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9th BME International 24-hour Programming Contest
by IEEE NTUA Student Branch 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

I am forwarding an announcement of a programming competition organized by affiliate to IEEE student organization of Budapest: Be a part of the adventure! Nine days to go for the registration period of the 9th BME International 24-hour Programming Contest! Registration is possible via the official website of the contest: http://challenge24.org, the deadline is 21th February, 2008. Teams of three can participate, but after registration it is possible to find teammates. After applying, the contestants will have to participate a preliminary round via Internet, held on 28th February between 10.00 and 15.00 (CET), during which they have to solve 7-10 algorithmic problems. The best 30 teams are invited to the finals at Budapest, which will take place between 1-3th May, 2009, all the participants will face with a single but extremely complex task. There is no restriction for the used development environments, operating systems and written materials. Contestants are allowed to use their own computers during the onsite contest as well as on the electronic preliminary round, we provide only food and drink, a power outlet and network connection for the one-day-long challenge. Naturally any connection with the "outer world" is prohibited. Tasks will be created by PhD students of BME, so the contestants can expect interesting and difficult problems to solve, like in the previous years. You can practice a little bit: details about an online judging system (where you can solve the problems from 2008) can be found on the website. To be successful on the contest, participants not only have to write program code fast and precisely, but they need to be familiar with various IT topics, and of course good team work is important too. The total value of awards exceeds 5,000 €, and the best team can also take home the Challenge24 Cup. Like the traditions of the contest, the organizers expect a lot of foreign contestants to apply. Last year 207 teams from 41 countries of 5 continents registered. Besides the high number of European contestants, some of them were from Brazil, United States, Australia and Japan and returned home with great experience. Further information about the contest and the latest news are available on the official website: http://www.challenge24.org. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact with us at challenge24-2008(a)challenge24.org

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Lecture of Prof. Nick Bambos at NTUA
by IEEE NTUA Student Branch 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

To Φοιτητικό Παράρτημα της ΙΕΕΕ του ΕΜΠ σας προσκαλεί στην ομιλία του Professor Nick Bambos Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Power and Throughput Issues in Next-Generation Packet Switches Πέμπτη 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2009, 14:00 Αίθουσα Τελετών - Ισόγειο Κτιρίου Διοίκησης ΕΜΠ Περίληψη ομιλίας: High-speed packet switches achieve increasingly higher throughputs and better jitter management at the expense, however, of substantial increase in utilized power. The latter has become an acute problem, as higher power results in unacceptable thermal stress of switching chips/systems and requires extensive cooling apparatus. Low power circuit design is one way to partially address the problem. Instead, in this talk we focus on operational and algorithmic methods for power managing switches. We present some recent results for power-aware packet scheduling in packet switches. We focus on the power vs. latency tradeoff and discuss how to systematically manage power/speed modes against acceptable packet delays and traffic bursts. The power management algorithms are also aligned with the need to achieve maximal throughput when the traffic load becomes excessive. Σύντομο βιογραφικό: Nick Bambos is a Professor at Stanford University, having a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Management Science & Engineering. He heads the Network Architecture and Performance Engineering research group at Stanford, conducting research in wireless network architectures, the Internet infrastructure, packet switching, network management and information service engineering, engaged in various projects of his Network Architecture Laboratory (NetLab). He is now heading a new research initiative at Stanford on Networked Information Service Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from the University of California at Berkeley (1989), as well as the M.S. in EECS (1987) and the M.A. in Mathematics (1989) from the same University. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens-Greece (1984) with first class honors. Before joining Stanford as an Associate Professor in 1996, he served as Assistant (1990-95) and tenured Associate Professor (1995-96) in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Nick Bambos has held the Cisco Systems Faculty Development Chair (1999-2003) in computer networking at Stanford and has won the IBM Faculty Award (2002) for high-impact research in performance engineering of computer systems and networks. He has received various awards, including the NSF young investigator award, the Cisco Systems Chair at Stanford, the IBM faculty award, etc. He has also been a U.C. Regents Fellow, a David Gale Fellow, and an Earl Anthony Fellow. Πληροφορίες: ΙΕΕΕ NTUA Student Branch, http://ieee.ntua.gr, ieeesb(a)cslab.ece.ntua.gr

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