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SUMMARY:IC Talk: Batteryless Intermittent Computer Systems
DTSTART:20190521T141500
DTEND:20190521T151500
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DESCRIPTION:By: Brandon Lucia - Carnegie Mellon University\n\nAbstract:\nT
 he emergence of extremely low-power computing components and efficient ene
 rgy-harvesting power systems has led to the creation of computer systems t
 hat operate using tiny amounts of energy scavenged from their environment.
  These devices create opportunities for systems where batteries and tethe
 red power are inapplicable: sensors deeply embedded in pervasive civil inf
 rastructure\, in-body health monitors\, and devices in extreme environment
 s like glaciers\, volcanoes\, and space. The key challenge is that these 
 devices operate only intermittently\, as energy is available\, requiring b
 oth hardware and software to tolerate power failures that may happen hundr
 eds of times per second. This talk will describe the landscape of intermit
 tent computing systems as we have developed them. I will briefly describe 
 our newest programming languages and software execution models that are ro
 bust to arbitrarily timed\, frequent power failures\, providing a simple p
 rogramming model and reliable intermittent operation. I will discuss our 
 latest hardware platform\, Capybara\, which enables applications to dynami
 cally provision energy to different parts of an application. I will close 
 with a discussion of our recent work on intermittent deep neural network i
 nference and a recent deployment of an intermittent computer system work o
 n a chip-scale satellite to low Earth orbit.\n\nBio:\nBrandon Lucia is an 
 Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mel
 lon University. Lucia's lab's work spans programming languages\, software
  and hardware computer systems\, and computer architecture. Lucia and his 
 research group are  defining the area of intermittent computing on energy
 -harvesting devices\, and developing future edge computing systems that ma
 ke near-sensor computing more efficient on Earth and in deployments to Ear
 th's orbit. Lucia's work has been recognized with a number of awards\, inc
 luding several best papers\, 3 IEEE MICRO Top Picks and one IEEE MICRO Top
  Picks Honorable Mention\, a 2016 Google Faculty Award\, and the 2015 Bell
  Labs Prize.\nHis lab's website is http://intermittent.systems and his pe
 rsonal website is at https://brandonlucia.com.  \n 
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