Keynote Addresses
Joe Macri, Corporate Vice President and CTO of the Client Division, AMD
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture
Date/Time: Monday, January 30, 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Bio: It's a well-understood maxim in the technology industry that software and hardware must evolve in parallel, and be well matched, to achieve greatness. With the introduction of the world's first APU last year, AMD pointed the world toward a new way of computing. This was very much a first step in an architectural journey that is well underway at AMD. APUs combine different processing engines in single-chip combinations to strike a unique balance between the dimensions of performance, power consumption and price. Hear how AMD is working to ease the programmer's access to this new level of compute horsepower and dramatically expand the processing resources available to modern applications.
Bio: Joe Macri is a Corporate Vice President and CTO of the Client Division at AMD. He is a 25 year veteran of the computer industry and has held various positions at Digital Equipment Corp, ATI and AMD. Mr. Macri is also Chairman of Jedec JC42.3 Dram Committee and Vice Chair at Large of Jedec Board of Directors. His areas of expertise are in CPU, Memory and Graphics design with over 20 patents pending or granted.
Ilan Spillinger, CVP Hardware and Technology, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 31, 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Bio: Ilan Spillinger, Corporate Vice President for Hardware and Technology within the Interactive Entertainment Business, joined Microsoft in late 2007. He currently leads the Xbox 360 and Kinect architecture and verification, silicon design, hardware incubation, and business development efforts for the Interactive Entertainment Business Hardware division. This team of engineers spans across three global sites including Redmond, Silicon Valley, and Israel.
Previously, during a six-year tenure with IBM, Spillinger served as a distinguished engineer and vice president for advanced processor design. In that role he was responsible for development of all Power Architecture-based processors at IBM: server processors, embedded processors and client-driven solutions. Prior to that, Spillinger was a principal engineer and manager of the architecture team in Intel Israel, responsible for the definition of x86-based low-cost and low-power microprocessors, specifically the first Intel mobile processor in the Intel Centrino roadmap.
Spillinger holds a D.Sc. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
Prith Banerjee, SVP Research, Hewlett Packard and Director of HP Labs
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 1, 12:00pm - 12:30pm
Bio: Prith Banerjee is senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs, the company's central research organization. In these roles, he assists the HP executive vice president of strategy and technology in charting technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide.
Most recently, Banerjee was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also is the founder, chairman and chief scientist of BINACHIP Inc., a developer of products and services in electronic design automation. Previously, Banerjee was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and chairman of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was the director of the Computational Science and Engineering program and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2000, Banerjee founded AccelChip Inc., a developer of products and services for electronic design automation, which was sold to Xilinx Inc. in 2006.
Banerjee's research interests are in very-large-scale integration (VLSI) computer-aided design, parallel computing and compilers, and he is the author of about 300 research papers in these areas. Banerjee currently serves on the Computer Science Advisory Board of the National Academy of Engineering and the advisory board for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. In the past, he has served on the technical advisory boards of companies such as Ambit Design Systems, Atrenta and Calypto Design Systems.
Banerjee is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a recipient of the 1996 American Society for Engineering Education Terman Award and the 1987 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award. He received a Bachelor of Technology in electronics and electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, and a Master of Science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
