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Mon 5 Nov
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08:30 - 10:00
Keynote: Wrigstad
AGERE
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Cabot
08:30
15m
Talk
Welcome and Introduction
AGERE
08:45
75m
Talk
Concurrency vs. Parallelism in Encore (...and Types)
Keynote
AGERE
Tobias Wrigstad
Uppsala University
10:30 - 12:00
Distributed Systems
AGERE
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Cabot
10:30
30m
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A Configurable Transport Layer for CAF
AGERE
Raphael Hiesgen
HAW Hamburg
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Dominik Charousset
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Thomas C. Schmidt
HAW Hamburg
Link to publication
DOI
File Attached
11:00
30m
Talk
Distributed Functional Reactive Programming on Actor-Based Runtime
AGERE
Kazuhiro Shibanai
Tokyo Institute of Technology
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Takuo Watanabe
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Link to publication
DOI
11:30
30m
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Observable atomic consistency for CvRDTs
AGERE
Xin Zhao
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Philipp Haller
KTH, Sweden
13:30 - 15:00
Parallel Systems
AGERE
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Cabot
13:30
30m
Talk
Chocola: Integrating Futures, Actors, and Transactions
AGERE
Janwillem Swalens
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Joeri De Koster
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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Wolfgang De Meuter
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
14:00
30m
Talk
Concurrent Garbage Collection in the Actor Model
AGERE
Dan Plyukhin
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Gul Agha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
14:30
30m
Talk
Attached and Detached Closures in Actors
AGERE
Elias Castegren
Uppsala University
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Dave Clarke
Uppsala Univ. Sweden and KU Leuvern
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Kiko Fernandez-Reyes
Uppsala University
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Tobias Wrigstad
Uppsala University
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Albert Mingkun Yang
Uppsala University
15:30 - 17:00
WIP
AGERE
at
Cabot
15:30
30m
Talk
Implementing Linking in Multiparty Sessions
AGERE
Hanwen Wu
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Hongwei Xi
Boston University
16:00
30m
Talk
Compositional Programming and Testing of Actor Programs
AGERE
Ankush Desai
University of California, Berkeley
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Shaz Qadeer
Microsoft Research
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Sanjit Seshia
UC Berkeley
Tue 6 Nov
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08:00 - 10:00
AI SEPS
AI-SEPS
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Cabot
Chair(s):
Ali Jannesari
Iowa State University
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Yukinori Sato
Toyohashi University of Technology
08:00
50m
Talk
Deep Learning at Scale
Keynote
AI-SEPS
Prabhat
NERSC, Berkeley Lab
08:50
25m
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PIRA: Performance Instrumentation Refinement Automation
AI-SEPS
Jan-Patrick Lehr
Graduate School of Computational Engineering, TU Darmstadt
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Alexander Hück
Institute for Scientific Computing, TU Darmstadt
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Christian Bischof
Scientific Computing, TU Darmstadt
09:15
15m
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PyGA: A Python to FPGA compiler prototype
AI-SEPS
Yohann Uguen
Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI
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Eric Petit
Intel, France
09:30
30m
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Panel discussion
AI-SEPS
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Yukinori Sato
Toyohashi University of Technology
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Ali Jannesari
Iowa State University
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Shigeru Chiba
The University of Tokyo
10:30 - 12:00
Keynote: Stiegler
OCAP
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Cabot
Chair(s):
Marc Stiegler
10:30
60m
Talk
Lost Wisdom of the Ancients
OCAP
Marc Stiegler
11:30
30m
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OCAP Patterns Panel
OCAP
Marc Stiegler
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James Noble
Victoria University of Wellington
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Alan Karp
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JF Paradis
Salesforce
13:30 - 15:00
Capabilities and Effects
OCAP
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Cabot
13:30
30m
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Designing with Static Capabilities and Effects
OCAP
Colin Gordon
Drexel University
14:00
60m
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Formal Methods Panel
OCAP
James Noble
Victoria University of Wellington
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Philipp Haller
KTH, Sweden
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Colin Gordon
Drexel University
15:30 - 17:00
Research Directions
OCAP
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Cabot
15:30
45m
Talk
Using a JavaScript Ocap Security Kernel at Scale
OCAP
JF Paradis
Salesforce
16:15
45m
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Ocaps & Crypto-commerce
OCAP
Jonathan Aldrich
Carnegie Mellon University
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Mark Miller
Agoric
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Chris Lemmer Webber
Mon 5 Nov
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AGERE
Keynote: Wrigstad
AGERE
Distributed Systems
AGERE
Parallel Systems
AGERE
WIP
Tue 6 Nov
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AI-SEPS
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OCAP
Keynote: Stiegler
OCAP
Capabilities and Effects
OCAP
Research Directions
Mon 5 Nov
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Cabot
AGERE
Welcome and Introduction
08:30 - 08:45
AGERE
Keynote
Concurrency vs. Parallelism in Encore (...and Types)
08:45 - 10:00
AGERE
A Configurable Transport Layer for CAF
10:30 - 11:00
AGERE
Distributed Functional Reactive Programming on Actor-Based Runtime
11:00 - 11:30
AGERE
Observable atomic consistency for CvRDTs
11:30 - 12:00
AGERE
Chocola: Integrating Futures, Actors, and Transactions
13:30 - 14:00
AGERE
Concurrent Garbage Collection in the Actor Model
14:00 - 14:30
AGERE
Attached and Detached Closures in Actors
14:30 - 15:00
AGERE
Implementing Linking in Multiparty Sessions
15:30 - 16:00
AGERE
Compositional Programming and Testing of Actor Programs
16:00 - 16:30
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AI-SEPS
Keynote
Deep Learning at Scale
08:00 - 08:50
AI-SEPS
PIRA: Performance Instrumentation Refinement Automation
08:50 - 09:15
AI-SEPS
PyGA: A Python to FPGA compiler prototype
09:15 - 09:30
AI-SEPS
Panel discussion
09:30 - 10:00
OCAP
Lost Wisdom of the Ancients
10:30 - 11:30
OCAP
OCAP Patterns Panel
11:30 - 12:00
OCAP
Designing with Static Capabilities and Effects
13:30 - 14:00
OCAP
Formal Methods Panel
14:00 - 15:00
OCAP
Using a JavaScript Ocap Security Kernel at Scale
15:30 - 16:15
OCAP
Ocaps & Crypto-commerce
16:15 - 17:00
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