Category: Distinguished Lecture

Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA – Abstract: Audio-visual data have been a key enabler of human behavioral research and its applications. The confluence of sensing, communication and computing technologies is allowing capture and access to data, in diverse forms and modalities, in…

Prof. Peter Pietzuch, Department of Computing, Imperial College London – Abstract: As users of “big data” applications want fresh processing results, we witness a new breed of stream processing systems that are designed to scale to large numbers of cloud-hosted machines. Such systems face new…

Prof. Paulo Veríssimo, University of Lisbon, Portugal – Abstract: It is not often that one finds concrete problems capable of inspiring really advanced research. Computing and communications, having become commodities which societies largely depend on, created such an opportunity in what concerns their security and…

Prof. Luis Ceze, University of Washington, USA – Abstract: Energy is increasingly a first-order concern in computer systems. Exploiting energy-accuracy trade-offs is an attractive choice in applications that can tolerate inaccuracies. A key challenge, though, is how to isolate parts of the program that must…

Dr. Jeremy Bennett , Embecosm, UK – Abstract: Dr. Jeremy Bennett brings us two short lectures: the first one is under the theme “Free softcores, tools and toolchains: The OpenRISC experience”, the second short lecture is about “MAGEEC: Machine Guided Energy Efficient Compilation”. Free softcores,…

Prof. Rodrigo Rodrigues, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal – Abstract: Cloud computing is a fast growing, multi-billion dollar industry, with several forecasts predicting an annual growth rate for this market that is well above 20% during the remainder of the current decade. In this talk…

Prof. Maxime Crochemore, Université Paris-Est, France – Abstract: Large amounts of text are generated every day in the cyberspace via Web sites, emails, social networks, and other communication networks. These text streams need to be analysed to detect critical events or the monitor business for…

Prof. José Fiadeiro, University of London, UK – Abstract: As a result of the global interconnectivity ensured by the Web, the new landscape of systems that are operating in cyber-space is that of networks of systems where execution at the network nodes, which could be…

Dr. Paul Debevec, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, USA – Abstract: Somewhere between “Final Fantasy” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, digital actors crossed the “Uncanny Valley” from looking strangely synthetic to believably real. This talk describes how the Light Stage scanning systems and…

Dr. Paul Bertone, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK – Abstract: The amount of information that humans produce and want to store is increasing exponentially. It is estimated that the total digital information on Earth is of the order of zettabytes (thousands of billions of billions of…