Conference Program

ICS 2017 Conference Program

June 14-16, 2017
Chicago, IL, USA

PDF version of the program and session details can also be downloaded HERE.
The venue of the conference is the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (Rubloff Aspen Hall – RB150), in Chicago Downtown. Here is a detailed map.

Wednesday, June 14
8:15-8:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30-9:30 Keynote: Intel Nervana:Intel Nervana: Leading the Evolution of Enterprise AI – By Dr. Amir Khosrowshahi
9:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-12:00 Session 1: Automata and Tree-mining optimization
12:00-13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30-15:00 Session 2: GPUs – Part 1
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Session 3: Compilation Techniques
18:00-20:00 Reception (Thorne Auditorium Lobby – Behind Rubloff Hall)
Thursday, June 15
8:30-9:30 Keynote : Architecture and Optimization on Baidu’s AI Computing Platform – By Dr. Long Wang
09:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-12:00 Session 4: GPUs – Part 2
12:00-13:30 Lunch (on your own)
13:30-15:00 Session 5: Application Load Imbalance, Task and Data Mapping
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Session 6: Hardware Design
17:30-20:00 Social event : Navy Pier Cruise
Friday, June 16
08:30-10:00 Session 7 : Runtimes and  algorithms for parallel-application performance and reliability support
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-13:00 Session 8: Data Aggregation and Hardware/Software Co-design Approaches