ERSA-NVIDIA Award - WORLDCOMP
"BEST YOUNG
ENTREPRENEUR"
Submission of
Proposals for ERSA-NVIDIA award Candidates
Deadline: April
22, 2013
Award Ceremony
ERSA/WORLDCOMP
conference in Las Vegas
The Tropicana
Hotel
22 July,
2013
ERSA Conference
ERSA is a part
of WORLDCOMP (World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and
Applied Computing):
(Based on last
offerings of WORLDCOMP Congress, we anticipate having about 2,000
participants.)
INTRODUCTION
The information
age continues to surprise and challenge us all in the fast pace of evolving
technology. Developing complex, commercial applications requires
multidisciplinary research and new visionary approaches.
As opportunities
for new technologies continues to evolve, the need for support of young,
talented entrepreneurs, who are breaking the way into future, is higher than
ever.
To support young
and talented, ERSA conference, sponsored by NVIDIA, launches an Award for
"Best Young Entrepreneur".
The Award is
devoted for entrepreneurs developing tools, advanced technologies and
opportunities for supporting applications, both academic and commercial, across
broad area of high-performance, embedded systems implemented as multicore
systems and reconfigurable heterogeneous parallel processing systems.
THE AWARD
COMMITTEE
The Award
Committee includes world renowned scientists from leading universities:
o Stanford University, USA.
Prof. Michael Flynn
o Imperial College London, UK.
Prof. Wayne Luk
o Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology, Germany. Prof. Joerg Henkel
o Keio University, Japan, Prof.
Hideharu Amano
o Shanghai Jiao Tong University,
China, Prof. Simon See
and from leading
companies:
o NVIDIA, N/A
o Altera, Principal Engineer
Steve Casselman
o National Instruments, N/A
PROPOSALS FOR
CANDIDATES
1. Who can be a
candidate?
a. This award is open to anyone,
to individuals and teams, working in
the area specified in this document.
Candidates should be 35 years
old or under.
b. Anyone can nominate another
person, a team or themselves, as a candidate
(as long as the candidate is aware
of being nominated.)
c. The achievements of candidate
should belong to the area of developing
software tools, advanced technologies and
opportunities for supporting
applications, both academic and commercial,
across broad area, including,
but not limiting to, mobile, low-power,
complex, intelligent,
high-performance, embedded systems
implemented as multicore systems
and reconfigurable heterogeneous parallel
processing systems.
2. Who can
propose candidates?
a. Any individual or group of
individuals can propose another person, a
team or themselves, as a candidate.
For example, a company can propose their
young person, or a team of
young persons. A Group, submitting a
proposal, must not necessarily
be from the same organization.
b. Anyone proposing a candidate
should present his/her short Bio - not
exceeding 300 words. Could include link to
LinkedIn profile as
substitute (highly recommended). Same
applies for groups. In
addition, the relation to the candidate must
be indicated.
3. What should
the Proposals contain?
a. Short Bio of Candidate or
Team - not to exceed 500 words in length
per individual. Could include link to
LinkedIn profile as substitute
(highly recommended). Same applies for
overall organization or company
as a backgrounder.
b. High level overview of work
to be considered - not to exceed 500
words in length.
c. Description of impact of work
(i.e. why does it matter?) and how
was impact measured / determined - not to
exceed 500 words in length.
d. Technical details - not to
exceed 3 pages (single spaced, US Letter
or A4, 10 pt. typeface). Photos and diagrams
are acceptable [format(s):
PDF (preferred), doc, (not docx), jpg]
e. List of supporting
references, including published articles (electronic
or traditional) in peer reviewed journals,
or major global media
publishers including print, video, blogs,
etc.
TIME SCHEDULE
1. April 22:
Submission of Proposals for Candidates.
The list of candidates will be made public
on ERSA web-site; the candidates
will be notified by email.
2. May 7: The
Award Committee provides a List of Nominees (max 8 nominees).
The List of Nominees will be made public on
ERSA web-site. Nominees will
be asked to prepare a 30-minute presentation
at the conference if they win
the Award or 15 minutes otherwise. The
winner can submit up to 10 pages (in
IEEE transaction format) paper for post
conference proceedings, or 7 pages
otherwise. Deadline for post conference
proceedings is July 31, 2013.
The winner gets free registration at this
year and also at next years ERSA
conference, will receive a cash prize, and
will be included into the next
year's Award Committee.
All candidates can participate at ERSA
conference and present their
work/achievements (not just the nominees)
after an evaluation process. We
also accept poster presentation and 4-page
papers in post conference
proceedings; the post-conference proceedings
will go to press in October 2013).
3. June 17:
Final Decision, the winner is selected by The Award Committee.
The winner will not be made public until the
date of the Award Ceremony
(July 22, 2013). The award committee
reserves the right to not award if no
nominee is good enough.
4. 22 July,
2013: Award Ceremony at ERSA conference in Las Vegas, The Tropicana
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