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
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