ACEED 2002

IBM Austin Conference on Energy-Efficient Design

February 25-27, 2002
Austin, Texas

IBM Austin Research Laboratory's Low-Power Computing Research Center is pleased to call for papers for the first annual Austin Conference on Energy-Efficient Design.  This conference provides a forum to exchange ideas on low-power techniques and methodologies and to promote research on critical areas relating to future energy-efficient computing.  The conference will consist of a public session on Monday, February 25th, in which university, government researchers, and IBMers will participate.  Tuesday and Wednesday will consist of IBM internal sessions, and smaller breakout sessions.  The results of the conference will be reported back to the company through the IBM Corporate Technology Council.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Energy-efficient design methodology, modeling, technology and computer-aided design
 - Logic synthesis
 - Verification
 - Physical design
 - System wide power analysis and simulation
 - Manufacturability

Energy-efficient VLSI
 - Architectures and microarchitectures for energy efficiency.
 - Custom accelerators for improved energy efficiency
 - Energy-efficient digital and analog circuit design.
 - CMOS devices and technology for low power.
 - Packaging and cooling issues
 - Power generation and conversion.
 - Clocking and latching for power efficiency.

Energy-efficient systems
 - Disk drives and storage systems
 - System software and applications
 - Energy-efficient operating systems
 - Energy-efficient code optimizations
 - Power-efficient server design
 - Pervasive systems and applications
 - Wired and wireless applications

We invite you to submit a title and 1-2 paragraph abstract by e-mail to Stephanie Shaffer at renae@us.ibm.com.  Please indicate whether this should be considered for the PUBLIC session or the IBM INTERNAL session. All abstracts must be received by January 15, 2002 in order 
to have ample time to put together a program. Each presentation is expected to be 25 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for Q&A.  Exceptions, e.g., more time for tutorials, will be considered. Work does not have to be original research but can have tutorial value.

Important dates:

  - January 15, 2002: 1-2 paragraph abstract due
  - January 22, 2002: acceptance notifications e-mailed
  - February 15, 2002: electronic presentations due

Acceptable formats for electronic presentations include:  
Microsoft Powerpoint, Lotus Freelance, and Adobe PDF.  

For more information please visit: http://www.research.ibm.com/arl/news/aceed/

You may direct questions or suggestions to the conference organizers:
Chuck Alpert, alpert@us.ibm.com
Charles Lefurgy, lefurgy@us.ibm.com
Marisa Mace, marisa@us.ibm.com
Kevin Nowka, nowka@us.ibm.com
Stephanie Shaffer, renae@us.ibm.com