WAX 2018 Program

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Patriot Room

9:00–9:15am: Opening and introductions

9:10–10:00am: Keynote

Phillip Stanley-Marbell, University of Cambridge: “Not Your Typical Objects: Made from Raw Materials Augmented with Sensing and Computation.”

10:00–10:30am: Break

10:30-11:15: Approximate Memory

Talks are 10 minutes each. There will be a short period for clarification questions after each talk and a longer, themed discussion period at the end of the session.

• ARMOR: Towards Restricted Approximation with a Worst-Case Guarantee
  Sihang Liu (University of Virginia); Kevin Angstadt (University of Michigan); Mike Ferdman (Stony Brook University); Samira Khan (University of Virginia)

• Quality-Configurable Approximate Memory Hierarchy: A Formal Control Theory Approach
  Majid Shoushtari (UC Irvine); Amir M. Rahmani (TU Wien); Nikil Dutt (UC Irvine)

11:15am–noon: Applications of Approximation

• KinectFusion on Steroids
  Swarnendu Biswas, Yan Pei, Donald S. Fussell, and Keshav Pingali (University of Texas at Austin)

• Exploring Floating-Point Trade-Offs in ML
  Rocco Salvia and Zvonimir Rakamarić (University of Utah)

noon–1:30pm: Lunch and Discussion

1:30–2:40pm: Architectural Support for Approximation

• The What’s Next Intermittent Architecture
  Karthik Ganesan (University of Toronto); Joshua San Miguel (University of Wisconsin - Madison); Natalie Enright Jerger (University of Toronto)

• AISC: Approximate Instruction Set Computer
  Alexandra Ferrerón, Jesús Alastruey-Benedé, Darío Suárez-Gracia (Universidad de Zaragoza); Ulya R. Karpuzcu (University of Minnesota)

• Accelerating Approximations via Slack Recycling
  Gokul Subramanian Ravi and Mikko Lipasti (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

2:40–3:25pm: Tools and Reasoning About Approximation

• Leveraging Structural Information to Ease Approximation Management
  Liu Liu (Rutgers University); Sibren Issacman (Loyola University); Ulrich Kremer (Rutgers University)

• NEAT: A Tool for Automated Exploration of Approximate FPU Designs
  Lee Ehudin, Saeid Barati, and Henry Hoffmann (University of Chicago)

3:25–4:00pm: Break

4:00–5:30pm: Breakout Report and Open Discussion on Future Directions of Approximation