Program

Wednesday, 24 March

Evening chair: Simon Moore

19:00: Dinner

20:00: Invited talk - Jim Austin: Collecting old computers - an obsession or a necessity?

20:45: Adjourn to the bar

Thursday, 25 May

Morning chair: Steve Furber

09:30 Andrew Brown: Introduction and welcome

09:40 Invited talk - Asen Asenov: Forever CMOS?

10:20 Simon Moore: Curing your design blues with Bluespec SystemVerilog

10:45 Roger Woods: Producing music from electronics

11:10 Coffee and posters

11:40 Vassilios Chouliaras: The LE1 configurable VLIW engine

11:55 Piotr Dudek: 3D chips

12:30 Lunch

Afternoon chair: Andrew Brown

13:40 Steve Hall: The eFutures network

14:00 Andrew Brown: The Grand Challenge Debate

14:05 Steve Furber, on: SpiNNaker: Computing beyond a million processors

14:30 Ian Philips, on: Why the concept is fundamentally flawed

14:50 Interim vote

14:55 Tea

15:30 Steve Furber: A gentlemanly riposte

15:40 Ian Phillips: A response as only Ian can deliver

15:50 The People Debate...

16:20 The final vote

16:30 (ish) Close