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The Present and Future of Sustainability R&D
Kirk W. Cameron is an associate professor of Computer Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Cameron received the B.S. in Math from UF in 1994 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from LSU in 2000. He directs the SCAPE Laboratory at Virginia Tech where he pioneered the area of high-performance, power-aware computing to improve the efficiency of high-end systems. Cameron has received numerous awards and accolades for his research and publications including the NSF Career Award (2004), the DOE Career Award (2004), USC COE Young Investigator Research Award (2005), Best Paper Nominee SC06, VT COE Fellow (2007), IBM Faculty Award (2007), Uptime Institute Fellow (2008), and was invited to the 2008 National Academy of Engineering Symposium. Prof. Cameron is on the editorial board and editor for the IEEE Computer "Green IT" column. In 2007, Prof. Cameron founded a startup company called MiserWare to increase the impact of the intellectual property resulting from his funded research.
Doug Fisher is a Program Director in the Robust Intelligence program of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Division of the National Science Foundation. At NSF, Doug oversees much of the NSF portfolio in Artificial Intelligence, to include Machine Learning. He is the cognizant program officer of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center and of an Expeditions of Computing award on Computational Sustainability. He is on leave from Vanderbilt University, where his research and teaching is in AI, machine learning, and data mining. Doug became acutely concerned with climate change, and environmental sustainability generally, as a faculty member in residence, living in Vanderbilt dormitories. He learned that students were deeply concerned with these and other societal issues, had little opportunity to talk about them in classrooms, notably computer science classrooms, and that he was part of the problem in that he was participating in a sharp segregation of technical material from contemporary issues and ethics. Doug credits living among students and ABET accreditation with changing his thinking about teaching and research, as well as changing him from a passive believer in equal opportunity to pursue a computer science profession to an activist for equal participation in it—the lack of diversity in the transformational computing sciences strikes him as a threat to long-term societal and environmental sustainability.
Dushyanth Narayanan is a researcher in the Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft's European research centre in Cambridge, England. His recent research has been on storage, energy, and data center management. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2002), and his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1995).
As part of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory (SIEL) at HP Labs, Amip Shah is engaged with the development of novel tools and methods for improving the sustainability of the world around us. Amip has been with HP Labs in Palo Alto, California since 2007. Previously, he was with the Process and Equipment Development team in the Flash Memory Group at Intel Corporation in Folsom, California, where he was involved with pathfinding for the next generation of non-volatile memory packages. Amip received his BS in Mechanical Engineering, with highest honors, from Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Subsequently, he received MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. His graduate work, advised by Professor Van P. Carey, was focused on the applicability of the second law of thermodynamics for optimization of multiscale electronics cooling infrastructures. In collaboration with HP Labs, Amip led the development of exergy-based models for simultaneous evaluation of thermal manageability and energy efficiency of independent and interdependent cooling solutions at the chip, system, and data center level. Applicability of the technique was also demonstrated for evaluation of energy efficiency in non-silicon based systems, such as biological information processors. Amip has also worked in the area of 3D stacked packaging, particularly for flash memory applications.
author = {Kirk Cameron and Douglas H. Fisher and Dushyanth Narayanan and Amip Shah},
title = {The Present and Future of Sustainability {R\&D}},
booktitle = {First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology (SustainIT 10)},
year = {2010},
address = {San Jose, CA },
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/sustainit-10/present-and-future-sustainability-rd},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = feb
}
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