SAMOS IX: International Symposium on Systems, Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation Samos, Greece, July 20-23, 2009

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Keynotes

SAMOS 2009 will have the following keynotes:

• Yale Patt from University of Texas-Austin, USA. He will give a BEACHNOTE on Monday afternoon.
  Title: "What else is broken? Can we fix it?"


• Kari Pulli from Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, US.
  Title: Mobile Visual Computing
  Abstract: I will talk about camera phones, how you can use camera as a sensor thatgives natural access to the information about the real world around you (mobile augmented reality) and how you can combine general computation capability to combine several input images into better or more interesting output images (mobile computational photography). I will also discuss about mobile graphics and the latest development on the HW and APIs (OpenGL ES, OpenMAX IL, OpenCL) that allow using graphics hardware for these applications.


• Grant Martin from Tensilica, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, US.
  Title: "Slower than you think" - The Evolution of Processor and SoC Architectures
  Abstract: Research projects talk about thousands of processing elements on an SoC. Various commercial companies talk about their specialised homogeneous or heterogeneous processing arrays. Graphics devices are being applied for solving a variety of computing problems outside their design domain. Finally, it seems that everyone, and their brother, is offering a multicore or multiprocessor programming model to bring all this technology under some control - and if we don't use it, we should all panic. This talk will focus on where we are and where we are likely to go with the evolution of processors and SoC architectures for embedded applications. Driven from a concrete industrial perspective, I will discuss some of the progress made in exploiting advances in processor technology and multiprocessor SoC. I will also discuss some possible future scenarios for evolution in these areas.