Keynote & Invited Talks

Keynote Talk A (May 28th, 16:30-)

Speaker
<!– –>Dr. Yuzuru Tanaka (Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University; MI Research Advisor, National Institute for Materials Science)
Title
Augmentation: From Integration to Federation
Abstract
This talk interprets the history of augmentation systems as the evolution from the systems providing tools for thought to the cyber infrastructure systems for peoples’ intellectual activities, and reconsiders this evolution focusing on the change of their inter­operation technologies from integration to federation. It reviews this evolution and gives a future vision for this mega trend, partially based on the speaker’s own research.

Keynote Talk B (May 29th, afternoon)

is given by Dr. Sriram Krishnamoorthy, a prominent researcher in the field of parallel programming languages, compilers, and runtime systems.

Speaker
Dr. Sriram Krishnamoorthy (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Title
Scalable Runtime Support for Task-parallel Programs
Abstract
Systems are being built with increasing numbers of compute units and memory domains. The difficulties in programming such systems have led to a renewed interest in abstractions for finer-grained concurrency. These abstractions allow the software stack (compilers, runtime, and OS) to manage system resources and react to events without onerous programmer involvement. While elegant, effective realizations of such programming abstractions require advancements in automated management of concurrency, resilience, and power/energy consumption. I will present some recent advances in runtime systems addressing the challenges associated with task parallelism.
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Invited Talk A (May 29th 9:30-)

Speaker
Dr. Masanori Kusunoki (Japan Digital Design)
Title
Issues on Blockchain utilization and virtual currency regulation
Abstract
Expectations for Blockchain are expanding, but except for the virtual currency, its application has not come out of the field of PoC. In this presentation, through reviewing the history of virtual currency accepted by society, requirements of Blockchain at the design time and outline the trend of international standardization and technology development. After that I review the current state and points of discussion on virtual currency regulation and examine the impact on future Blockchain research and development.

Invited Talk B (May 30th, 9:30-)

Speaker
Dr. Shu Tanaka (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)
Title
Theory and Applications of Quantum Annealing
Abstract
Quantum annealing is a promising computation technique to perform combinatorial optimizations with high speed and high precision. Quantum annealing is a kind of natural computation, which is based on physics. Application search for quantum annealing has been done actively since the appearance of a commercial quantum annealing machine. In addition, theoretical studies on quantum annealing have been done to develop a new type of quantum annealing machine. In this presentation, I will review the quantum annealing from the theoretical side to application side.
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