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Programmable Logic for High Performance Networking
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Gordon Brebner, Xilinx Labs, USA
Talk Title: Programmable Logic for High Performance Networking
Abstract: The telecommunications equipment industry is now moving to data rates of 100 Gb/s and above, with 1 Tb/s on the horizon. In this talk, I will overview research in Xilinx Labs that has been directed to demonstrating that Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology can play a mainstream role in implementing the required functions at such data rates. In particular, I will focus on packet classification. The first part concerns a novel programmable packet parsing engine capable of extracting relevant keys at line rate. The second part concerns high-throughput lookup of such keys to make classification decisions.
This involves both on-FPGA memory lookup for small tables, and off-FPGA memory lookup for larger tables. In the former case, aside from the necessary lookup rates, a key figure of merit has been the average number of physical memory bits required per table data bit. Another concern has been efficient live table update. Good results have been obtained based on the work of Prasanna et al, for heavily pipelined implementations of tree and tries, and these will be overviewed. After the feasibility of practical implementations at a 100 Gb/s data rate had been verified, a prototype high-level programming environment that hides the FPGA completely was developed, and I will give a short demonstration of this.
Biography: Gordon Brebner is a Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, Inc., the worldwide leader in programmable logic solutions. He works in Xilinx Labs in San José, California, USA, leading an international group researching issues surrounding networked processing systems of the future. His main personal research interests concern dynamically reconfigurable architectures, domain-specific languages with highly concurrent implementations, and high performance networking and telecommunications, with also a historical interest in computational complexity. He has authored numerous papers and the book "Computers in Communication", and holds many patents. Prior to joining Xilinx in 2002, Gordon was the Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, directing the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture. He continues to be an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, is a Ph.D. advisor at Santa Clara University, and is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University.
Host: Professor Viktor K. Prasanna
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 324
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Janice Thompson
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University
Talk Title: Cooperative Game Theory: A New Frontier for Agent Researchers
Abstract: Cooperative game theory deals with how (selfish) agents can create a coalition and divide the gain of the coalition among them, when agents can negotiate before taking their actions. This research topic has 60-year tradition (started by von Neumann), and various solution concepts (e.g. core, Shapley value) that describe how to determine the value division have been developed. Furthermore, the growth of Internet and e-commerce has expanded its application area (e.g. dynamic, agile formations of virtual organizations). In this talk, I give a brief overview of traditional results on cooperative game theory, and describe new challenging topics for agent/AI/CS researchers, such as coalitional structure generation and concise representation schemes.
Biography: Makoto Yokoo received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, form the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering in 1995, from the University of Tokyo, Japan. From 1986 to 2004, he was a research scientist of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). He is currently a Professor of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University. His esearch interests include multi-agent systems, constraint satisfaction, and mechanism design among self-interested agents. He served as a general co-chair of International joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in 2007 (AAMAS-2007), and as a program co-chair of AAMAS-2003. He is on the board of directors of International Foundation for Autonomous Agent and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). He received the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award in 2004, and the IFAAMAS influential paper award in 2010.
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 101
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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A Panel on Wireless Technologies and their Potential for Health and Health-related Research
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
A Panel on Wireless Technologies and their Potential for Health and Health-related Research
Moderator: Urbashi Mitra, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Panelists: Murali Annavaram, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Jill McNitt-Gray, Kinesiology, Biological Sciences, & Biomedical Engineering
Andy Molisch, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
Terry Sanger, Director, HTE@USC
Biomedical Engineering, Biokinesiology & Neurology
Carolee Winstein, Biokinesiology, Physical Therapy, Health Affairs
& Neurology, Director, OPTT-RERC
Description:
Cellular telephones have advanced from pure voice communication devices to data communication devices and are evolving into computing devices with a current focus on data management and entertainment applications. Today, more than 80% of the worldâs population is within the reach of a cell tower with nearly 4 billion mobile phones in use. Such expansive mobile phone penetration and coverage creates new opportunities to exploit wireless technology for prevention and treatment efforts of health conditions. In this panel, we will explore the potential impact of new wireless technology on treatment and on health-related research, in general. Challenges and potential new research directions will be discussed for a variety of health domains.
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
12:00 PM â 2:00 PM
Locations:
University Park Campus, UPC: ACB 238 (lunch served)
Health Sciences Campus, HSC: BCC 1st Floor Seminar Room
Informational Sciences Institute, ISI: 11th Floor Conference Room
Workshop will be simulcasted at UPC, HSC and ISI.
Register at usccer@usc.edu to reserve your space!
Location: Ahmanson Center (ACB) - 238
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos
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Have a Slice With WTS-LA!
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Attention engineers, urban planners, environmental
planners, public policy and logistics students with a career
interest in transportation: Have a slice with WTS-LA! Learn how participation will benefit your professional development in all phases of your
career!Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 12:45 PM - 01:50 PM
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Professor Mark D. Asta, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
Talk Title: Crystal-Melt Interfaces: Insights from Atomic-Scale Simulations
Series: Lyman L. Handy Colloquium Series
Abstract: The properties of crystal-melt interfaces have long been a topic of substantial interest in materials science, primarily because of their role in governing crystal growth kinetics and morphologies. While the importance of this class of heterophase interfaces has long been recognized, detailed information related to their properties has become available only relatively recently due to advances in both experimental and computational methods. This talk will discuss insights derived over the past decade in the application of atomic-scale computer simulations as a framework for calculating structural, thermodynamic and kinetic properties of crystal-melt interfaces. The talk will include a review of results obtained for elemental metals and model alloy systems with cubic and hexagonal crystal structures, and will illustrate how the detailed information provided by atomistic simulations can be combined with phase-field modeling to derive insights into the origin of complex morphological phenomena in alloy solidification. Recent applications to faceted solid-liquid interfaces, and to rapid solidification in binary alloys with also be discussed.
Host: Professor Vashishta
More Info: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-03-10-11.htmLocation: James H. Zumberge Hall Of Science (ZHS) - 159
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Petra Pearce
Event Link: http://chems.usc.edu/academics/10-11/l-03-10-11.htm
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CS Colloquium
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Shaddin Dughmi, Stanford University
Talk Title: Randomization and Computation in Strategic Settings
Abstract: In resource allocation problems, a centralized agency allocates resources to
recipients: an Internet Service Provider allocates bandwidth to consumers; the Federal Communications Commission auctions radio spectra to telecommunications companies; and a content distribution company designs an overlay network to satisfy its customers' routing needs. Often, the agency's goal is to find an allocation that maximizes the social good. This goal is complicated by the fact that the recipients are self-interested, and their actions influence the allocation.
Economists cope with self-interested behavior by designing mechanisms that align individual incentives with the social good. This requires finding an optimal solution to the -- often intractable -- resource allocation problem.
Computer scientists cope with intractability by designing approximation algorithms. Until recently, it appeared difficult to unify these techniques and design incentive-compatible computationally-efficient mechanisms for computing approximately optimal allocations. Impossibility results regarding deterministic mechanisms suggest that this difficulty is fundamental.
My work harnesses the power of randomization to reconcile economic and computational requirements in settings where deterministic mechanisms provably can not. My colleagues and I (1) developed general techniques for the design of randomized mechanisms, (2) applied these techniques to solve some of the paradigmatic problems in this area, and (3) developed a black box reduction that, for a large class of problems, generically converts an approximation algorithm to an incentive compatible mechanism without degrading its approximation guarantee.
Biography: Shaddin Dughmi is a PhD student in the computer science theory group at Stanford University, advised by Professor Tim Roughgarden. His main research interests are in algorithms, game theory, and combinatorial optimization. Shaddin graduated from Cornell University in 2004 with a B.S. in computer science and a minor in applied mathematics. From 2004 to 2006, he was an Information Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, where he worked on cryptographic protocol analysis. He enrolled in the Stanford computer science PhD program in the Fall of 2006, with an expected graduation date of June 2011.
Host: Prof. David Kempe
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kanak Agrawal
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AI SEMINAR
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, Information Sciences Institute, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Chris Welty, Research staff member, IBM Watson Research Center
Talk Title: Inside the mind of Watson
Abstract: Watson is a computer system capable of answering rich natural language questions and estimating its confidence in those answers at a level of the best humans at the task. Â On Feb 14-16, in an historic event, Watson triumphed over the best Jeopardy! players of all time. Â In this talk Chris Welty will discuss how Watson works and dive into some of its answers (right and wrong).
Biography: Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications. see:
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/welty.index.html
Host: Ed Hovy ISI
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
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Suburban/Structure: Films by Sharon Lockhart and Charlie White
Thu, Mar 10, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a screening and discussion with acclaimed artists and USC fine-arts faculty Sharon Lockhart and Charlie White. Filmed in a secondary school in suburban Japan, Lockhartâs Goshogaoka at first seems to be about the drills of a girlsâ basketball team. The film consists of six ten-minute takes in which the various cadences of chanting voices and bodily movements digress into distinct studies. Whiteâs American Minor is a meditation on the suburban American teenage girl and a world defined by products, objects and perpetual consumption.
Lockhart has exhibited at museums around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Kunsthalle in Zurich. White has exhibited internationally at museums including the Shanghai Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum in Austria.
Organized by the USC Roski School of Fine Arts in conjunction with the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
