Program

Computer Architecture & Systems
Oragnizers & Chairpersons: Assaf Schuster, Uri Weiser, Technion
Poster Exhibition: Shmuel Katz, Technion
Dates: Wednesday 1st of June (afternoon), Thursday 2nd of June (all day)
 
Invited Speakers:

Doug Burger (Microsoft), Pat Gelsinger (President and COO EMC), Mor Harchol-Balter (CMU), Maurice Herlihy (Brown University), Mark Horowitz (Stanford University), Wen-Mei Hwu (University of Illinois), David Kirk (nVidia Fellow), Leslie Lamport (Microsoft), Kai Li (Princeton University), Ethan L. Miller (UCSC), Yale Patt (University of Texas), Dadi Perlmutter (EVP Intel), Justin Rattner (VP & CTO Intel), Marc Snir (University of Illinois), Guri Sohi (University of Wisconsin), Mateo Valero (Technical University of Catalonia), Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou (UC San Diego)

 

Imaging Sciences
Organizer & Chairman: Ron Kimmel, Technion
Poster Exhibition: Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Technion
Dates: Sunday 5th of June (all day)
 
Invited Speakers:

Ronen Basri (Weizmann Institute), Michael Black (Brown University & Max-Planck Institute), Laurent Cohen (Université de PARIS – DAUPHINE), Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley), Yi Ma (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & MSR China), Stéphane Mallat (École Polytechnique & NYU), Gerard Medioni (University of South California), Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota), Doron Shaked (HP Labs, Israel)

 
Program
 
Computer Architecture & Systems
Organizers & Chairpersons: Assaf Schuster, Uri Weiser, Technion
Poster Exhibition: Shmuel Katz, Technion
 
Wednesday, June 1st
Session Chair: Uri Weiser
 
13:30-14:00 Gathering and Registration
14:00-14:20
Inauguration of Computer Engineering Center
Peretz Lavie (President, Technion), Eli Biham (Dean, CS)
14:20-15:00
"Future Trends in Computing"
Dadi Perlmutter (EVP Intel)
15:00-15:40
Must Change: Rethinking Digital Design"
Mark Horowitz (Stanford University)
15:40-16:20
"Why Design GPUs Revolutionized Graphics and
Impacted Parallel Computing; Now, Let's go
after Science!"
David Kirk (nVidia Fellow)
16:20-17:00
Coffee Break
17:00-17:40
"Computer Engineering is Key to Winning the
Parallel Computing Revolution"
Wen-Mei Hwu (University of Illinois)
17:40-18:20
"Exploration of Large Feature-Rich Datasets"
Kai Li (Princeton University)
18:20-19:00
"The Golden Triangle of Innovation: Academia,
Venture and Industry"
Pat Gelsinger (President and COO EMC)
19:00-19:10
Welcome – Adam Shwartz (Dean, EE)
19:10
Cocktail
 
Thursday, June 2nd
Morning Session Chair: Uri Weiser, Afternoon Session Chair: Assaf Schuster
 
08:15-08:45 Coffee & Registration
08:45-09:25
"The Future of Chipped Intelligence"
Justin Rattner (VP & CTO Intel)
09:25-10:05
"Whither Sequential?: Rethinking Parallel
Execution for Future Multicore Processors"
Guri Sohi (University of Wisconsin)
10:05-10:45
"From nowhere to MareNostrum and the
MareIncognito"
Mateo Valero (Technical University of Catalonia)
10:45-11:10  Coffee Break
11:10-11:50
"The CMOS Crisis, the Customization Conundrum,
and Continuous Computing"
Doug Burger (Microsoft)
11:50-12:30
"Exascale Computing: The Last Rehearsal
before the Post-Moore Era"
Marc Snir (University of Illinois)
12:30-13:10
"Future Microprocessors: The User Interface has
Important Implications"
Yale Patt (University of Texas)
13:10-14:10 Lunch, Poster session
14:10-14:50
"Taming Wild Concurrency Bugs and
Ad-hoc Synchronizations"
Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou (UC San Diego)
14:50-15:30
"Power Management in Data Centers"
Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University)
15:30-16:10
"Fulbright Distinguished Chair Lecture:
The Future of Distributed Computing"
Maurice Herlihy (Brown University)
16:10-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-17:10
"Where'd My Photos Go? Challenges in
Long-Term Digital Data Preservation"
Ethan L. Miller (UC Santa Cruz)
17:10-17:50
"What is Computation?”
Leslie Lamport (Microsoft)
17:50-18:40
Industrial Panel - "Industry-Academy Collaboration,
Present and Future"
Moderator: Orna Berry (VP EMC)
Panelists: Ami Applebaum (VP KLA), Israel Cidon (Technion),
Limor Fix (Intel Labs), Mark Horowitz (Stanford University),
Wen-Mei Hwu (University of Illinois), Eliezer Levy
(SAP Research), Yale Patt (University of Texas)
18:40-18:50
Concluding Remarks: Uri Weiser, Assaf Schuster (Technion)
18:50
Cocktail
 
Imaging Sciences
Organizer & Chairman: Ron Kimmel, Technion
Poster Exhibition: Lihi Zelnik-Manor
 
Sunday, June 5th
 
08:30-09:00 Coffee & Registration
  Session chair: Israel Cohen
09:00-09:45
"Image Representations for Classification with Invariants"
Stephane Mallat (Ecole Polytechnique & NYU)
09:45-10:30
"Image Processing Takes us to Mars, Hospitals,
and the Movie Theatre"
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  Session Chair: Ayellet Tal
11:00-11:45
"For Low-Rank Structures in Images and Data"
Yi Ma (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign & MSR China)
11:45-12:30
"Computationally Repairing the Damaged Brain:
From Muybridge to a Human Brain-Machine Interface"
Michael Black (Brown University & Max-Planck Institute)
12:30-14:00 Lunch / Posters/Lab Tours GIP/CIS/SIPL
  Session Chair: Alfred Bruckstein
14:00-14:45
"Understanding Graphical User Interfaces as a
Test Case in Computer Vision"
Doron Shaked (HP Labs)
14:45-15:30
"Wide Area Airborne Surveillance: Opportunities
and Challenges"
Gerard Medioni (University of South California)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
  Session Chair: Ron Kimmel
16:00-16:45
"Detecting Faint Edges in Noisy Images"
Ronen Basri (Weizmann Institute)
16:45-17:30
"Geodesic Methods for Biomedical Image
Segmentation"
Laurent Cohen (Université de PARIS – DAUPHINE)
17:30-18:15
"Image Segmentation with Efficient Algorithms for
Markov Random Field Generalizing Convex Total
Variations, Binary Mumford-Shah and Level Sets"
Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley)
18:15-18:25 Concluding Remarks: Ron Kimmel (Technion)
18:25 Cocktail