Parallel@Illinois Special Seminar Series
Wednesdays at 4:15 pm CT, B02 CSL
The Need for Speed Seminar Series in intended to foster discussion between computational technologists (those who build hardware and software systems to compute faster) and applications experts (those who need systems that compute faster) about the use, form, and end product of higher computational power, and in particular what outcomes we can expect as we cruise along the performance trendlines forecast by Moores Law.
This series was organized by Profs. Sanjay J. Patel and Wen-mei Hwu, two leading experts in parallel computing, to help shed light on new emerging applications enabled by parallel computing. The seminar speakers will talk about what increasing performance means for their particular application domain. In the style of Hans Moravecs famous article on computers and human intelligence, speakers will forecast the big breakthroughs in their field that are enabled by various levels of raw computational performance, or by increases in performance per dollar, performance per watt, or storage capacity.
We welcome your feedback on the Need for Speed Seminar Series. Please send your comments and suggestions to speed@parallel.illinois.edu.
(*If available, videos and slides will be archived on individual Speaker/Bio pages.)
Seminar Schedule
B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory, Wednesdays at 4:15pm CT
Watch the seminars live over the Internet via streaming video.
Date |
Topic |
Speaker/Bio |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Special Keynote | David Kirk, NVIDIA | Feb 4, 2009 | Acoustic Modeling for Multi-Language, Multi-Style, Multi-Channel Speech Recognition | Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Illinois |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Harnessing Stream Processors for Streaming Video: Building a Company on Massively Parallel Processing | Sam Blackman, Elemental Technologies |
| Feb 18, 2009 | Medical Imperative: New Questions to Be Answered by Metabolic Imaging | Keith Thulborn, UI-Chicago |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing | Dan Roth, Illinois |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Video Acquisition and Understanding | Narendra Ahuja, Illinois |
| Mar 11, 2009 | Intraoperative Optical Biopsy of Breast Cancer: The Need for Speed in Real-TIme Volumetric Microscopy | Stephen Boppart, Illinois |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Graphics and High Performance Consumer Gaming | John C. Hart, Illinois |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Spring Break | |
| April 1, 2009 | Video Processing | Nikola Bozinovic, MotionDSP |
| April 8, 2009 | Parallel revolution - 3 p.m. CT | David Patterson, Berkeley |
| April 15, 2009 | Computer Vision | Tom Huang, Illinois |
| April 22, 2009 | Gaming | Tim Sweeney, Epic Games |
| April 29, 2009 | Robotics | Seth Hutchinson, Illinois |
| May 6, 2009 | Next-Gen Multimedia | John Apostolopoulos, HP Labs |
Emerging Application Domains
- Computer vision
- Graphics
- Gaming/Virtual worlds
- Robotics/Autonomous vehicles
- Machine learning
- Speech processing
- Human-computer Interfaces
- Computational Science
- Biomedical computing
- Imaging/Video
Related links
Coordinated Science Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering
