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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Chordal Codes for Chip-to-Chip Communication
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DESCRIPTION:By : Amin Shokrollahi - Kandou Bus and EPFLVideo of his talkAb
 stract :\nModern electronic devices consist of a multitude of IC component
 s: the processor\, the memory\, the RF modem and the baseband chip (in wir
 eless devices)\, and the graphics processor\, are only some examples of co
 mponents scattered throughout a device. The increase of the volume of digi
 tal data that needs to be accessed and processed by such devices calls for
  ever faster communication between these IC's. Faster communication\, howe
 ver\, often translates to higher susceptibility to various types of noise\
 , and inevitably to a higher power consumption in order to combat the nois
 e. This increase in power consumption is\, for the most part\, far from li
 near\, and cannot be easily compensated for by Moore's Law. In this talk I
  will give a short overview of problems encountered in chip-to-chip commun
 ication\, and will advocate the use of novel coding techniques to solve th
 ose problems. I will also briefly talk about Kandou Bus\, and some of the 
 approaches the company is taking to design\, implement\, and market such s
 olutions.Bio :\nAmin Shokrollahi finished his PhD at the University of Bon
 n in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he was an assistant at the same university\, 
 before moving to the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley 
 in 1995. In 1998 he joined the Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Techni
 cal Staff. In 2000 he joined the startup company Digital Fountain as their
  Chief Scientist\, a position he had until Digital Fountain’s acquisitio
 n by Qualcomm in 2009. In 2003 he joined EPFL where he has the chairs of A
 lgorithmic Mathematics in the Math department\, and algorithmics in the Co
 mputer Science department. In 2011 and 2012 he co-founded the company Kand
 ou Bus which uses novel approaches from discrete mathematics\, algorithm d
 esign\, and electronics for the design of fast and energy efficient chip-t
 o-chip communication links.\nAmin’s research interests are varied and co
 ver  coding theory\, discrete mathematics\, algorithm design\, theoretica
 l computer science\, signal processing\, networking\, computational algebr
 a\, algebraic complexity theory\, and most recently\, electronics\, areas 
 where he has more than 100 publications\, and more than 70 pending and gra
 nted patent applications. An IEEE Fellow\, Amin’s honors include the IEE
 E Information Theory Society Information Theory Paper Award (2002)\, the j
 oint IT/ComSoc Best Paper Award (2008)\, the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Communica
 tions Theory Award (2007)\, the IEEE Hamming Medal (2012)\, and the Advanc
 ed Research Grant of the European Research Council.More information
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