2008
– 2009 IEEE-BCS Events
Grid and Autonomic Computing – Future Datacenter Perspective Speaker: Dr. Mazin Yousif ABSTRACT:
Current
datacenters deployments are commonly static, provisioned for peak and rely on somewhat simple
centralized management infrastructure. This often increases the
datacenter's Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Cloud architectures and
autonomic computing, relying on technologies such as
virtualization, automation, manageability and dynamic provisioning,
are transforming datacenters from their current static deployments
to SOA (Service-Oriented Architectures) resulting in more efficient
use of resources, space and electrical power, consequently reducing
the TCO of datacenters. This talk will run through several
approaches to alleviate datacenter pain points and set forth the
vision for future dynamic datacenters. Dr. Yousif is currently the Chief Executive
Officer of Avirtec,
Inc., a startup technology company with focus on cyber-security and
autonomic computing. Before that he spent 16+ years at Numonyx, Intel and
IBM corporations. He also served as an adjunct Professor at several
universities including Duke, NCSU, OGI and
IEEE Boise Career Builder Workshop Speaker: Joe Rekiere
iPhone Application Development and Eco-System Speaker: Alexey Piterkin ABSTRACT: By introducing iPhone,
and later iPhone SDK and AppStore, Apple
has radically changed the mobile phone application landscape. We
will look into what iPhone development is about: what the SDK
offers, Objective-C as the main language of the SDK, a brief overview
of tools available to developers, and even some quirks developers
have to deal with. We will conclude by looking at how the AppStore works from a developer's viewpoint and
what opportunities AppStore creates or
does not create for application distribution.
Modeling Image Degradation for Improving Optical Character
Recognition Speaker: Dr. Elisa Barney Smith, ABSTRACT: Clean documents are relatively easy to recognize. However, when
digitizing collections of documents, the clean ones are rarely the
documents that are encountered. The
processes of printing and scanning documents introduce image
degradations that interfere with the segmentation and recognition
processes. Mathematical models of the degradation processes are presented. From these the types of
degradations that are seen can be
quantitatively and qualitatively described. Included in the discussion
are sampling, edge spread, corner erosion, and edge noise. The
relationship between these degradations and common OCR errors is described. By considering the
degradation model, a theoretical foundation is available to improve
the document recognition process.
Intelligent Vehicle: Visual Control Speaker: Dr. Edison Oliveira de Jesus ABSTRACT:
Dr. Edison Oliveira de Jesus from Universidade
Federal de Itajubá in Itjubá
The
main objective is to present methods which could control a vehicle
without human interference. The process is
designed to permit the vehicle to decide its target while
avoiding damage to others or itself.
These ideas could be used in a project developed by
automotive companies or in university research groups.
Principles of Hardware and
Firmware Design SPEAKER:
Gary Stringham, Founder of Gary Stringham and Associates, LLC ABSTRACT:
Too often, hardware/firmware design issues delay schedules,
increase costs, and impact the quality of embedded systems. These
problems force firmware engineers to try to work around the
problems in the chips or, failing that, force respins
of the chips. From the collection and study of these problems, |
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