Program

Day 1, Monday, March 31, 2008, Yorktown Auditorium
Start
 
8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
Yorktown Mezzanine (Front Building Entrance, Outside Auditorium)
 
9:00am Opening Remarks, Conference Organizers
Welcome & Overview, Tilak Agerwala, IBM Vice President, Systems Research
9:15am Keynote, Ghavam Shahidi, IBM Fellow & Director, Silicon Technology, IBM Research
Silicon Technology Challenges for Future Scaling
 
10:00am Break
 
10:30am Panel: Why Do We Still Have Bugs? Challenges from Design through System Software
Prof. Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley
Daniel Brand, Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Bob Kurshan, Fellow, Cadence Design Systems
Prof. Sharad Malik, Princeton University
Prof. Daniel Sorin, Duke University
Prof. YY Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Chandu Visweswariah, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
 
12:00pm Lunch
Yorktown Cafeteria Annex
 
1:00pm Panel: Sleeping Well - Using Technology to Reduce Surprises in the Datacenter
Linda Betz, Director of Security and IT Policy, IBM Corp
Steven Rubinow, CTO, NYSE Euronext
Stephen Singh, VP Marketing, Juniper Networks
Moderator: Lorraine Herger,
Director of Architecture & Strategy, Global I/T Infrastructure, IBM Corp
 
2:30pm Break
 
3:00pm Plenary talk: Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
Robust system design
3:45pm Invited speaker: Scott Hanson, University of Michigan
Energy-optimal & subthreshold circuit design
4:15pm Invited speaker: Lakshmi Chakrapani, Rice University
Probabilistic Architectures
4:45pm Invited speaker: Engin Ipek, Cornell University and Microsoft Research
Self-Optimizing Memory Controllers
 
6:00pm Reception / Cocktail Hour, Crabtree's Kittle House, Chappaqua, NY
7:30pm Dinner, Crabtree's Kittle House, Mount Kisco, NY
Entertaining Thoughts on Realizing Creative Technical Solutions
Fran Allen, IBM Fellow Emeritus
Phil Emma, IBM Research Staff Member, IBM Master Inventor
 
Day 2, Tuesday April 1, 2008, Yorktown Auditorium
 
8:30am Continental Breakfast
Yorktown Mezzanine (Front Building Entrance, Outside Auditorium)
 
9:00am Keynote, Ravi Iyer, University of Illinois
Fault-tolerant systems
 
9:45am Break
                 
10:00am Plenary talk: Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley
Program synthesis with sketching
10:45pm Invited speaker: Anita Lungu, Duke University
Verification-aware processor design
11:15am Invited speaker: Adam Oliner, Stanford University
System reliability & robustness
 
11:50pm Lunch
Yorktown Cafeteria Annex
 
1:00pm Plenary talk: Brian Flachs, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Reliably scaling from a game chip to a supercomputer (Cell to Roadrunner)
1:45pm Panel: Healing Systems: What to Do When Things Go Wrong
Prof. Brian Demsky, University of California at Irvine
Matthew Ellis, VP, Autonomic Computing, IBM Software Group
Pia Sanda, IBM Systems & Technology Group
Lisa Spainhower, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Systems & Technology Group
Moderator: Hillery Hunter, Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson
 
3:15pm Break
                 
3:30pm Plenary talk: Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz
Reducing design complexity
4:15pm Invited speaker: Hari Kannan, Stanford University
Architecture for software security
4:45pm Invited speaker: Nidhi Aggarwal, University of Wisconsin
High Availability Systems with Commodity Hardware and Software
 
5:15pm Closing comments, P=ac2 General Chairs