by SIGARCH Information Director on Apr 8, 2021 |

Call for Participation:

RSS2: Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0.

April 16, 2021 in Virtual
URL: https://rss2workshop.github.io/

RSS2: Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0.
https://rss2workshop.github.io/

Friday, April 16, 2021 | Full Day. In conjunction with Asplos 2021. 
Summary
 
Unlike Software 1.0 (conventional programs) that is manually coded with hardened parameters and explicit logics, Software 2.0 programs, usually manifested as and enabled by Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have learnt parameters and implicit logics. While the systems and architecture communities have focused, rightly so, on the efficiency of DNNs, Software 2.0 exposes a unique set of challenges for robustness, safety, and resiliency, which are major roadblocks before Software 2.0 becomes a pervasive computing paradigm. Improving the robustness, safety, and resiliency of Software 2.0 is necessarily a cross-layer task, just like how algorithms, programming language, architecture, and circuits communities came together in the Software 1.0 era.
 
In this workshop, we invite speakers from Algorithm, Architecture and Device to introduce their thoughts and works on robustness of Software 2.0.
 
Agenda
 
Session 1: Algorithms & Applications: What are the new challenges for robustness, safety and resiliency? (12:00 – 13:55, EST)
 
Session 2: Architecture & Systems: How can we build resilient and safe systems and hardware? (13:55 – 15:40, EST)
 
Session 3: Circuits & Devices: How can we harness emerging devices and their characteristics for extreme robustness? (5:40 – 16:05, EST)
 
Key Dates
 
Friday, April 16, 2021
Organizer
 
Yuhao Zhu, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Rochester.
Priya Panda, Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University.