The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion have joined forces with leading companies in Israel and abroad to set up the country\u2019s largest center for computer engineering. Technion President Professor Peretz Lavie said that the center will cooperate with industry in Israel and abroad, advance the field of computer engineering in academia and industry in Israel, help bring back to the country researchers and scientists working in this field, draw leading experts from abroad to come and give guest lectures, and attract outstanding students who will continue their graduate studies here.<\/p>\n
The Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Prof. Adam Schwartz, and the Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, Prof. Eli Biham, said that this will be a state-of-the-art research center, facilitating cutting edge research in software, hardware and what lies between them, including cloud computing, computer networks and imaging sciences (image processing and computerized vision).<\/p>\n
The center will be inaugurated at a large scientific conference that 700 scientists and heads of industry from Israel and abroad will be attending. Among the scientists who will be participating and giving lectures are: Prof. Mark Horowitz,\u00a0Dean of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University,\u00a0Yale Patt and Guri Sohi\u00a0\u2013 world recognized scientists at the forefront of the field of computer architecture, Mateo Valero, who transformed Barcelona into a global center for computer architecture, Prof. Mark Snir and Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou, leaders in the field of advanced performance computing, Prof. Guillermo Sapiro, who, thanks to a development by him and his colleagues, enabled the Mars\u2019 pictures to reach earth, and Prof. St\u00e9phane Mallat of the \u00c9cole Polytechnique (designated \u201cthe father of modern signal processing\u201d). Invited speakers from industry are: Dadi Perlmutter,\u00a0Executive Vice President and director of architecture worldwide, Intel, Justin Rattner,\u00a0CTO, Intel, Pat Gelsinger,\u00a0President and COO, EMC,\u00a0and the heads of research in Israel of leading companies such as Microsoft, Amdocs, Sisco, Checkpoint, RAFAEL, Elbit Systems, SAP, HP and Qualcomm.<\/p>\n
The conference will be held on June 1-5 at the Technion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"