CDES'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 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)


SESSION 1-CDES:   ALGORITHMS, CIRCUIT/HARDWARE DESIGN, AND TOOLS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 01:20pm - 03:20pm
                  (LOCATION: Titanium Room)

01:20 - 01:40pm:  R-Tree: A Hardware Implementation
                  Xiang Xiao, Tuo Shi, Pranav Vaidya and Jaehwan John Lee
                  IUPUI, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm:  A Survey of Input Sensing and Processing Techniques for
                  Multi-Touch Systems
                  Jacob Pennock and M. H. N. Tabrizi
                  East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm:  CSPA: An Adder Faster Than Carry-Lookahead
                  Ranando King and Hai Jiang
                  Arkansas State University, Arkansas, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Efficient Synthesis of Symmetric Functions
                  Pijush Kanti Bhattacharjee
                  IMPS College of Engineering and Technology, Malda, India

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Finding Minimal ESCT Expressions for Boolean Functions with
                  Weight of up to 7
                  Dimitrios Voudouris, Marinos Sampson and George Papakonstantinou
                  National Technical University of Athens, Greece

03:00 - 03:20pm:  Design of Low-Area Rijndael Hardware Core
                  Yong-Sung Jeon, Sang-Woo Lee, and Taek-Yong Nam
                  Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institude, Korea

03:20 - 03:40pm:  BREAK

03:40 - 06:00pm:  During this period, CDES'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to PDPTA'08, ICWN'08, MSV'08, SAM'08,
                  ESA'08, FECS'08, CIC'08, or ERSA'08.  These sessions discuss
                  topics that overlap the scope of CDES'08.


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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