COSCO の履歴(No.17)

COLOR(){COSCO is a forum that consists of bimonthly speaker(s) on current research and design in emerging computer systems and IT areas. The topics cover all aspects of computer science and engineering including embedded systems, software engineering, logic design, IT and its implications on Aizu area. COSCO provides a unique public forum gathering students and faculties at the UoA for discussion of new ideas or findings. This forum is open and free of charge; there is no registration/attendance fee.}

COSCO 2017 Schedule†

Chair: D1 The H. Vu
Time: Thursday, 6th period (18:10~)
Place: F-201
Participants: Open to all ASL members, students from UoA, and external guests

Date	Speaker	Supporters	Topic	Slides	Source*
6/29	R. Murakami	Arakawa, Fukuchi, Shimmyo, Yomogita	Demo1: Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) Software Implementation using Python	C7D1_slides.pdf	C7D1_source.zip
8/31	D1		Demo2: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Hardware Implementation on FPGA	C7D2_slides.pdf	C7D2_source.zip
11/30	M1,M1	B4,B3	Demo3: FPGA Hardware Acceleration of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)	C7D3_slides.pdf	C7D3_source.zip
1/25	M1	B4,B3	TDB	C7D4_slides.pdf	C7D4_source.zip
3/29	D1	B4,B3	TDB	C7D5_slides.pdf	C7D5_source.zip

(*source: compress the whole demo design directory, including source code, etc., in a single .zip file)

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COSCO 2016 Schedule†

Chair: D3 Nam Khanh Dang
Time: Friday 5th period 16:30~
Place: F-201
Participants: Open to all ASL members, students from UoA, and external guests

Date	Speaker	Supporters	Topic	Slides	Video
6/24	D2 Dang	Ryunosuke Murakami,Hiroki Yomogita	Basics of Neuro-inspired Computing	slide
8/5	M2 Hayamizu	Nao Miyamoto,Yosuke Ishii	Neural Network Algorithms	slide
11/11	M2 Sato	Shunsuke Mie,Kaori Yatsu	Computing Platforms and Device technologies for Neuro-inspired Computing	slide
1/18	D1 Vu	Hirai	Demo of a Simple Neural Network on DE2 FPGA board SrCode	slide
3/3	D1 Vu	D3 Dang	Demo II of DE2 FPGA: Character Recognition using Backpropagation NN	slide

References

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COSCO 2015 Schedule†

Chair(s): M2 Shunsuke Ishikuro
Schedule: Friday
Time: 5th period (16:30-18:00)
Place: F-201

Date	Speaker	Supporters	Topic	Slides	Video
5/29	Achraf, Nakamura	Tanaka	Heterogeneous Computing Architecture	Presentation
7/24	Mike, Ishikuro	Sasamoto and R. Murakami	Heterogeneous Computing Programming	Presentation
10/16	Dang, Ito	Ishii, Toyama and Y. Murakami	Low-level Vision Processing Algorithms	Presentation
1/29	Nakamura, Hayamizu	Yomogita and Inoue	SIFT Object Recognition Algorithm	Presentation.pdf
2/26	Dang, Sato	Moriai, Yatsu and Miyamoto	Low-level Vision Processing Architectures	Presentation

May 2, 2016.

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COSCO 2014 Schedule†

Chair(s): M2 Takaaki Ouchi
Schedule: Thursday
Time: fourth period (14.50~16.20)
Place: F-201

Date	Speaker	supporters	Topic	Slides	Video
28.5.2014	Hasegawa, Idonuma	Hayamizu, Ishii	Heterogeneous SoCs	Presentation
23.7.2014	Akram, Kobayashi	Hongo, Sato	Multicore Programming I (OpenMP)	Presentation
30.10.2014	Michael, Ouchi		Graphics Processing Unit (GPU): Architecture and Applications	Presentation
19.12.2014	Ishikuro, Nakamura	Hirai,Moriai,Saito,Sasamoto	GPUProgramming	Presentation
24.2.2015	Achraf, Ito	Yuki,Maiko	MPI Programming

References:

MPI programming Tutorial

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COSCO 2013 Schedule†

Chair: Achraf, Co-chair: Michael
Schedule: The second Friday of the month
Time: Third period (13.10~14.40)
Place: F-201

Date	Speaker	Topic	Slides	Video
10.05.2013	Michael Meyer	The Technology of War	Presentation	.
~~14.06.2013~~ -->21.06.2013	Toshiichi Idonuma	Image Matching Application	Presentation	.
~~12.07.2013~~ -->19.07.2013	Toshihiro Sato	Current Technology of Brain Computer Interface	Presentation	.
~~11.10.2013~~-->18.10.2013	Takaaki Ouchi	Opencl on FPGA	Presentation	.
8.11.2013	Toru Hasegawa	JavaScript for Web Applications: node.js	Presentation	.
13.12.2013	Kazuki Kobayashi	Hardware Acceleration of Floating-point Designs on High-end FPGA boards	Presentation	.

May 10, 2013.

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COSCO-2012 Schedule†

Chair: Akram, Co-chair: Ochi
Schedule: The second Friday of the month
Time: Third period (13.10~14.40)
Place: F-201

Date	Presenter	Topic	Presentation Slides
November 9, 2012	Akram	Holography & Holographic TV	Presentation
December 14, 2012	Ochi	Home Automation	Presentation
January 11, 2013	Achraf	Data center	Presentation
February 22, 2013	Kaji	Programming Language, QuakeC for 3D game programming	Presentation

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COSCO-2011 Schedule†

Date	Presenter	Topic(Key Terms)	Presentation Slides	Reference
June 10	Miura	Multicore and Multiprocessor		The Future of Microprocessor
June 24	Miura	Tablet device market	Presentation
July 15	Achraf	3D Transistor	Presentation
July 29	Namae	IPv6	Presentation
Aug 12	Kimezawa	Smart Grid	Presentation
Aug 26	Mori	Supercomputer-focus on POWER775-	Presentation
Oct 26	Akram	Quantum computer	Presentation
Nov 9	Okada	Cloud Computing	Presentation
Nov 30	Kasahara	Neurosynaptic computing chip	Presentation

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Presentation Guidlines†

Select your preferable topic
You can select your topic from not only field of our research, but also other areas about IT or computer science (e.g Cloud computing, GPGPU ... ).
You can search the article from website or IEEE/ACM/IEICE/IPSJ journals or magazines
- Recommended website: The Register, TechNewsWorld, IEEE Spectrum
- If you can find a good topic, you can ask help from Professor Ben or refer to the list Emerging topics bellow.
Read and understand the paper/article/patent/etc.
Prepare .ppt slides and make presentation
Before presentation, you need to print out the article/paper to all members and distribute before you start presentation.
Discuss with Lab. members and exchange ideas

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Emerging Topics†

Neuro-inspired Chips
Big Data
Manycore
Cloud Computing
Virtualization
Philosophy and Science
Internet-on-Thing (IoT)
GPGPU(News from The Register)
CUDA/NVIDIA(News from The Register)
3D IC(News 1, 2, 3)
ARM(News from The Register, 1)
AIIT
Space, Medical, Disaster (Nuclear Radiations, Earthquake, etc..) managements.