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SUMMARY: Approximate Computing: (Old) Hype or New Frontier?
DTSTART:20150604T103000
DTEND:20150604T120000
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DESCRIPTION:Sarita Adve\, Visiting Professor in the School of Computer and
  Communication Sciences at EPFL and Professor of Computer Science at the U
 niversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\nInvited by Prof. Babak Falsafi\
 nBio:  Sarita Adve is Visiting Professor in the School of Computer and Co
 mmunication Sciences at EPFL and Professor of Computer Science at the Univ
 ersity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in comp
 uter architecture\, parallel computing\, and power- and reliability-aware 
 systems. She is a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision aw
 ard in innovation\, the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award\, and an Alfred P
 . Sloan Research Fellowship. She is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE and w
 as named a University Scholar by the University of Illinois. She serves on
  the boards of the Computing Research Association and ACM SIGARCH. She rec
 eived the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wisconsin in 1993 and a B.Tech. i
 n Electrical Engineering from IIT-Bombay in 1987. \nAbstract:  Approximat
 e computing is often described as a paradigm that enables trading output q
 uality for resource usage. Real-time systems (and other) communities\, how
 ever\, have traded quality for resources for decades. Approximate computin
 g is also described as exploiting applications' inherent ability to tolera
 te faults and imprecision. Software-driven hardware resiliency approaches 
 have exploited such attributes for low-cost resilience for a few years now
 . This talk will attempt to connect the old with the new and separate the 
 hype from what could truly be the new frontier. I will draw from my experi
 ences with the GRACE real-time resource management and the SWAT software-d
 riven hardware resiliency projects. Cookies and drinks will be available 
 before the talk.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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