Bruce Jacob: talks & presentations

Bruce Jacob: talks & presentations

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blj@ece.umd.edu

Invited Talks

R&D in Electrical and Computer Engineering. National Student Leadership Conference. Summer 2008.
R&D in ECE: Embedded Systems Issues (research) and Design as Modern Engineering Entrepreneurship (development). Inventis Professional Concepts in Engineering, University of Maryland. February 2008.
Engineering Entrepreneurship: Towards a High-Tech Cottage Industry. Invited lecture for UNIV 100, The Student and the University. Fall 2007.
Memory Systems. National Academies briefing: NRC Workshop on Trends in Computing Performance. September 17, 2007, Mountain View CA.
A Holistic Approach to DRAM ... and Systems. NC State University, ECE Department, March 3, 2006.
Embedded and Non-Classical Systems. Dialogue with the Dean lecture series, University of Maryland College of Engineering. Spring 2006.
A Holistic Approach to DRAM. IBM T.J. Watson, December 2004.
Embedded Systems at Maryland. University of Maryland College of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, and Institute for Systems Research Research Review Day, Spring 2003.
Also presented at National Institute of Standards & Technology, Fall 2003.
How Not to Configure Your DRAM System. Compaq Design Groups in Shrewsbury & Marlboro MA, November 16 & 17, 2000. (this is the long version: short version skips some of the earlier slides -- click here for the short version, which has the same slides but reordered)
Contemporary DRAM Architectures and Beyond. Compaq (nee DEC) Systems Research Center, Palo Alto CA, September 24, 1999.

Project Reviews

System-Level Vulnerability and Mitigation. AFOSR-MURI Final Review, July 2006, Albuquerque NM.
RF and Circuit Integrity in Digital Systems. AFOSR-MURI Annual Review, October 2004, Washington DC.
Evaluating the Vulnerabilities of Digital Systems. AFOSR-MURI Annual Review, November 2003, Chicago IL.
Heterogeneous Integration -- High Performance System Design. University of Maryland Program Review: Laboratory for Physical Sciences. April 2, 2002.

Research Presentations (Conferences & Invited)

A Holistic Approach to DRAM ... and Systems. NC State University, ECE Department, March 3, 2006.
A Holistic Approach to DRAM. IBM T.J. Watson, December 2004.
DRAM: Architectures, Interfaces, and Systems ... A Tutorial. Four-hour tutorial presented at 29th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'02), Anchorage AK, May 26, 2002.
How Not to Configure Your DRAM System. Compaq Design Groups in Shrewsbury & Marlboro MA, November 16 & 17, 2000. (this is the long version: short version skips some of the earlier slides -- click here for the short version, which has the same slides but reordered)
Architectures for Real-Time Caching. Second Workshop on Compiler and Architectural Support for Embedded Systems (CASES'99), Washington DC, October 2, 1999. (click here for longer version -- includes notes)
Contemporary DRAM Architectures and Beyond. Compaq (nee DEC) Systems Research Center, Palo Alto CA, September 24, 1999.
Cache Architectures for Real-Time Embedded Systems. Embedded Systems Conference Summer '99, Danvers MA, June 30, 1999.
A Performance Comparison of Contemporary DRAM Architectures. The 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'99), Atlanta GA, May 3, 1999.
also presented at
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY, April 29, 1999.
Software-Managed Caches: Architectural Support for Real-Time Embedded Systems. First Workshop on Compiler and Architectural Support for Embedded Systems (CASES'98), Washington DC, December 4, 1998.
A Look at Several MMUs, TLB-Refill Mechanisms, and Page Table Organizations. The Eighth Int'l Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-8), San Jose CA, October 7, 1998.
Software-Oriented Memory-Management Design. Ph.D. Thesis Defense, University of Michigan, July 15, 1997.
Software Managed Address Translation. The Third Int'l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-3), San Antonio, TX, February 4, 1997.
Method Invocation in the Face of Anarchy. OOPSLA Workshop on Object Replication and Mobile Computing (ORMC'96), San Jose, CA, October 1996.

Miscellaneous

A Bad Talk, A Good Talk, A Bad Talk, A Good Talk, Some Thoughts (or: How Not To Suck). First presented at U. Maryland ECEGSA seminar series, 30 April 2004.
How To Do Research (Well). First presented at U. Maryland ECEGSA seminar series, 18 April 2003.
Career Paths in Computer Engineering, or So What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? University of Maryland IEEE Student-Professional Awareness Conference (S-PAC). February 16, 2001.
The Top 10 Lessons I Learned as a Grad Student. This is a talk that I have given more than thirty times at the University by this point. It is targeted at both graduate students who have recently entered grad school, as well as undergraduates who are considering grad school.
The IA-64 Architecture. University of Maryland IEEE Chapter, September 16, 1998.
I gave a similar talk at the Microarchitecture Seminar Series, University of Maryland, November 11, 1997.