CS 8803 ACT: Alternative Computing Technologies (Spring 2014)


Instructor: Hadi Esmaeilzadeh


Email: hadi [AT] cc [DOT] gatech [DOT] edu
Phone: (404) 385-1731
Office: KACB 2336
Office hours: by appointment


TA: Jongse Park (jspark [AT] gatech [DOT] edu)


Location: Ford Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T) building, L1205
Time: MW 3:05 - 4:25pm

Schedule

 

Date

Topic

Reading Assignment

Presenter

1

01/06/2014

Dark Silicon

Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era

 Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Lecture

Quiz1 Solution

2

01/08/2014

Approximate Computing

Green: A Framework for Supporting Energy-Conscious Programming using Controlled Approximation

 

Amir Yazdanbakhsh

3

01/13/2014

Approximate Computing

Managing Performance vs. Accuracy Trade-offs With Loop Perforation

 

Kangqi Ni

4

01/15/2014

Approximate Computing

EnerJ: Approximate Data Types for Safe and General Low-Power Computation

 

Jake Cobb

5

01/20/2014

M.L.K, Jr. National Holiday

 

 

6

01/22/2014

Approximate Computing

Architecture Support for Disciplined Approximate Programming

Bhaskar Balachander

7

01/27/2014

Approximate Computing

SAGE: Self-Tuning Approximation on Graphics Engines

Sunjae Park

8

01/29/2014

Campus Closed

9

02/03/2014

Approximate Computing

ERSA: Error Resilient System Architecture for Probabilistic Applications

Chiachen Chou

10

02/05/2014

Approximate Computing

Probabilistic System-on-a-Chip Architectures

Sindhuja Sethuraman

11

02/10/2014

Neuromorphic Computing

Memristive devices for computing

Prashant Nair

12

02/12/2014

Campus Closed

13

02/17/2014

Neuromorphic Computing

An Introduction to Neural Networks and Deep Belief Networks

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

14

02/19/2014

Hadi Traveling

 

15

02/24/2014

Neuromorphic Computing

Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs

Jongse Park Girish Mururu

16

02/26/2014

Neuromorphic Computing

Bridging the Semantic Gap: Emulating Biological Neuronal Behaviors with Simple Digital Neurons

Jae Ha Kung Atul Srivatsan K R

17

03/03/2014

ASPLOS 2014

 

 

18

03/05/2014

ASPLOS 2014

19

03/10/2014

Stochastic Computing

Survey of Stochastic Computing

Sabyasachi Deyati
Ranjini Subramaniam

20

03/12/2014

Perpetual Computing

Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems

Marat Dukhan Casey Battaglino

21

03/17/2014

Spring Break

 

 

22

03/19/2014

Spring Break

 

 

23

03/24/2014

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

 

 

24

03/26/2014

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

25

03/31/2014

NSF


26

04/02/2014

Perpetual Computing

Design Challenges for Secure Implantable Medical Devices


Mementos: System Support for Long-Running Computation on RFID-Scale Devices

Joaquin Chung Miranda


Amit Karande

27

04/07/2014

Biological Computing

DNA-based Molecular Architecture with Spatially Localized Components

 

Xin Zhang

28

04/09/2014

Biological Computing

A Hierarchical Architecture for Adaptive Brain-Computer Interfacing Project


Silicon Meets Life: The ReNaChip Project

Bradley Thwaites

29

04/14/2014

Human-based Computing

TurKit: Human Computation Algorithms on Mechanical Turk

Nitesh Prabhu Niveditha Raveendran

30

04/16/2014

Human-based Computing

AUTOMAN: A Platform for Integrating Human-Based and Digital Computation

 

Chris Porter

31

04/21/2014

Project Presentation

 

 

32

04/23/2014

Project Presentation