RSS2: Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0.


https://rss2workshop.github.io/


Friday, April 16, 2021 | Full Day. In conjunction with Asplos 2021. 

Registration through ASPLOS: https://web.cvent.com/event/6259afee-6594-4456-86a0-2a22fbfc47b8/summary


Summary


Unlike Software 1.0 (conventional programs) that is manually coded with hardened parameters and explicit logics, Software 2.0 programs, usually manifested as and enabled by Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have learnt parameters and implicit logics. While the systems and architecture communities have focused, rightly so, on the efficiency of DNNs, Software 2.0 exposes a unique set of challenges for robustness, safety, and resiliency, which are major roadblocks before Software 2.0 becomes a pervasive computing paradigm. Improving the robustness, safety, and resiliency of Software 2.0 is necessarily a cross-layer task, just like how algorithms, programming language, architecture, and circuits communities came together in the Software 1.0 era.


In this workshop, we invite speakers from AlgorithmArchitecture and Device to introduce their thoughts and works on robustness of Software 2.0.


Agenda


Session 1: Algorithms & Applications: What are the new challenges for robustness, safety and resiliency? (12:00 – 13:55, EST)

Speakers: Alfred Chen (UC Irvine)Helen Li (Duke University)Hima Lakkaraju (Havard University)

 

Session 2: Architecture & Systems: How can we build resilient and safe systems and hardware? (13:55 – 15:40, EST)

Speakers: Yanjing Li (University of Chicago)Farinaz Koushanfar (UC San Diego)Anand Raghunathan (Purdue University)


Session 3: Circuits & Devices: How can we harness emerging devices and their characteristics for extreme robustness? (5:40 – 16:05, EST)

Speakers: Kaushik Roy (Purdue University)Suman Datta (University of Notre Dame)Shimeng Yu (Georgia Institute of Technology)


Key Dates


Friday, April 16, 2021


Organizer


Yuhao Zhu, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at University of Rochester.

Priya Panda, Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Yale University.

RSS2: Workshop on Robustness and Safe Software 2.0. Call for participation.