed specifically for research work in the development of new drugs and the study of disease. In 2005, CTI Molecular was sold to Siemens for $1B. Mark has one patent currently granted with several more in the PTO pipeline, and around 20 publications in PET instrumentation with at least that many more in imaging applications. He lives in Knoxville Tennessee with his wife and two children, and is currently working as a consultant while he finishes a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. Faculty Contact: Valerie E. Taylor (taylor [at] cs.tamu.edu) Summer 2009JuneComputer Science Invited Seminar:Communication Architecture and Memory Interface for Many-Core SoC
Dr. Kiyoung Choi
Thursday, June 25, 2009 AbstractIt is now a trend to integrate more and more cores on a system-on-chip to achieve higher performance at lower power consumption and lower design cost, which are not likely to be achieved with just several cores. However, simply adding more cores may not solve the problem but actually can make the problem worse. The communication overhead can degrade the overall system performance and even increase the power consumption. Complicated communication architecture and protocol design may increase the design cost. Parallel programming and partitioning/mapping of the application increase the software design cost, which is one of the hottest issues today. There are many research groups working on the issues and many other related issues in many different directions. This talk will focus on the communication between cores and memory and discuss how to design more efficient communication architecture and memory interface. Specifically, it will present the idea of cascaded bus matrix and how to co-optimize its pipeline architecture together with the floorplan and topology. It will also present two ideas related with network-on-chip design. One is introducing entry control feature into the network-on-chip to reduce power consumption in SDRAM and the other is introducing active memory processor to reduce communication overhead thereby increase the overall system performance. BiographyKiyoung Choi is a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University. He received B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Seoul National University in 1978 and M.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1980. He received Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1989. He worked for GoldStar Inc. (predecessor of LG) from 1978 to 1983 and for Cadence Design Systems from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronics Engineering, Seoul National University, which has been merged with other departments into the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has coauthored numerous papers and several book/book-chapters in the area of digital systems design. He has served various international conferences including ISLPED, CODES+ISSS, ASP-DAC, and ICCAD as a Program Chair, General Chair, and/or Executive Committee member. He has served on the editorial board of several journals including ACM TODAES and DAEM. His primary research interests are in various aspects of computer-aided electronic systems design. He is also interested in computer/system architecture design and especially in configurable and reconfigurable architecture design. Faculty Contact: Eun Jung Kim (ejkim [at] cse.tamu.edu) |
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