Four students Abhineet Sinha (Roll No. 15699), Aishwarya Kharbanda (Roll No. 15700), Chandra Mohan (Roll No. 15705) and Mayank Kaushal (Roll No. 15717) from 5th Semester of Electronics and Computer Engineering Department of Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon attended distinguished lecture program organized by IEEE CASS-CS Delhi Section on 16th October 2014 at IIT Delhi.

Prof. Radu Marculsecu from Carnegie Mellon University and Prof. Partha Pratim Pande from Washington State University shared their views on Entering the Labyrinth of (Inexact) Computer Science: A Cyber-Physical Approach and NoC-based Hardware Accelerators for Bio-computing respectively.

Prof. Radu Marculsecu discussed the theoretical foundations and practical implications of using a communication-centric approach to developing new mathematical models and tools needed to guide the CPS optimization ranging from hardware to dense networks of interacting bacteria and to quorum quenching in pathogen networks. Prof. Partha Pratim Pande explained that the gap between data generation and data processing is rapidly widening in Biocomputing applications and to close this gap it is imperative to assimilate the latest of breakthroughs in the Integrated Circuit (IC) design community into mainstream Bio-computing research.

The session also covered the research area of On-chip wireless communication network and Sustainable Computing. While traditional cluster computers are more constrained by power and cooling costs for solving extreme-scale (or exascale) problems, the continuing progress and integration levels in silicon technologies make possible the construction of complete end-user systems on a single chip. This massive level of integration makes modern multicore chips all pervasive in domains ranging from climate forecasting and astronomical data analysis, to consumer electronics, smart phones, and biological applications. Consequently, designing multicore chips for exascale computing while using the embedded systems design principles looks like a promising alternative to traditional cluster-based solutions.

The lecture was informative and helpful in upcoming projects related to wireless communication, integrated circuit etc.