Oct. 5, 2021
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October 5, 2021 Newsletter

October 5, 2021 Newsletter

October 5

Take a look at our October 5, 2021 Newsletter with updates from the Ken Kennedy Institute.

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In This Issue
  • Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference and Wednesday Workshop
  • Vivek Sarkar Lecture
  • Community Highlights

View the Full Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference Program
The Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference has an outstanding lineup of speakers and presentations. Check out all of the details online!

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Ken Kennedy AI and Data Science Conference



The agenda for the virtual conference, October 25-26, includes invited keynote speakers, technical program, sponsors, student poster presentations, and an outdoor networking reception.

This year we have an exciting line up of invited speakers from NASA, IBM, AWS, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Rice University.

Conference registration is free, thanks to our sponsors! Click HERE to register for the conference.

Scalable and Sustainable AI Workshop: Overcoming the Wide Gap Between AI in Theory and AI in Production


Wednesday, October 27 will be an in-person add-on day with a technical workshop highlighting deep learning and high-performance computing with Alex Smola, VP of AWS, and Anshumali Shrivastava with Rice University.

Workshop registration comes with a small fee. Click HERE to register for our Wednesday Workshop.
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Submit a Poster!

The Ken Kennedy Institute welcomes posters that are related to data-driven knowledge discovery, foundations of data science, and applications and use-cases.

Visit ai-datascience.rice.edu to submit your poster proposal.
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Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture

McMurty Auditorium | November 3, 2021 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture Series brings leaders in the field of computing and data science from both academia and industry to Rice to speak about the impact of their work.

Speaker: Vivek Sarkar is the chair of the School of Computer Science and the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, since August 2017. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Sarkar was a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering. During 2007 - 2017, Sarkar led Rice’s Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research Laboratory which focused on unifying parallelism and concurrency elements of high-end computing, multicore, and embedded software stacks (http://habanero.rice.edu). He also served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Rice during 2013 - 2016.

Prior to joining Rice in 2007, Sarkar was Senior Manager of Programming Technologies at IBM Research. His research projects at IBM included the X10 programming language, the Jikes Research Virtual Machine for the Java language, the ASTI optimizer used in IBM’s XL Fortran product compilers, and the PTRAN automatic parallelization system. Sarkar became a member of the IBM Academy of Technology in 1995, and was inducted as an ACM Fellow in 2008. He has been serving as a member of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) since 2009, and on CRA’s Board of Directors since 2015.

Free. Registration required.
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Civic Scientist Lecture: Innovation and the Workforce of the Future

The Science and Technology Policy program at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy would like to invite you to a virtual discussion with Antonio Neri, President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, on innovation, decentralization of science and technology hubs, and the diversification of the workforce in the future.

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