UPCRC Multicore Applications Workshop
Microsoft Research — Redmond, WA
May 28-29, 2009
Microsoft brought together researchers from UPCRC Illinois, UC Berkeley, Intel, and Microsoft to discuss current and future applications that would benefit from multicore parallelism and hasten the adoption of multicore machines. A broad range of novel, interesting, and computationally challenging applications — whether or not they currently take advantage of multicore computers &mdash were presented in four key areas: Visual Computing, Social Interaction, Speech and Audio, and Human-Machine Interaction.
Video and slides of most presentations are below.
Session I: Visual Computing I
- Parallel Computer Vision Algorithms — Rick Szeliski, Microsoft Research
- Video Event Detection/Hand Tracking — Dennis Lin/Mert Dickman, UPCRC Illinois
- Robust Face Recognition — Andrew Wagner, UPCRC Illinois
Session II: Visual Computing II
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NOTE: video/slides are not available for this session
- Medical Imaging and Parallel Computing — Dubey Pradeep, Intel Research
- Image-Based Rendering — Sanjay Patel, UPCRC Illinois
- Advanced MR Image Reconstruction using GPU-level Parallelism — Justin Halder, UPCRC Illinois
- Content Based Image Retrieval — Bryan Catanzaro, UC Berkeley
Session III: Social Interaction
- Intel's Immersive Connected Experience Research — Jim Held, Intel Research
- Telepresense — Philip Chou, Microsoft Research
- Parallelizing Speech Recognition and Making it Better — Nelson Morgan, UC Berkele
Session IV: Speech and Audio
- The Breadth of Applications for Music — Eric Battenberg, UC Berkele
- Telepresense — Philip Chou, Microsoft Research
Session V: Human-Machine Interaction I
- Personalized Medicine from Medical Imaging and Advanced Computation — Tony Keaveny, UC Berkeley
- Design for User Experience Applications — Gad Scheaffer, Intel Research
- Optimizing Game Architectures with Task-Based Parallelism — Brad Werth, Intel Research
- Parallelizing Machine Learning: Applications to Recommender Systems, Computer Go, and Bioinformatics — David Stern, Microsoft Research
Session VI: Human-Machine Interaction II
- Computational Challenges of Open-World Intelligence — Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research
- Dynamic Virtual Environments — John Hart, UPCRC Illinois
- Parallelizing the Web Browser — Ras Bodik, UC Berkeley
- Designing and Implementing Secure Web Browsers — Sam King, UPCRC Illinois
UPCRC Illinois is a joint research effort of the Illinois department of computer science and the Coordinated Science Laboratory, with funding from corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. Its work is conducted by faculty members and graduate students from the departments of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois.
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