ICCS is well known for its line-up of keynote speakers.
This page will be frequently updated with new names, lecture titles and abstracts.
David Abramson
Director, Research Computing Centre, Professor of Computer Science, FACM, FIEEE, FTSE, FACS, The University of Queensland
Australia
Manuel Castro Díaz
University of Málaga
Spain
Jiří Mikyška
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Nuclear Science and Physical Engineering, Department of Mathematics – Mathematical Modelling Group
Czechia
Takemasa Miyoshi
Team Leader, Data Assimilation Research Team RIKEN Center for Computational Science
Japan
Coral Calero Muñoz
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
Software: to green or not to green, that’s the question
Petra Ritter
BIH Johanna Quandt Professor for Brain Simulation, Director, Brain Simulation Section, Berlin Institute of Health & Dept. of Neurology, Charité University Hospital Berlin
Germany
The University of Queensland, Australia
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David is a Professor of Computer Science, and currently heads the University of Queensland Research Computing Centre.
He has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979.
He has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, RMIT and Monash University.
Prior to joining UQ, he was the Director of the Monash e-Education Centre, Science Director of the Monash e-Research Centre, and a Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash.
From 2007 to 2011 he was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow.
David has expertise in High Performance Computing, distributed and parallel computing, computer architecture and software engineering.
He has produced in excess of 230 research publications, and some of his work has also been integrated in commercial products. One of these, Nimrod, has been used widely in research and academia globally, and is also available as a commercial product, called EnFuzion, from Axceleon.
His world-leading work in parallel debugging is sold and marketed by Cray Inc, one of the world’s leading supercomputing vendors, as a product called ccdb.
David is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), and the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
His hobbies include recreational cycling, photography and making stained glass windows. He is also an amateur playwright, and author of Purely Academic.
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University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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Coral Calero is Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain and has a PhD in Computer Science. She is a member of the Alarcos Research Group, being responsible of the “Green and Sustainable software” line research, where two main lines of work are developed. The first one addresses issues such as measuring the impact that software and information systems have on the environment and how to improve its energy efficiency, as well as human and economic aspects related to software sustainability. The second major line of work supports all the group’s dissemination activities to raise awareness of the impact that software has on the environment.
That software moves the world is a clear fact. And that it is becoming more and more important, too. There are three aspects that have led to an increase in the intensity with which software is used: the Internet and social networks, data and artificial intelligence.
However, not everything is positive in the support that software provides to our daily lives. There are estimates that ICT will be responsible for 20% of global energy consumption by 2030, part of which will be due to software. And precisely the three mentioned aspects require large amounts of energy.
In this keynote we will review different concepts related to software sustainability, and we will show some results of software consumption measurements that we have carried out on the one hand, cases carried out to raise awareness in society in general about the impact that software has on the environment. On the other hand, examples related to the consumption of data and artificial intelligence carried out with the aim of creating a set of best practices for the software professionals.
Our ultimate goal is to make you aware of the consumption problem associated with software and to ensure that, if at first, we were concerned with the “what” and later with the “how”, now it is time to focus on the “with what”.