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Kaveh Bazargan – Tehran, Iran

Introduction to Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction
The output of outstanding Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research can be considered as an input for the work of brilliant designers and engineers that fuel disrupting inventions or major...

Swarup Bhunia – Gainesville, FL, United States

Computing in Memory for Data-Intensive Applications
Energy-efficiency has emerged as a major barrier in performance scalability for applications that require handling large volume of data including analytics and informatics applications. For...

Albert Bifet – Paris, France

Massive Online Analytics for the Internet of Things (IoT)
Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT) have the potential to fundamentally shift the way we interact with our surroundings. The challenge of deriving insights from the Internet of Things (IoT)...

Michael Bronstein – Lugano, Switzerland

Geometric deep learning
In recent years, more and more data science applications have to deal with a somewhat unusual kind of data residing on non-Euclidean geometric domains such as manifolds or graphs. For...
Start thinking in 3D!
The last decade has witnessed a series of technological breakthroughs in the acquisition, processing, and analysis of 3D geometric data, enabling applications that are revolutionizing our way of...

Tracy K Camp – CO, United States

MANET Simulation Studies: The Incredibles
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community; however, while the use of simulation...
SMOOTH: A Simple and Realistic Way to Model Human Mobility
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community; however, while the use of simulation has increased, the credibility of the simulation...
SmartGeo: Toward the Development of Intelligent Geosystems
Much of our world's subsurface is contaminated, due to legacy mining and milling sites; without treatment, the earth's water supply is at risk. Imagine a remediation system that...
Wireless Sensor Networks: Motivation, Progress, and Challenges
Wireless sensor networks are improving our world in numerous ways, from environmental monitoring to inventory tracking to health applications to surveillance. These networks connect our...

Amlan Chakrabarti – Kolkata, India

Computer Aided Design for Quantum Computing Circuits
In order to realize a quantum algorithm in quantum machines, at first we need to design its equivalent quantum circuit. The initial circuit will be decomposed into fundamental quantum...
Medical Image Processing: Analysis and Visualization
Imaging has become an essential component in many fields of bio-medical research and clinical practice. Radiologists identify and quantify tumors from MRI and CT scans, and neuroscientists...
Software-Hardware Co-design for New Generation IoTs
Hardware-software codesign is a recent technological trend among the system designers and design engineers to facilitate the design of small embedded systems especially in the internet of...
Task Scheduling and Hardware Design in Reconfigurable Space
Reconfigurable systems are increasingly being employed in a large class of today’s heterogeneous real-time embedded systems which often demand satisfaction of stringent timeliness...

Dipankar Dasgupta – Memphis, TN, United States

Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) Methodology
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is the current trend to genuinely identify authorized users (in multiple ways) through an authentication process via passwords, security tokens, biometrics,...

Kerstin Dautenhahn – Hatfield, United Kingdom

Robotics meets Therapy Challenges for Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism
The talk will motivate and illustrate the field of robot-assisted therapy for children with autism.

Over the past 10 years an increasing number of research...
Social Robotics A New Generation of Robots Built for People
Compared to how people interact with computer and other electronic devices, something ‘special’ happens when humans come in contact and interact with physical robots....

Tassos Dimitriou – Athens, Greece

Security and Privacy issues related to the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear... they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they become indistinguishable from it”. This...
Sensor networks: A Bridge to the Physical World
The distribution of networked sensors in the environment offers exciting new possibilities for sensing and monitoring. Sensors can be placed close to multiple signal sources so that,...

Henry Duh – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Augmented Reality: Current Research Development and Future Directions
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the emerging technologies and prevailing research areas in recent years. It gives numerous opportunities to create new interaction style...
User Experience Design for Internet of Things
Internet of Things is recently mentioned as one of the disruptive technologies to change our daily life. For the economical development in regional areas, how IoTs can be...

Gabor Fichtinger – Kingston, ON, Canada

Rapid Prototyping of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions
Real-time computational image guidance is powerful aid to physicians in carrying out minimally-invasive surgical and interventional procedures. This technology offers higher accuracy and precision...

Silvia Giordano – MANNO ,TI, Switzerland

Is the future mobile networking?
In the last decades, mobile ad hoc networking has been suggested as a technology for realizing the ubiquitous computing vision. However, after more than ten years of research in this field, this...
Mobile Hoc Networking: Cutting edge Directions
Starting from the reasons why the multi-hop ad hoc networking paradigm did not have a major impact on computer communications, this talk presents the evolution of the multi-hop ad hoc...
People in mobile ad hoc networking
The mobile/multihop ad hoc networking paradigm was born with the idea of extending the Internet services to group of mobile users. In those networks, often referred to as MANETs (Mobile Ad...
The Human Element as the Key Enabler of Big Data and Pervasiveness Visions
The recent proliferation of smartphones/tablets has brought data networking to the general public. This has the potential of achieving the pervasive computing vision by putting the human element...
The next frontier in mobile communications: when mobility can be exploited for communications
With the proliferation of mobile devices, mobility is becoming part of daily computing and communications. Opportunistic Networking leverages on such mobility for improving communication...
What's still missing in Sensor Networks: User Friendly WSN Development & Deployment
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) penetrated the market mainly as solutions for specific application scenarios. However, this strong specialization limits WSNs reuse both in terms of development as...

Donald Gotterbarn – Johnson City, TN, United States

Computer Ethics and Technology
This talk focuses on computer ethics as it relates to the day to day activities of practicing computer professionals. The emphasis is on real world moral and legal issues for the practicing...
Software Development: More Than Just Programming
We are often surprised by the number of non-programming related issues that affect the professional’s efforts to develop quality software and web interfaces. Development efforts are...
Unmanaged Risk: Why Systems Don't Work
The focus on software testing and risk analysis during software development has only had a limited effect in reducing software failures. This talk will present a new approach to the identification...

Michael Gschwind – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Technology Futures - The IBM Technology Forecast
Join me for a look at IBM's vision for the near term future, or as IBM terms it, IBM's Global Technology Outlook (GTO). IBM Research and its global community of some of the...
Unchaining Large-Scale Datacenter Computing: Reengineering a Server Ecosystem
Over the past several years, a new class of computing solutions has emerged in the form of dedicated data center scale computing platforms to power services such as search and social...

Haitham S Hamza – Giza, Egypt

Agile ITIL: An Approach for Practical Implementation of ITIL
IT Service Management (ITSM) standards and frameworks aim at improving the design, implementation, and operation of IT services to ensure delivery of business value in a cost-effective way....
Demystifying the IoT Platforms
The concept of Internet of things (IoT) has been around for more than a decade now and appears to continue attracting the attention of industry and research communities. The holistic vision...
Value Creation with Open Data: Potentials and Challenges
Open Data, as defined by the Open Data Institute (ODI), refers to the data that is made available by organizations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share. The...

James D Herbsleb – Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Socio-technical Coordination
Coordination, or managing dependencies among tasks, has long been recognized as one of the most difficult, pervasive, and persistent problems in large-scale software development. A...

Tsung-Yi Ho – Hsinchu, Taiwan

Digital Microfluidic Biochips: Towards Hardware/Software Co-Design and Cyberphysical System Integration
Advances in droplet-based digital microfluidic biochips (DMFBs) have led to the emergence of biochips for automating laboratory procedures in biochemistry and molecular biology. These...
The Coming of Age of Flow-Based Microfluidics: EDA Solutions for Enabling Biochemistry on a Chip
As the design complexity rapidly increases, the manufacture and the biochemical analysis of flow-based microfluidic biochip become more complicated. According to recent study, the biochips...

Shiyan Hu – Houghton, MI, United States

Nanoscale Interconnect Optimizations for Emerging Technologies
As the VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay becomes the bottleneck of circuit performance. Interconnect synthesis which includes buffer insertion and layer assignment is...
Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyber-Physical System
The massive deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and home energy management system has mandated a transformative shift of the classical grid into a more reliable and secure grid. Smart...

Yu Hua – Wuhan, China

Deduplication-aware Ecosystem: A Bottom-up Approach
In the era of big data, the rapid growth in data volume and complexity requires highly efficient schemes to reduce the amounts of data. Deduplication schemes can remove the redundant data, which...

Kristina Höök – Stockholm, Sweden

Designing for Somaesthetics
In designing for bodily experiences, there has been a lack of theories that can provide the underpinnings we need to understand and deepen our design thinking. Despite all the work we have seen on...
The Mobile Life? An enjoyment society
The Mobile Life Centre, started in 2007, has grown to be about 45 researchers, exploring experiential, leisure and playful mobile and ubiquitous interactions. We do serious research on what we...
What is design knowledge?
Research through design (RtD) aims at bringing out design knowledge in different forms: both the ultimate particulars (specific designs used in specific contexts) as well as more generic...

Seiji Isotani – Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil

Understanding Ontologies and Ontology Engineering
Computer science borrows the term ontology from a branch of philosophy (metaphysics) that studies the nature of “being” and “existence.” For philosophers, ontology aims at...

Dharm Singh Jat – Windhoek, AR, Namibia

Futuristic Wireless Networks for Multimedia Applications
Nowadays the IP video traffic over the wireless network is continuously growing due the advances in wireless network technologies and smart mobile communication devices. It is estimated that...

Scott Jenson – Mountain View, CA, United States

Home Automation is an EasyHard problem
It's so easy to fall into the trap that the internet of things 'just works'. This lecture shows how even something as simple as turning on a light can filled with UX distasters....
The Physical Web
The history of technology and interaction design is circular. A new technology creates a new product concept that starts off primitive but slowly matures over time. Then a new technology...
The UX Grid of IoT
The "Internet of Things" is too broad a concept. It can be many things and that is a source of confusion. This 2x2 matrix of the UX Grid of IoT is a simple breakdown but it allows...

Benjamin Kenwright – Leicester, United Kingdom

Memory management: Fast Efficient Fixed-Sized Memory Pools
This lecture discusses the importance of memory in the context of performance. We examine and present a ready-to-use, robust, and computationally fast fixed-size memory pool manager...
Debugging Game Systems (Practical Debugging)
The practical challenges of debugging large software projects (such as video games) is important – not just the ability to track down issues but to write software that makes the...
High Performance Graphics with Vulkan

This lecture introducing the listener to the Vulkan cross platform 3D graphics API - including examples and discussion on the practical aspects. The lecture address questions, such...
Inverse Kinematics
Inverse kinematics is the mathematical process for calculating the movement of objects. This is useful in a whole range of fields, from engineering and robotics to medical analysis and...
Opportunities and Challenges in Teaching Video Games in Higher Education
This lecture discusses the opportunities and challenges of video game curricula. The talk explores the diversity of the subject from both an artistic and technical perspective - centred around...

Christoph Kirsch – Salzburg, Austria

Selfie and the Basics
Imagine a world in which virtually everyone at least intuitively understands the fundamental principles of information and computation. In such a world computing would be as natural to people as...

Fernando Koch – Melbourne, Australia

Disruptive Technologies and the Future of Society
The new generation of technology development -- including Computational intelligence, Cognitive Computing, Internet of Things, Social Computing and Virtual Reality, and others – will disrupt...
Evolution of Digital Education and Impact on Learning Performance
The evolution of Digital Education focuses on delivering the best quality education for all. The results will be the enhancement of society as a whole, impacting from health to happiness, from...
The New Era of Cognitive Computing Experience
In this lecture, we explain the nature of potential new experiences that the era of Cognitive Computing will require. Historically, human-computer interaction has progressed from...

Sven Koenig – Los Angeles, CA, United States

Making Good Decisions Quickly
Several disciplines, including artificial intelligence, operations research and others, study how to make timely and good decisions. In this talk, I argue that it is possible to combine ideas from...

Anis Koubaa – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Designing and Building a Drone From Scratch: Challenges and Practical Considerations
Drones are becoming very popular and a large variety of drones are now available on the market. But why you don’t make your own? While it seems not that complicated to build a...
IEEE 802.15.4e for IoT Applications: An Overview
IEEE 802.15.4, was initially developed for coping with the requirements of low power and low data rate communication for wireless personal area networks, which then was adopted as a...
Robot Operating System (ROS): How did it revolutionize robotics software development?
Robot Operating System (ROS) becomes nowadays the de-facto standard for developing robotics applications. The pre-birth initiatives were emerging from STanford AI Robot (STAIR) project and...
The Internet-of-Drones: Integrating Drones into the Internet-of-Things and the Cloud
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - also known as Drones, are becoming increasingly popular. Although these have been around for already a few years, applications’ developers and...
Understanding the MAVLink Protocol and Ardupilot for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Ardupilot is the main autopilot for drones, ground vehicles and underwater vehicles. It is considered as the most powerful autopilot developed by experts and professionals and being used by...

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru – New Delhi, India

Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM)
With increase in usage of the Internet, there has been an exponential increase in the use of online social media on the Internet. Websites like Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Orkut, Twitter and...

Ashish Kundu – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Baking Compliance into Cloud: Art or Science?
With the (obvious) evolution of cloud from being a compute-centric infrastructure to a data-and-compute-centric infrastructure, more and more enterprises are bringing their data to cloud in...
Exploiting Placement New of C++
In this talk, we would explore how to exploit the "placement new" expression in C++. "Placement new" facilitates placement of an object/array at a specific memory location....

Effie Lai-Chong Law – Leicester, United Kingdom

Measuring Users Experiences: Retrospect and Prospect
In 2011 I was exploring the issue on the measurability of users’ experiences, as inspired by my collaboration with a group of HCI researchers to analyse several fundamental issues -...

Dongwon Lee – Fairfax, VA, United States

Human Computation in Data Science
As a novel computation paradigm, human computation (a.k.a. crowdsourcing) is being actively pursued in diverse academic disciplines. Within computer science, many sub-fields have also embraced the...
LIKEs-R-Us: Analyzing LIKEs in Social Media
The recent dramatic increase in the usage and prevalence of social media has led to the creation and sharing of a significant amount of information in various formats such as texts, photos, or...

Hai Li – Durham, NC, United States

Neuromorphic Computing and Deep Learning - Technology, Hardware and Implementation
As big data processing becomes pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives, the desire for embedded-everywhere and human-centric information systems calls for an "intelligent" computing...

Shipeng Li – Beijing, China

Virtualize Everything a Path to the Convergence of Cloud, Mobile and IoT Computing
With the rapid development of Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing and IoT Computing, there is an increasing need for an efficient and effective way to enable the collaborations between cloud,...

Gabriel H Loh – Bellevue, WA, United States

Computer Architectures for 3D Die Stacking
Session 1 Title: Die Stacking and it Architectural Implications

Session 2 Title: Introduction to Die-Stacked Memory Systems

Session 3 Title: Advanced Topics...

Oge Marques – Boca Raton, FL, United States

Can you trust what you see? The magic of visual perception
This lecture presents and explains a diverse collection of visual perception phenomena that challenge our common knowledge of how well we detect, recognize, compare, measure, interpret, and make...
Machine learning and its applications
This talk provides an overview of machine learning concepts, techniques and applications.

The field of machine learning has experienced...
Medical image analysis using deep learning
This talk provides an overview of the field of medical image analysis, with emphasis on the recent impact of increasingly popular deep learning techniques on the design and implementation of...

Jeanna N Matthews – Potsdam, NY, United States

Rapid Recovery Architecture and Virtual Machine Contracts
Many seemingly innocent actions can render your personal computer unusable and the road to recovery can be painful. For example, reinstall the OS (if you know how), reinstall the...

Prabhat Mishra – Gainesville, FL, United States

Energy-Aware Dynamic Reconfiguration in Real-Time Systems
Energy is one of the key design considerations in embedded systems. Optimization techniques based on dynamic reconfiguration are widely employed for achieving various design objectives. While...

Jacquelyn F Morie – Los Angeles, CA, United States

Creating Meaningful Works of Virtual Reality (VR) Experiences
Drawing on my 25 year history of creating meaningful virtual reality experiences, I will discuss the techniques I have developed to help evoke emotional responses from participants in such...
History of Virtual Reality
This talk introduces the basics of early VR history, including the people and inventions that enabled it. I define what fully immersive VR means and look at the factors that support full...
The Ultimate Selfie: Musings on the Future of Our Human Identity
Identity in today's world is being radically redefined by our access to sophisticated technologies that allow us to share images of ourselves ubiquitously, don a variety of avatars to...

Laurence Nigay – Grenoble, France

Multimodal Interaction
Multimodal interaction supports multiple interaction techniques, which may be used sequentially or concurrently, and independently or combined synergistically. Specific interaction aspects...

Zoran Obradovic – Philadelphia, PA, United States

Computational Methods for Early Diagnostics and Multiple Blood Cleansing Interventions in Sepsis
Sepsis, a severe complication of pathogen infection that triggers systemic inflammatory response and can lead quickly to multiple organs damage, is recognized as one of the leading causes of...

Phillippe Palanque – Toulouse, Cedex, France

Engineering Interactive Critical Systems.

Innovation and creativity are the main research drivers of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community which is currently investing a vast amount of resource in the design and...
Engineering Interactive Critical Systems.
Innovation and creativity are the main research drivers of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community which is currently investing a vast amount of resource in the design and evaluation...
The Future of Design, Specification, Modeling and Verification of Interactive Systems. Can our systems be Reliable, Dependable and Usable?
Designing reliable interactive software is hard, and designing usable reliable interactive software is even harder. Experience shows that many interactive systems exhibit recurring...

Sharath Pankanti – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Actionable Video Content Summarization: Lessons from Practical Case Studies
For the first time in the history of universe, the video data generated by humans has exceeds all other forms of the data. While no one denies the utility of the information hidden within...
Biometrics
The determination of identity can be accomplished by three generic means. Conventionally, an exclusive possession (either a physical, e.g., key or electronic, e.g., cookie), knowledge (e.g.,...
Multi-media Compliance: A practical paradigm for managing business integrity
In virtually every business context there is a need to establish some form of monitoring system to ensure that employees comply with business processes and policies. Compliance failures range from...
Public Sector Surveillance
Situation awareness is the key to security. Awareness requires information that spans multiple scales of space and time. The increasing need for sophisticated surveillance systems and the move to...
Retail video analytics
The retail industry grosses trillions of USD revenue annually worldwide and provides numerous opportunities for innovation to facilitate real-world business operations. Applications include: loss...

Gyana R Parija – New Delhi, India

CBC2015: Industry Connect
IBM's Watson represents a whole new class of industry specific solutions called cognitive systems. It builds on the current paradigm of Programmatic Systems and is not meant to be a...
Using Hybrid Goal Programming for performing National Analysis of Wild land Fire Management in US
We present a multi-criteria budget allocation model for assigning national budgets across all the Fire Planning Units (FPU) in the US. We discuss the innovations we have made, based on users...

Fabio Paterno – Pisa, Italy

Design and Adaptation for Cross-Device, Context-dependent User Interfaces
This course aims to help user interface designers and developers to understand the issues involved in multi-device, context-dependent interactive applications, which can be accessed through...
End-User Development: an Emerging Field for Empowering People
End-User Development is a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or...
Model-based User Interface Design: Where we are, Where we are headed
Model-based approaches represent the intersection between user interface design and more systematic approaches by providing designers with the means to represent and manipulate...
The role of automatic tool support in usability and accessibility evaluation of Web applications
Evaluation is an increasingly important part of the user interface design process. However, evaluation can be expensive in terms of time and human resources, and automation is therefore a...

Shrisha Rao – Bangalore, India

Safety Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems
Computers and software components are now integral to large complex systems in almost all sectors of modern society. The safety of such systems is therefore dependent upon many...
Services Science and Services Computing
New models of computation such as cloud computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things have fundamentally upended common assumptions about the nature and purposes of computation. One thing...
Sustainability in IT Systems
While we all appreciate the ways in which information technology (IT) has revolutionized society, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the full benefits of IT will be available to us...

Abhik Roychoudhury – Singapore, Singapore

Automated Program Repair

Software debugging is extremely time consuming, and hence techniques to aid automated program repair are of value. Moreover, even after software errors are identified, fixing the...
Software Debugging as a Science
Program debugging is an extremely time-consuming process, and it takes up a large portion of software development time. In practice, debugging is still very much of an art, with the...
Symbolic Analysis Methods for Software Debugging and Repair
In recent years, there have been significant advances in symbolic execution technology, driven by the increasing maturity of constraint solvers as well as by the availability of cheap...
Testing and Debugging of Software Regressions

Software regressions, where a previously working program fails on certain tests after changes, constitute a major source of delays and missed schedules in any large software...

Andrzej Rucinski – Strafford, NH, United States

OPPORTUNITY OF INTERNET OF THINGS SEMINAR
Internet of Things (IoT) is an expanding space for researchers, students, and professionals. Development of IoT applications is hindered by the lack of available design tools,...

Valentina Salapura – NY, United States

High Performance Computing at IBM
High-performance computing technologies are entering the mainstream in a transition ready to revolutionize entire industries. Today, clusters, grids and virtualization infrastructure at...
Innovation at IBM -- Smarter Planet Initiative
When IBM set its sights on helping to create a smarter planet two years ago, we predicted the evolution of an increasingly instrumented, intelligent and interconnected world. Intelligence is being...
Technology Futures: IBM's Global Technology Outlook
Join us for a look at IBM's vision for the near term future, or as IBM terms it, IBM's Global Technology Outlook (GTO). IBM Research and its global community of some of the...

Hanan Samet – College Park, MD, United States

Translation Validation: Automatically Proving the Correctness of Translations Involving Optimized Code
An early system for proving that programs written in a high level language are correctly translated to a low level language is described. A primary use of the system is as a postoptimization step...

Xipeng Shen – Raleigh, NC, United States

Challenges and Progresses in Battling Data Diversity in Program Optimizations
Data-driven applications are becoming increasingly influential in business analytics, social networks, scientific research and many other domains. Data volume increases rapidly, so does data...
Data Locality for Massive Parallelism
Recent years have seen a rise of massive parallelism in modern processors, typified by Graphic Processing Units (GPU), Many Integrated Cores (MIC), Accelerated Processing Units (APU), and...
Do Computer Programs Have to Be As Dumb As They Are?
Looking around this world, we see that a fledgling can fly faster and faster, a pupil can calculate quicker and quicker, and a graduate student can write papers better and better. But since...
Exerting the Hidden Power of Compilers for Modern Computing---Experiences on GPU and Data Analytics
Born soon after the arrival of the first computer, as one of the oldest branches in Computer Science, Compiler Technology is often regarded as a mature field. Dr. Shen and his group have,...
Heterogeneous Computing: Old Idea, New Implications ---A Perspective from Compilers and Programming Systems
Recent years have witnessed dramatic changes in computing systems. Massive parallelism and heterogeneity are commonly considered as two key features for future computing systems to reach...
Overcoming GPU Hardware Limitations through Software Innovations
For their tremendous computing power, Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have received broad adoptions for a large variety of applications. The massively parallel hardware design makes it superior...
PORPLE: An Extensible Optimizer for Portable Data Placement on GPU
GPU has complex memory systems. Where to place the data is important for the performance of a GPU program. However, the decision is difficult for a programmer to make because of...
Reciprocity between Compilers and Machine Learning
In this talk, Dr. Xipeng Shen will discuss two fundamental questions in two different disciplines: (1) Machine learning (ML) researchers have devoted decades of manual efforts, documented...
Streamlining GPU Computations On the Fly
The efficiency of Graphic Computing Units (GPU) is sensitive to irregular memory references and divergent control flows. This talk explores the fundamental causes of the problem, showing that the...
Tackling Memory and Concurrency Barriers for Modern Parallel Computing
Two key barriers for tapping into the full power of modern (massively) parallel machines are the limited bandwidth in memory and the limited parallelism in some applications. This talk presents...

Biplav Srivastava – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Big, Open, Data and Semantics for a Real-World Application Near You

State-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data management techniques have been demonstrated to process large volumes of noisy data to extract meaningful patterns and drive...
AI Techniques for Intelligent Traffic Management
Traffic management is a pressing problem for cities around the world. Moreover, it is a highly visible perspective of a city's life affecting all aspects of its citizens' economic...
Semantic Web for Data Integration
This talk is a tutorial to make advanced undergraduate students and early researchers aware of semantic web techniques and learn to use them in everyday applications. This event will have a...
Understanding Approaches for Composition, Execution and Adaptation of Web Services

The demand for quickly delivering new applications is increasingly becoming a business imperative today. Application development is often done in an ad hoc manner, without standard...

Richard Stallman – Boston, MA, United States

A Free Digital Society: What Makes Digital Inclusion Good Or Bad?
There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include massive surveillance, censorship, digital handcuffs, nonfree software that controls users, and the War on Sharing....
Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit...
Free Software and Your Freedom
The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically...
The GNU General Public License
Richard Stallman wrote the first GNU General Public License in 1989, and version 3 which was completed in 2007. He will discuss the philosophy of the GNU GPL, the changes made in...

David G. Stork – Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Computational imaging: Using computing for optics and optics for computing
The discipline of computational imaging involves the design of both the optics and the digital signal processing to achieve a desired digital output. The electro-optical system is hence best...
Computer vision in the study of art: New rigorous approaches to the study of paintings and drawings
New rigorous computer algorithms have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, illumination estimation and shape-from-shading methods...

Venkat Subramaniam – Broomfield, CO, United States

Functional Programming
Most of the mainstream languages have supported the imperative style of programming for a very long time. Functional programming has been around for a few decades but it's finally gaining...
Java 8 Lambda Expressions, the Pathway to Functional Style
Java 8 has been one of the most significant changes to the language. It is not simply the introduction of some new syntax, but a fundamental different way of thinking that we're used to when...
Let's Get Lazy: Explore the Real Power of Streams
When we hear functional programming we often hear about immutability and higher-order functions. They are definitely important, but the real power of functional programming is in function...
Reactive Programming
Why a new programming model? The computing platform and the demands on applications have significantly changed in the past few years. We can't be creating applications like we once did....
The Power and Perils of Parallel Streams
Java 8 makes it really easy to convert a stream to a parallel stream, to run tasks concurrently. When come thing is that easy we tend to ask "what's the catch" and that's a very...
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
The quality of the code we create has a significant impact on our ability to change the software in the future. As programmers succumb to time and deliver pressures, the quality of code may get...

Andrew S Tanenbaum – Amsterdam, Netherlands

MINIX 3: A Reliable and Secure Operating System
Most computer users nowadays are nontechnical people who have a mental model of what they expect from a computer based on their experience with TV sets and stereos: you buy it, plug...

Ranjith Tharayil – Bangalore, India

Adapting BDD for software maintenance projects using the dEep model.
Behaviour driven development has been a tried and tested technique to help us build the right product. In the recent years many teams who are in green field development projects are...
Automated Unit testing is a necessity but, TDD a necessity or luxury?
We all know that Test driven development, TDD is much better than test last approach, in test last we write unit tests after writing the required code. But somehow the industry still doesn’t...
Change Vector Tracking in emergent design
Software design is a field that has always fascinated me and I have tried to be an obedient student trying to learn this art. Like any other design problem, software design is also a wicked...
The craft of business driven design
Even if we could produce completely bug-free software, that does not necessarily mean that the software design is of great quality, and if the software design does not reflect your business...
When and How to embrace Behaviour Driven Development?
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) is a collaborative and disciplined technique to help us build the right product. In the last decade BDD has had her own bit of glory and criticism. Many...

Harold Thimbleby – Wales Uk

Creativity, innovation and taking risk in your research
Most people just “do” research without thinking strategically about their work, their interests and how to do better. What is their plan when a paper or a funding application gets...
Human error is not the problem
Error, if it was a disease, would be classified as the third biggest killer after cancer and heart disease. Why is it neglected, and what can be done?
Missed solutions to WWII Enigma design weaknesses
The German World War II Enigma suffered from design weaknesses that facilitated its large-scale decryption by the British throughout the war. The main technical weaknesses (self-coding and...
Pirate talks: Getting to great presentations
Pirates say Arrrrr! This is the best mnemnonic on how to give great presentations: audience, remember, route...

Pirate Harold Thimbleby...
Social network analysis and interactive device design analysis
All interactive systems respond to what users do by changing what they are doing Ñ though sometimes maybe not in the way you intended! What they were doing before and after any particular...
Unsafe in any bed
‘Unsafe At Any Speed’ was the title of Ralph Nader’s damning critique of the 1960s car industry. We are at a similar position with today’s healthcare: Terrible, but quite...

Aida Todri-Sanial – Montpellier, France

Physical Design Challenges and Solutions for Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuits
Three-dimensional (3-D) ICs offer dense integration of heterogeneous technologies with a small footprint. Interconnection of the various tiers by means of through-silicon...
Toward Carbon Nanotube Interconnects for Nanoelectronics
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) due their unique electrical, thermal and mechanical properties are being investigated as promising candidate material for on-chip and off-chip interconnects. The...

Jean Vanderdonckt – Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

Animated Transitions in User Interface Design.
Animated transitions are widely used in many different domains of human activity, ranging from cartoons and movies to computer science for powerfully conveying a message more effectively and...
Context-aware adaptation of user interfaces.
Efficient adaptation aims at ensuring that a user interface is adapted to a user’s task according to the context of use, since the end user is carrying out a task with one or several...
Distributed User Interfaces.
Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs) are user interfaces whose elements are distributed in time and space in order to support one or many users to carry out one or many tasks on one or many domains...
Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces.
Heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method that consists of submitting any user interface of an interactive system to a set of recognized principles, called heuristics. These heuristics...
Model-based and Model-driven engineering of user interfaces: The UsiXML experience.

In order to be relieved from empirical and opportunistic development of user interfaces and to promote a genuine and rigorous approach throughout the development life cycle,...
Multimodal web user interfaces.
Web applications are not limited to graphical interaction, they are now open to vocal, tactile, gestural, and multimodal interaction. This lecture provides an overview of these interaction...
Pen-based gestures and sketching.
Incorporating pen-based gestures in a graphical user interface induces several questions: which gesture should represent which command? What is the most appropriate gesture set when all gestures...

Rakesh Verma – Houston, TX, United States

Programming Without Tears?
Can you imagine a sorting program that is two lines? A Quicksort Program that fits on a PowerPoint slide? In...
Talking to Computers - A Solved Problem?
Life would be so much easier if computers could read and understand our directions in English, talk to people, and perhaps also compose stories and poems for them. Siri and Cortana...
Wireless Sensor Networks: Security, Protocols and Countermeasures
Wireless Sensor Networks are increasingly being deployed in hazardous and hostile environments for numerous civil and military applications such as sensing the environment, biosensors, etc. They...

Arun Vishwanath – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Improving Building Energy Efficiency Using IoT-Driven Analytics
The United Nations estimates that the buildings sector accounts for about 40% of global energy consumption. In...
Modelling Energy Consumption in High-Capacity Routers and Switches
Internet equipment such as routers and switches are major contributors to the energy consumption of modern networks. Many energy efficiency metrics for these high-capacity devices are...
Towards an Energy Efficient Internet Core with Near-Zero Buffers
Reducing the power consumption of core Internet routers is important for both Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and router vendors. ISPs can reduce their Carbon footprint and operational...

Ellen M Voorhees – Gaithersburg, MD, United States

Information Retrieval Challenge Problems
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a series of workshops designed to advance the state-of-the-art in information retrieval by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale...
Measuring Search Effectiveness
In contrast to most areas of computer science research, information retrieval research has a rich tradition of experimentation dating back to the 1960s. This experimental methodology...
The Text REtrieval Conference
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has created standard test sets and evaluation methodology to support the development of...

Yu Wang – Beijing, China

Neural Network on Emerging Memory: From Applications to Circuits on ReRAM
The world is experiencing a data revolution to discover knowledge in big data. Large scale neural networks are one of the mainstream tools of big data analytics. However,...

Bebo White – San Francisco, CA, United States

Cybercurrencies and Blockchain (fiction, fallacy, fact, fun, and future)
Hardly a day goes by without a news story about Bitcoin or Ethereum, two of the best known and strongest cybercurrency technologies. Opinions run the spectrum, from those who view it as...
Preparing for the Internet of Things
The Internet as we have known it for the past three+ decades is in the midst of a major and disruptive change. “The Internet of Things (IOT)” will bring opportunities that could...
Storages Are Not Forever
Like the well-known concern over diminishing fossil fuels, information technology is bringing its own unique future challenges. This lecture describes one of the most fundamental of these...
The Future of User Interaction Design
User interaction design is one of the most active and exciting research and development areas in computer science. As IT becomes more pervasive in every aspect of day-to-day life, interaction...
The Web: A Nostalgic View of the Past and Informed Hopes for the Future
This lecture draws upon the speaker’s 30-year love affair with WWW technology – from his first exposure at CERN in 1989 and the first US Web site at SLAC in 1991 to his current...

Tao Xie – Raleigh, IL, United States

Automated Developer Testing: Achievements and Challenges
Developer testing, a common step in software development, involves generating sufficient test inputs and checking the behavior of the program under test during the execution of the test inputs....
Cooperative Developer Testing: How Human and Machine Cooperate to Get Job Done
Tool automation to reduce manual effort has been an active research area in various subfields of software engineering such as developer testing (where developers test their code as they write it)....
Improving Software Reliability via Mining Software Engineering Data
Since late 90’s, various data mining techniques have been applied to analyze software engineering data, and have achieved many noticeable successes in improving software reliability....
Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and Challenges
Producing industrial impact has often been one of the important goals of academic or industrial researchers when conducting research. However, it is generally challenging to transfer research...
PhD-Program Preparation for Successful Post-PhD Career
It is valuable for PhD students to think ahead on what kinds of career paths the students intend to seek and what kinds of skills such career paths would require the students to have. This talk...
Software Analytics: Data Analytics for Software Engineering
A huge wealth of various data exists in software life cycle, including source code, feature specifications, bug reports, test cases, execution traces/logs, and real-world user feedback, etc. Data...
Systematic Testing and Verification of Security Policies
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used privacy and security mechanisms at both application and network levels. Given the high importance and delicacy of security policies,...
Teaching and Learning Programming and Software Engineering via Interactive Gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pex4fun.com/) and Code Hunt (https://www.codehunt.com/), released by Microsoft Research, offer a web-based educational gaming platform for teaching and learning programming and...
Text Analytics for Mobile App Security and Beyond
Mobile apps are accompanied by a rich amount of natural language text: app descriptions, app user reviews, update/release notes, etc. Such natural language text is essential in conveying important...
Transferring an Automated Test Generation Tool to Practice
Producing industry impacts has been an important, yet challenging task for the research community. Although there are a few cases on reporting "what to do" (reflecting good things to...

Moustafa A Youssef – New Borg Elarab City, Alexandria, Egypt

Device-free Localization: The future for Ubiquitous Sensing

WLAN Device-free Passive (DfP) localization is an emerging field in location determination enabling the localization of entities that neither carry any devices nor participate...
Indoor Geographic Information Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Traditional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) focus on capturing and analyzing outdoor geographical data. However, there is no corresponding effort for indoor data and indoor GISs remain...
Location-aware Routing for Cognitive Radio Networks
Multi-hop cognitive radio networks (CRNs) are gaining interest recently in many practical applications. With location information becoming more available, designing location-aware routing...
New Paradigms for Location Determination Technologies
In this talk, we explore two recent developments in localization systems: Device-free localization and and ubiquitous indoor localization. In the first part of the talk, we present the...
Next Generation Geo-location Databases
FCC regulations allow unlicensed usage of unoccupied portions of the UHF spectrum. Spectrum opportunities are mainly governed by geo-location databases that determine the set of available...
The GPS Challengers: New trends in Outdoor Localization
Location-based services (LBS) have become an integral part of our daily life with applications including car navigation, location-based social networks, and context-aware predication and...
Ubiquitous Indoor Localization: The Indoor Equivalent of GPS
Although GPS has been considered a ubiquitous outdoor localization technology, we are still far from a similar technology for indoor environments. While a number of technologies have been...
Wireless Physical Layer Security, From Theory to Practice
Despite recent progress, the vulnerability of wireless networks to security threats remains a major obstacle hindering the adoption of wireless technologies in various military, scientific,...

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti – Nicosia, Cyprus

Internet-based Indoor Navigation Services
This talk presents the fundamental mobile data management concepts behind the realization of innovative indoor information services that deal with all aspects of handling indoor data as a...

Kang Zhang – Richardson, TX, United States

Visual Programming Languages, Theory and Applications
Visual languages have long been a pursuit of effective communication between human and machine. Today, they are successfully employed for end-user programming, modeling, rapid prototyping, and...