Abbrevation
PDPTA
City
Las Vegas
Country
United States
Deadline Paper
Start Date
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Abstract

<pre>PDPTA&#8242;09 is being held jointly (same location and dates) with a<br>number of other research conferences (WORLDCOMP&#8242;09)&#046; WORLDCOMP<br>is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science,<br>computer engineering and applied computing&#046;<br>The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research<br>topics into a coordinated research meeting held in a common place at<br>a common time&#046; The main goal is to provide a forum for exchange of<br>ideas in a number of research areas that interact&#046; The model used<br>facilitates communication among researchers from all over the world<br>in different fields of computer science, computer engineering and<br>applied computing&#046; Both inward research and outward research will<br>be covered during PDPTA&#8242;09&#046;<br>PDPTA&#8242;09 and WORLDCOMP&#8242;09 will be composed of research presentations,<br>keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions,<br>and poster presentations&#046; In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial<br>speakers included: Prof&#046; David A&#046; Patterson (U&#046; of California, Berkeley);<br>Prof&#046; Michael J&#046; Flynn (Stanford U&#046;); Prof&#046; John H&#046; Holland (U&#046; of<br>Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof&#046; H&#046; J&#046; Siegel (Colorado State U&#046;); Prof&#046; Barry<br>Vercoe (MIT); Prof&#046; Ruzena Bajcsy (U&#046; of California, Berkeley); Prof&#046; Jun<br>Liu (Harvard U&#046;); Dr&#046; Jim Gettys (OLPC + developer of X Window); and many<br>other distinguished speakers&#046; For this year&#8242;s conference, the keynote<br>speakers include: Prof&#046; Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing),<br>Dr&#046; Eric Drexler (Father of Nanotechnology), Prof&#046; Brian Athey (Head,<br>NIH National Center for Computational Medicine &amp; Biology), Dr&#046; Jose Munoz<br>(Deputy Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure),<br>and many other distinguished speakers&#046;</pre>