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<div>  Please share with your colleagues.  The MIT organized High Performance Extreme Computing (<a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/">HPEC</a>) free virtual conference (Sep 14-18) features 200+ presentations (see <a href="https://ieee-hpec.org/ieee-hpec-2026-prelim-agenda/">agenda</a> );
 many on the latest developments in AI.  Register now at <a href="http://ieee-hpec.org/">IEEE-HPEC.org</a></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit;"><a href="https://ciq.com/company/leadership/gregory-kurtzer" style="font-style: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(106, 154, 255); transition: 0.2s linear; box-shadow: none; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; line-height: 1px;">Gregory
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 Timothy Mattson</a> (HLG), <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-brock-617289232/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(106, 154, 255); transition: 0.2s linear; box-shadow: none; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; line-height: 1px;">Dr.
 Ben Brock</a> (Intel), and <a href="https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/author.cfm?authorID=301616" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(106, 154, 255); transition: 0.2s linear; box-shadow: none; font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; line-height: 1px;">Dr.
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Topology Survives Shuffling: Robust Long-Context Memory Access Prediction for Graph Analytics [Outstanding Student Paper Award]</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5em 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Scalable Cross-Aircraft Flight Phase Classification Using Transfer Learning and ADS-B Data</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5em 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Yohannes Abateneh (Florida A&M Univ.), Steven Gardiner (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Kimieka D. Dunkley, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hongmei Chi</i>(Florida A&M Univ.)</dd></dl>
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Accelerating Spiking Neural Network Inference with RISC-V Vector Extension</dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 1.5em 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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ML-Guided Parameter Configuration Selection for Top-Down Stochastic Block Partitioning [Outstanding Student Paper Award]</dt><dd style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px 1.5em 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">
<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Saikat Dey</i>, Wu-chun Feng (Virginia Tech)</dd></dir>
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