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SSCS-Germany Cosponsors SAMOS 2007Conference Founder Stamatis
Vassiliadis Memorialized
Holger Blume, Program Chairman IC-SAMOS 2007, Chairman IEEESSCS
Germany Chapter, [email protected]
Prof. Stamatis Vassiliadis (IEEEFellow, ACM Fellow, Member ofthe
Dutch Academy of Sciences,and Professor at Delft University
ofTechnology), who passed away on 7April, 2007 was memorialized at
the2007 SAMOS VII conference. Thisyears Embedded Computer
Systems:Architectures, Modeling and Simula-tion symposium took
place on the
Greek island of Samos, from 16-19 July. Born in Manolates,
Samos, Stamatis founded the
SAMOS conference and workshop series in 2000and was the head and
the heart of these events untilhis death. The series will not be
the same withouthim. In a short presentation about Stamatiss
life,SAMOS board member John Glossner recognizedhim as an
outstanding computer scientist and agood friend to all of us due to
his vivid and heartymanner.
In order to create a permanent commemorationof this inspiring
scientist and to preserve his specialspirit, the SAMOS organizing
committee establishedthe "Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper Awards."
The IC-SAMOS Award and the SAMOS Workshop Awardwere given for the
first time to:
This years program focused on SAMOS tradi-tional areas of
interest: embedded systems andembedded architectures. Session
topics includedprocessor architectures, design space
exploration,multiprocessor architectures, VLSI architectures,
sys-tems and applications and reconfigurable architec-tures.
Special sessions were devoted to SoC archi-tectures for software
defined radio and embeddedsensor systems and sensor networks.
Highlights were invited talks by Willie Anderson(VP Engineering
for Qualcomm CDMATechnologies)on "Software Is The Answer but What
Is The Ques-
tion?" and by John Glossner (CTO and EVP forSandbridge
Technologies) on "The SandblasterSB3011 Processor." Both
presentations inspired live-ly discussions among conference
participants.
The two co-located SAMOS events -- the Interna-tional SAMOS
Conference (IC-SAMOS), sponsored andco-organized by the Germany
Chapter of the IEEESolid-State Circuits Society and the IEEE
Circuits andSystems Society, and the SAMOS workshop -- attract-ed
an increasing number of paper submissions com-pared to 2006 (207
from 30 countries, a 40% increase).Due to their high quality, the
selection process wasvery competitive, entailing four reviews per
paper.The overall acceptance rate was less than 30 % for
theconference and less than 40 % for the workshop. Tra-ditionally,
the symposium features presentations in themorning, while in-depth,
formal discussions onresearch results and future directions take
place in aninformal setting after lunch. The best papers of
theconference are published in special issues of the Jour-nal of
VLSI Signal processing and the Journal of Sys-tems Architecture.
Proceedings of the SAMOS work-shop have been published in the
Springer LNCS series.
SAMOS VIII will take place in 2008 from July 21 - 24.For more
information visit: samos.et.tudelft.nl/samos_viii/
See you in Samos next year!
Prof. StamatisVassiliadis
SAMOS '2007 symposium board and program chairs (fromleft): John
Glossner (Sandbridge Technologies, USA), JarmoTakala (Tampere
University of Technology, Finland), MladenBerekovic (IMEC,
Belgium), Holger Blume (RWTH AachenUniversity, Germany), Andy
Pimentel (Univ. of Amsterdam,The Netherlands), and Georgij
Gaydadijev (TU Delft, TheNetherlands); missing from this
photograph: Shuvra Bhat-tacharyya (Univ. of Maryland, USA).
