Program Schedule: Thursday, October 18 - Session 1
Invited Technical Talk: Network-driven chips
Location: Camellia and Dogwood
Presenter: Li-Shiuan Peh
Intel issued a bold statement recently: that you will no longer be able to buy chips with a single processor core in the near future. Two and four-processor-core chips are already commonplace, with eight-core and sixteen-core products in the market, and eighty-core commercial prototypes demonstrated. How many cores will there be in future chips? Hundreds? Thousands?
For the processor cores, the benefits are many fold in this drive towards many-core chips: higher power efficiency, better performance, and lower design complexity. However, there is a major stumbling block to realizing many-core chips: how will these cores communicate? Current state-of-the-art designs of the on-chip communication fabric cannot satisfy the demands of a chip with hundreds and thousands of cores. There is a pressing need for research into the design of the on-chip communication fabric.
This talk will motivate the need for on-chip networks, show the significant gap that exists between the state-of-the-art on-chip network and the ideal, and follow on with a discussion of our work to close this gap. Further, the talk will motivate that to truly approach the ideal, the network should not just handle communications between cores passively, but actively manage and drive the processor cores instead.
Invited Technical Talk: Inventing the Future of Computer Architecture
Location: Narcissus and Orangewood - CANCELLED
Presenter: Carole Dulong
REUs: Research Experiences for Undergraduate Students
Location: Salon VIII
Panelists: Joan M Peckham (University of Rhode Island), Teresa Dahlberg (UNC Charlotte), Sheila Humphreys (UC Berkeley), Daniela Stan Raicu (DePaul University), Ingrid Russell (University of Hartford), Harriet Taylor (National Science Foundation)
Researchers are sometimes daunted by the specter of bringing undergraduate students into their labs. Experienced undergraduate research mentors will talk about the challenges and benefits of research programs for undergraduates. This will include the design of student projects, training in team work, ethics, problem solving, and the dissemination of research. Other topics include program logistics and the benefits to faculty and their institutions for hosting REUs.
Split Session: Interplay of Life & Work
Location: Salon VI and VII
Advancing Your Career, Advancing Your Life
Panelists: Robin Wilensky (Sun Microsystems), Carlotta Cunningham (Information Builders), Renee Caruthers (Windows in Financial Services), Barbara-Ann Fox (T-SIS)
It is possible to advance in a technology and male-dominated field while still making time for personal obligations. “I Invent the Future” takes on significant meaning for each of us on this panel. We have found ways to further our careers while paving the way for our lives at home and with our families. How did we do this? It’s all about branding ourselves. Come learn from our four different stories.
I Can Fly: How to Invent the Future without Fear
Panelists: Cecilia Aragon (DCA)
Cecilia Aragon overcame a deep-seated fear of heights to become a champion aerobatic pilot. What does aviation have to do with computing? In both fields, women are underrepresented and must defy expectations in order to prevail. In both fields, overcoming fear is crucial for success. With passion, humor, and in-cockpit airshow videos, Aragon describes the step-by-step procedure she used to achieve success as a pilot and computer science researcher.
Women Powering the Next Wave of the Web
Location: South Ballroom
Presenters: Victoria Coleman (Samsung Electronics), Indu Navar (Serus Corp), Angela Biever (Intel Corporation), Susan Mernit (Yahoo!), Anu Shukla (MyOfferPal), Angela Beesley (Wikia), Joyce Park (Renkoo), Eve Phillips (Greylock Ventures Capital Partners)
The web is about to undergo another major transformation – moving from the participatory, media- rich web to the immersive one, where users will be immersed in the web infosphere; where the web represents collective intelligence and the media rich web allows user immersion in virtual worlds. This panel will showcase the contribution of women technologists to this transformation.
Joining the Game: Bringing Women into the World of Games
Location: Salon I and II
Panelists: Diane P Pozefsky (UNC - Chapel Hill), Colleen McCreary (EA), Robin Hunicke (EA), Mary Whitton (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Games are more than entertainment and big business. They significantly impact society and the software industry. Games are used in training, education, and health and are significantly changing our view of software. Given these impacts, we want to see women play a more significant role in the field. We will explore the opportunities and how university curricula can address the needs within traditional computer science curricula.
Career Choices: Evaluating Technology Career Opportunities Among Diverse Business Sectors
Location: Salon III
Presenters: Sarah Cosentino (Amazon), Citigroup, Yahoo!, Laura Takas (Goldman Sachs), Robyn Denholm (Juniper Networks), Tanya Kaplun (Medco), Denise Wright (Symantec), Beverly Seay (SAIC)
Join a moderated panel of female technologists representing a broad cross-section of industries: software, networking, web, financial, pharmaceutical and defense technical services. The panelists will explore similarities, differences and career opportunities in each of their sectors, and share views on what their particular companies seek in technology hires. The panel will require at least an hour to allow for panelist conversation and Q&A.