Together with the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and the IEEE Electron Devices Society, IBM Research is hosting the 2nd AI Compute Symposium at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center THINKLab in Yorktown Heights, New York.
The IBM and IEEE sponsored Symposium will bring together dreamers, thinkers, and innovators in cutting-edge research for a one-day forum to explore AI Compute challenges and future research directions. This symposium is free of charge.
The symposium will have eminent invited speakers as well as a student poster session. Students are encouraged to submit poster abstracts during registration. Top posters will be invited to submit long-form papers to a special issue IEEE journal. A best poster will also be awarded.
Topics to explore
Cloud / Data Center AI Acceleration
AI at the Edge / AI in IoT
Analog Computing and Emerging Devices for AI
Neuromorphic Architectures
In Memory Computing
AI Algorithms & Applications
Approximate Computing
Program
| Time | Event / Speaker | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 | Registration, coffee & pastries, networking, poster setup | Mezzanine / THINKLab |
| 8:30 | Welcome Rajiv Joshi, IBM |
Auditorium |
| 8:40 | Keynote 1 “Language and Speech AI Research at IBM” Luis Lastras, IBM |
Auditorium |
| 9:30 | CAS / EDS announcements | Auditorium |
| 9:50 | Coffee break / Poster setup | Auditorium / Mezzanine / THINKLab |
| 10:20 | Keynote 2 “(Re)Designing Compute Architectures for AI” Wen-mei Hwu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
Auditorium |
| 11:10 | Invited Talk 1 “Machine Learning for Social Network Platforms” Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, Facebook |
Auditorium |
| 11:50 | Lunch / Poster viewing | Cafeteria / Mezzanine / THINKLab |
| 1:15 | Keynote 3 “Reconstruction of the Brain” Donhee Ham, Harvard University / Samsung Fellow |
Auditorium |
| 2:05 | Invited Talk 2 “Bringing AI to the Edge” Naresh Shanbhag, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
Auditorium |
| 2:45 | Poster session & coffee break | Mezzanine / THINKLab |
| 4:15 | Invited Talk 3 “Full-stack Challenges of Bridging Quantum Chips Up to Scalable Quantum Co-processor Heterogeneous Architectures: The Art of Multidisciplinary” Carmen G. Almudéver, Delft University of Technology |
Auditorium |
| 4:55 | Panel discussion: “What are the Hard Challenges for AI?” |
Auditorium |
| 5:55 | Closing remarks & best poster presentation |
Auditorium |
Submissions
Poster abstracts (2 pages) are invited that address advanced results in AI Compute topics.
Abstract submission: 10 Sep 2019
Notification: 25 Sep 2019
Symposium: 17 Oct 2019
Previous symposia
Media coverage
- IEEE Electron Dev. Soc. Newsletter 26(2), 2019
- “Who’s Who in AI Today” EE|Times, 18 Jan 2019
- “1st AI Compute Symposium” IEEE Circuits and Systems 19(1) 14, 2019
Contact
Photo gallery
Hearty congratulations to our 2019 poster session winners!
| Presenter | Authors | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sohum Datta | Sohum Datta, Youbin Kim and Jan M. Rabaey | University of California Berkeley | Statistics-inspired Architectures for the Cosine Hyper-Dimensional Processor |
| Abhishek Khanna | Abhishek Khanna, Sourav Dutta, Jorge Gomez, Wriddhi Chakraborty, Siddharth Joshi and Suman Datta | University of Notre Dame | Spatio-Temporal Pattern Learning and Classification using Coupled Nano-oscillators |
| Sarunya Pumma | Sarunya Pumma,Daniele Buono, Fabio Checconi, Xinyu Que and Wu-chun Feng | Virginia Tech and IBM | Optimizing Large-scale Deep Learning by Minimizing Resource Contention for Data Processing |
Organizers
Advisory Committee
- Pamela Abshire (University of Maryland)
- Eduard Alarcon (UPC)
- Fernando Guarin (GF)
- Boz Handy-Bosma (IBM)
Poster Session Chairs
- Jin Han
- Krishnan Kailas
- Ramachandran Muralidhar
- Iqbal Saraf
- Nicole Saulnier
- Xin Zhang
General Chairs
- Rama Divakaruni
- Rajiv Joshi
Program Committee
- Arvind Kumar
- Matthew M. Ziegler
Publicity Chairs
- Larry Clevenger
- Cindy Goldberg
Registration Chair
- Abram Falk
ThinkLab/Auditorium Event Head
- Anna Topol
IBM System Support
- Lilli-Marie Pavka (IBM Research – Zurich)