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Keynote Speakers

Dr. Yale Patt

Yale Patt is Professor of ECE and the Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He directs the research of 13 PhD students in high performance computer architecture and implementation, and enjoys teaching both large undergraduate classes and small advanced graduate seminars. He has, for more than 35 years, combined an active research program with extensive consulting in industry and a strong commitment to teaching. He has received a number of awards for his research and teaching, including the IEEE Emmanuel R. Piore Medal in 1995, the IEEE/ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1996, the IEEE Wallace W. McDowell Award in 1999, and the ACM Karl V.  Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, in 2000. His vital concern with the way we introduce computing to undergraduate computer science and engineering majors has led to his visionary "motivated" bottom-up approach. With his former student, Professor Sanjay J. Patel of the University of Illinois, he co-authored "Introduction to Computing Systems, from Bits and Gates to C and Beyond," published by McGraw-Hill in 2001, and now in its 2nd edition (2004). Yale Patt earned his BS at Northeastern and MS and PhD at Stanford, all in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and of the ACM.. For more information on Dr. Patt, click here

Dr. H. J. Siegel

H. J. Siegel was appointed the George T. Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University (CSU) in August 2001, where he is also a Professor of Computer Science. In December 2002, he became the first Director of the CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC), a university-wide organization for promoting, facilitating, and enhancing CSU’s research, education, and outreach activities pertaining to the design and innovative application of computer, communication, and information systems. From 1976 to 2001, he was a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He received two B.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the M.A., M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. Prof. Siegel has co-authored over 300 published technical papers in the areas of parallel and distributed computing and communications. He was a Coeditor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and was on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Computers. For more information on Dr. Siegel, click here