CITI, Compaq to host Dec. 13 symposium on high-performance software

CITI, Compaq to host Dec. 13 symposium on high-performance software

The
Compaq/Rice High-Performance Software Symposium will be
held Dec. 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in McMurtry Auditorium,
Anne and Charles Duncan Hall.

Rice President
Malcolm Gillis and Compaq President and Chief Executive
Officer Michael Capellas will speak at an executive panel
at the end of the day, along with Ken Kennedy, the Ann and
John Doerr Professor of Engineering at Rice, and Bob Iannucci,
vice president of research at Compaq. The panel topics are “Challenges of I/T on Academics and Industry”
and “Academic and Industrial Partnerships.”

The day’s
speakers and topics include Kennedy, “Compiler Architecture
for High-Performance Problem Solving”; Richard Kaufmann,
High-Performance Technical Computing Group, Compaq, “Anatomy
of Some Big Systems”; Robert Bixby, the Noah Harding
Professor Emeritus and research professor at Rice, “The
Traveling Salesman Problem”; Kathleen Knobe, Compaq,
“System Support for Interactive Vision, Speech and
Multimedia Applications”; Willy Zwaenepoel, the Karl
F. Hasselman Professor of Computer Science at Rice, “Puppeteer:
Component-based Adaptation for Mobile Computing”; Bob
Morgan, Core Technology Group, Compaq, “Case Studies
in the Use of Research Results”; and Andy White, acting
director of the Computer and Computational Sciences Division
at the Department of Energy, “Applications Use of High-Performance
Computing.”

The event is
open to the Rice community, but registration is required.
The schedule, abstracts and registration form are available
online at <www.cs.rice.edu/CITI/news/events/compaq/>.