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EE Distinguished Lecturer Series
Tue, Feb 09, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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"Energy-Efficient Computing: From the Handheld to the Data Center"Speaker:
Professor Margaret Martonosi,
Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton UniversityAbstract:
Over recent decades, power and energy issues have emerged
as a fundamental challenge to computer systems design at
all scales. In mobile computing, achieving high performance
capabilities at low energy for long battery lifetimes is a central
goal. At the data center level, power and thermal constraints
are fundamental limiters in the scale, operating cost, and environmental
impact of internet services and the data centers they run on.
This talk will touch on my group's research in power-aware computing
across these scales, including both hardware and software techniques
for managing power-performance tradeoffs.Biography:
Margaret Martonosi is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. She also holds an affiliated faculty appointment in Princeton CS. Martonosi's research interests are in computer architecture and the hardware/software
interface, with particular focus on power-efficient systems and mobile computing.In the field of processor architecture, she has done extensive work on power modeling and management and on memory hierarchy performance and energy. This has included the development of the Wattch power modeling tool, the first architecture level power modeling infrastructure for superscalar processors. In the field of mobile computing and sensor networks, Martonosi led the Princeton ZebraNet project, which included two real-world deployments of tracking collars on Zebras in Central Kenya. In addition to numerous publications, she has co-authored a technical reference book on Power-Aware Computing and five granted US patents. Martonosi is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM.Host: Massoud Pedram, pedram@usc.eduLecture: 4:00 - 5:00pm
Reception: 5:00 - 6:00pmLocation: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
IEEE/Xplore
Fri, Feb 12, 2010 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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IEEE Xplorer is launching a new Interface on February 12, 2010.
It is important that you learn the new search strategies from the IEEE rep, Mr. George Plosker. He will be at USC on Friday, Feb. 12th at 10:30am, and will give an orientation session in EEB 248.Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Andrew J. Viterbi Distinguished Lecture in Communication
Thu, Feb 25, 2010 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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"From Radiative Transfer Theory to Fast Algorithms for Cell Phones"Speaker:
Dr. Thomas Kailath, Stanford UniversityAbstract:
We first describe how noticing analogies between studies of the Wiener-Hopf equation in the statistical theories of prediction and filtering and in the earlier researches of V. Ambartzumian and S. Chandrasekhar in radiative transfer theory led to fast implementations of the Kalman filter for constant parameter state space systems. Further exploration led to the concept of Displacement Structure and the development of fast algorithms (and efficient integrated circuit implementations thereof) for a host of problems in several fields, including communications, control, signal processing, linear algebra and operator theory. Biography:
After his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sc.D., 1961), Thomas Kailath was invited by S. Golomb to join the Communications Research Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, in a section led by A. Viterbi. He also held a visiting appointment at Caltech, which perhaps had a role in his move in 1963 to Stanford University, where he is now Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus. Over the years, aided by a stellar array of over a hundred doctoral and postdoctoral scholars, his research has ranged over several fields, including information theory, linear systems, estimation and control, signal processing, semiconductor manufacturing, probability and statistics, and matrix and operator theory. Major honors include the IEEE Education and Signal Processing Medals and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 2007. He has also held Guggenheim and Churchill Fellowships, received several honorary degrees, co-founded companies with his students, and been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame and several foreign academies. In 2009, he received a Padma Bhushan national award from the President of India, the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences, and was elected as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.Reception: 3-4pm, RTH Lobby
Lecture: 4-5:30pm, GER AuditoriumLocation: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - 124
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Mayumi Thrasher
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
