Intel Research Pittsburgh Open House 2008
2008 IRP Open House Brochure (pdf)
Please join us for our Open House on October 28th, 2008 from 1pm to 6:00PM!
This annual event is an opportunity to experience the full range of
our research activities and collaborations, via posters,
demonstrations, and direct conversation with the researchers and
students involved. We’ll be showing our latest work with Carnegie
Mellon, UPitt, UPMC, and many others, in personal mobile robots,
computer-assisted medicine, programmable matter, parallel machine
learning, brain-machine interfaces, neighborhood-aware networking,
computational perception, video-based gesture recognition, cloud
computing on big data, big BDDs, multicore system design, and optical
computing.
Please join us to discuss new research and innovation (ours and
yours!), over light refreshments and snacks. We look forward to
welcoming you on Oct 28th!
Schedule of Events
Note: Events in blue are for our Intel visitors and special guests only. All other events are free and open to the public.
Note: All events (except dinner on Monday evening) are at Intel Research Pittsburgh on the CMU campus, CIC Bldg, Suite 410, 4720 Forbes Ave, Pgh, PA,15213
| Mon, Oct 27, 2008 |
| 4:30-5:30pm |
Joint CALCM/Intel Seminar: Chris Wilkerson, Intel, Trading off Cache Capacity for Reliability to Enable Low Voltage Operation (open to the public) |
| 6:30-9:30pm |
Welcome Dinner (Intel only)
Location: Isabella, 1318 Grandview Ave, Pgh, PA, 15211, (412) 431-5882
Transportation provided to/from the 1st floor lobby of the IRP lab, CIC Bldg, 4720, Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, Shuttle pickups at CIC at 6:30, 7:00, and 7:20.
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Example Demos
Here is a small sampling of the demos you'll be seeing:
- Personal Robotics - An autonomous mobile manipulator that
combines our latest research in object recognition, navigation, motion
planning, and grasping to perform complex (for a robot!) kitchen
chores such as searching for, locating, and registering objects in
high clutter, opening doors, manipulating heavy and constrained
objects, and placing objects in cabinets, shelves, or the
refrigerator, or handing them to members of the audience (with the CMU
Robotics Institute and Intel Research Seattle).
- Dynamic Physical Rendering - Objects that change shape
under software control and in response to human interaction to enable
morphable, tangible 3D displays and user interfaces. See the hardware
and software research progress we've made in the last year toward this
tantalizing goal, as well as the latest ideas we have about
applications for DPR (with the CMU CS and ECE
departments, and the Air Force Research Lab).
- Gestris - A Tetris game that you play using gestures. Wii
without the remote! (with the CMU Robotics Institute).
- Computer-Assisted Medicine - Computer systems that help
doctors diagnose skin cancer, eye diseases, and track stem cells as
they reproduce (with the CMU Robotics Institute,
UPitt Medical School, UPMC, and Georgia Tech).
- Wireless Access Point Localization - A wardriving-based
system that can pinpoint the locations of the wireless access points
in neighborhood (with the CMU CS Department and
Intel Research Seattle).
- Fast Parallel Object Recognition - A vision system that
uses parallel cluster-computing to recognize objects in videos in real
time (with Intel Research Seattle and Intel Research
Berkeley).
- Tashi - A cluster management system for cloud computing on
big data. The demo will include stress testing of the system-- find
out how many virtual machines can successfully play musical chairs on
Tashi (with the CMU PDL lab).
- Log-Based Architectures - Runtime software
correctness-checking is becoming an increasingly valuable feature as
the size of software systems continues to grow. Our Log-Based
Architectures (LBA) design improves the performance of
correctness-checking through the addition of new processor hardware.
However, additional techniques are required to (1) take advantage of
data stability in checking tools and (2) cope with multithreaded
applications, particularly with relaxed memory consistency. Both
issues will be presented as part of our demonstration (with the CMU CS and ECE departments).
- BigBDD - Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are data
structures that can be used to solve a number of design and
verification problems. We're developing new algorithms for managing
very large BDDs, "BigBDDs", by processing subsets of the data
structure separately. Try to stump the algorithms as they try to
place dominos on a virtual chess board (with the CMU CS department).
- PCI-Express Over Optics - We demonstrate successful transmission of
PCI-Express traffic between an endpoint device and host computer across a
transparent, all-optical wavelength division multiplexed photonic
interconnection network interface (with Columbia University).
- Digital Signal Processing for Low Cost Optical Links in the Data
Center - Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a
promising technique to transmit data at 10 Gbps and above. We use SPIRAL
automatically-generated FFT/IFFT high-performance IP cores to demonstrate a
real time, multi-gigabit OFDM transmitter using Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA (with University College London and CMU).
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