From: Vijay Karamcheti Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: PARCON'98: Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Date: 26 Oct 1998 20:14:56 GMT Organization: Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <712l80$h7h$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ece.cmu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARCON'98 Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing New York University, Nov. 20, 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9:30 Intelligent RAM and Intelligent Disk David A. Patterson, Pardee Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley 10:30 Coffee Break 11:00 Transmission and Processing of Quantum Information Charles H. Bennet, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 12:00 A Decision-Theoretic Approach to the Design, Analysis, and Specification of Systems Joseph Y. Halpern, Professor of Computer Science and Co-director of the Cognitive Studies Program, Cornell University 1:00 Lunch Break 2:30 Translation Validation and the Power of Uninterpreted Functions Amir Pneuli, Weizmann Institute of Science 3:30 Coffee Break 4:00 Performance and Portability in Numerical Computing William Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory 5:30 Reception --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-chairs: Vijay Karamcheti General Chair: Zvi M. Kedem Krishna V. Palem Advisory Panel: Frances E. Allen, Arvind, K. Mani Chandy, Richard M. Karp, F. Thomas Leighton, Michael O. Rabin (chair) The symposium is open to the public and will be held in Room 703, Main Building, New York University located at 100 Washington Square East, New York City. For further details, including free registration, maps and directions, please visit the PARCON Web page at http://www.cs.nyu.edu/parcon. -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel