[HiPEAC-announce] SASP08 Final Program Highlights and Call for Participation

[Cristina Silvano]

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SASP08 Final Program highlights include excellent keynotes by Sanjay 
Patel, UIUC, and
Cliff Young, DE Shaw Group, and an exciting panel moderated by Grant 
Martin, Tensilica.

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                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

  6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP 2008)
                        8-9 June 2008
            Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim CA USA
                 http://www.sasp-conference.org

     Co-located with the 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC)
                         http://www.dac.com

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The SASP08 registration site is now open!

Early registration deadline is May 19.

SASP08 REGISTRATION information can be found at 
http://www.sasp-conference.org

Don't miss to register when you register at DAC!

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The FINAL PROGRAM is now available at http://www.sasp-conference.org

In addition to the technical sessions, the program features two keynote
presentations and a panel discussion:

KEYNOTE TALK:
"Application-Specific Processors for Client-side Computing: 
Opportunities and Pitfalls"
Speaker: Sanjay Patel, UIUC
Sunday, June 8, 11.15am - 12.15am

KEYNOTE TALK:
"Anton, an Application-Specific Supercomputer for Molecular Dynamics 
Computations"
Speaker: Cliff Young, DE Shaw Group
Monday, June 9, 11.15am - 12.15am

PANEL:
"GP vs. ASP: Are ASIPS just a short-term transition in computing?"
Moderator: Grant Martin, Tensilica
Panelists:
Eric Collins, Novelics
Tim Kogel, CoWare
Nigel Topham, University of Edinburgh and ARC
Nader Bagherzadeh, University of Irvine
Joerg Henkel, University of Karlsruhe
Monday, June 9, 1.45pm - 3.45pm

The two-day Symposium will also include a very strong technical program 
selected
by a list of renowed TPC members. The technical sessions focuses on 
several topics
such as application-specific processors ans MPSoCs, microarchitectural 
customization
techniques, reconfigurable architectures, compiler technology targeting 
customizable
processors, architectural design space exploration and hardware software 
codesign.

We are looking forward to seeing you all in Anaheim!

The SASP Organizing Committee

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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
Paolo Ienne, EPFL
Peter Petrov, U Maryland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Alex Orailoglu, UC San Diego
Laura Pozzi, U Lugano

FINANCE CHAIR:
Peter Petrov, U Maryland

PUBLICITY CHAIR:
Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano

E-MEDIA CHAIR:
Ismet Bayraktaroglu, SUN

PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Tulika Mitra, National U Singapore

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR: Grant Martin, Tensilica


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Tughrul Arslan, U Edimburgh
Davide Bertozzi, U Ferrara
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, U Maryland
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine
Philip Brisk, EPFL
Joao Cardoso, INESC-ID
Ching-Te Chiu, National Tsing Hua U
Pai Chou, UC Irvine
Nathan Clark, Georgia Tech
Jason Cong, UC Los Angeles
Andre DeHon, U Pennsylvania
Apostolos Dollas, TU Crete
Nikil Dutt, UC Irvine
Petru Eles, Linköping U
Yunsi Fei, U Connecticut
Georgi Gaydadjiev, TU Delft
Joerg Henkel, U Karlsruhe
Ryan Kastner, UC San Diego
Rainer Leupers, RWTH Aachen U
Wayne Luk, Imperial College
Scott Mahlke, U Michigan Ann Arbor
Grant Martin, Tensilica
Tulika Mitra, National U Singapore
Vincent Mooney, Georgia Tech
Walid Najjar, UC Riverside
Sri Parameswaran, U New S Wales
JoAnn Paul, Virginia Tech
Nigel Topham, Edinburgh U
Norbert Wehn, U Kaiserslautern
Sami Yehia, Thales Group
Cliff Young, DE Shaw Group