Making vision go fast and low power

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There have been some amazing advanced in chip technologies in recent years from the Tegra (nvidia) to the SnapDragon (Qualcomm). We have some new technologies that are going to knock your socks off.

Rough agenda:

6 - 6:30: Networking and Pizza

6:30 - 7:20: Three Speakers

(1) Andreas Olofsson, Adapteva (http://www.adapteva.com/): A massively parallel, low power chip for vision.

(2) Joe Bates, Singular computing: Low power vision through approximate computing.

(3) Gaurav Chaurasia: Halide (http://halide-lang.org/). Automatic expert optimization of algorithms.

7:20 - 7:30: 1 min pitches from audience. Need help? Looking for a job? Let us know.

7:30 on: More networking.