[Crib-list] This week: IEEE HPEC Sep 25-29 (next week!): 125+ Free Virtual Talks on AI, Big Data, Algorithms, Computing, Cyber, ..

Sun Sep 24 15:39:19 EDT 2023

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Colleagues,
  The Sep 25-29 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC [1]) free
virtual conference, organized by MIT in cooperation with SIAM, is the
largest computing conference in New England with 125+ talks (30+ AI
talks), 30+ MIT affiliated presentations from over 50 MIT affiliated
authors many featuring MIT AI Accelerator projects [2]. Check out the
preliminary agenda [3].

Free registration is available at: http://www.ieee-hpec.org/ [4]

HPEC has a wide range of cutting edge work on: AI, large language models
(LLMs), machine learning, big data, graph analytics, cloud computing,
sensor processing, cyber, parallel computing, GPU computing, database
technology, quantum computing, ..., tutorials, and many distinguished
invited speakers:

2023 DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

  	* DAY 1 KEYNOTE: Steve Oberlin [5] (NVIDIA CTO for Accelerated
Computing) – The Future Of Supercomputing in an AI World
	* DAY 2 KEYNOTE: Eileen Vidrine [6] (Department of the Air Force Chief
Data & AI Officer) – Mission Critical: Power of Operationalizing Data
& AI
	* DAY 3 KEYNOTE: Dr. Pradeep Dubey [7] (Intel Senior Fellow) – AI for
Digital Health & Computational Biology
	* DAY 4 KEYNOTE: Prof. Michael Stonebraker [8] (MIT CSAIL [9] & ACM
A.M. Turing Award Winner [10]) – Linux is Legacy. Hear What Should
Replace It.
	* DAY 5 KEYNOTE: Dr. Ivan Sutherland [11] (von Neumann Medal & ACM A.M.
Turing Award Winner [12]) – Speeding Progress, Advice for Research
Managers
	* Miguel Amigot II [13] (IBL Education) – Building AI Mentors with
Custom Indexes, Prompts, Guardrails and APIs
	* Lt. Col. Dr. Sean Atkins [14] (USAF) – Integration of Effort in
National Cyber Defense
	* Lt. Col. Dr. Andrew Bowne [15] (USAF) – Legal Opportunities and
Challenges
	* Dr. Mike Cafarella [16] (MIT CSAIL) – Information Extraction for
Models
	* Dr. James Cuff [17] (MIT Office of Research Computing and Data) –
Team Building Inside a Highly Decentralized System: The MIT Office of
Research Computing and Data
	* Justin Curtis [18] (Chief of Staff, Sen. Finegold) – Crafting a
Legislative Framework for the Age of Generative AI: Insights from
ChatGPT
	* Dr. Sudip Dosanjh [19] (NERSC Director, LBL) – TBD
	* Prof. William Green [20] (MIT ChemE & AAAS Fellow) – Combining
Physical Laws, AI, HPC, and Experiment to Predict Chemical Reactions and
Properties
	* Dr. Bill Harrod [21] (IARPA Program Manager) – The IARPA AGILE
Program
	* Frank Indiviglio [22] (CTO, NOAA) – Observing & Modeling the Earth
System: Innovation at NOAA
	* Dimitrios Ioannidis, Esq. [23] (Partner at Roach, Ioannidis &
Megaloudis, LLC) – Legal Aspects of Generative AI
	* Dr. Daniel S. Katz [24] (Chief Scientist, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois)
– Training Next Generation AI Users & Developers at NCSA
	* Arianna Martin [25] (British Petroleum – NAG Partner) – High
‘PI’-Performance Computing: Leveraging Raspberry Pis to Introduce
Young Learners to HPC, Linux, and Parallel Programming
	* Prof. Rocael Hernández Rizzardini [26] (Galileo Univ.) – Enhancing
Education with AI-Generated Content

2023 SPECIAL EVENTS (TENTATIVE)

  	* ChatGPT, Bard, and other Large Language Models: Opportunities and
Challenges [27]; organizer: Dr. Vijay Gadepally [28] (MIT LLSC)
	* MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge [29]
	* GraphBLAS Forum [30] to define standard building blocks for graph
algorithms; organizers: Dr. Timothy Mattson [31](Intel); Dr. Scott
McMillan [32] (CMU SEI)
	* BRAINS: Building Resilience through Artificial Intelligence for
Networked Systems [33]; organizer: Dr. Sandeep Pisharody [34] (MIT LL)
	* Tutorial: SPIRAL; organizers: Prof. Franz Franchetti and Mike
Franusich (http://www.spiral.net/tutorial-spiral.html [35])
	* Scaling HPC Education [36]; organizers: Dr. Julie Mullen [37] (MIT
LLSC), Lauren Milechen [38] (MIT EAPS), and Dr. Hayden Jananthan (MIT
LLSC)
	* Open SuperComputing forum; organizer: Kurt Keville [39] (UMass
Boston)

Links:
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[1] https://ieee-hpec.org/
[2] 
https://aia.mit.edu/2023/08/31/daf-mit-ai-accelerator-research-projects-featured-at-ieee-hpec-conference/
[3] https://ieee-hpec.org/index.php/ieee-hpec-2023-prelim-agenda/
[4] http://www.ieee-hpec.org/
[5] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/soberlin/
[6] 
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1889687/eileen-m-vidrine/
[7] 
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/featured-researchers/pradeep-dubey.html
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
[9] https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/michael-stonebraker
[10] https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/stonebraker_1172121.cfm
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
[12] https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/sutherland_3467412.cfm
[13] https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguelamigot/
[14] https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-atkins-69873b96
[15] https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-bowne-8b9918b0/
[16] https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/michael-cafarella
[17] https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcuff/
[18] https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-curtis-213775111/
[19] 
https://www.nersc.gov/about/nersc-staff/center-leadership/sudip-dosanjh/
[20] https://cheme.mit.edu/profile/william-h-green/
[21] 
https://www.iarpa.gov/who-we-are/program-managers/dr-bill-harrod?keyword=Dr.%20Bill%20Harrod
[22] https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-indiviglio-9039681/
[23] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-ioannidis-4783258/
[24] https://danielskatz.org/
[25] https://www.linkedin.com/in/arianna-r-martin/
[26] 
http://research.ges.galileo.edu/collaborators/rocael-hernandez-rizzardini/
[27] 
http://vijayg.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/LLM_Session_Abstract.pdf
[28] https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijay-gadepally-60017652
[29] https://graphchallenge.mit.edu/
[30] https://graphblas.org/hpec_bof.html
[31] 
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/researchers/tim-mattson.html
[32] https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/author.cfm?authorID=301616
[33] http://pisharody.mit.edu/brains
[34] http://pisharody.mit.edu/
[35] http://www.spiral.net/tutorial-spiral.html
[36] https://supercloud.mit.edu/scaling-hpc-education
[37] https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliamullen/
[38] https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-milechin/
[39] https://isn.mit.edu/kurt-l-keville