Date: Friday, September 27, 2013
Location: Maxwell-Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Speaker: Sadasivan (Sadas) Shankar, IACS's Distinguished Scientist in Residence &
Senior Principal Engineer and Program Leader for Materials Design, Design and Technology
Group, Intel Corp
Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm. Talk, 1:00pm
Title: Prediction, Renaissance, and Cognition - 3 Questions for Computing
Abstract:
With the increasing power of computing, humans appear to be on the verge of a golden era
in use of computing to address problems in all areas including energy, health, and
information. Extrapolating the ever-increasing efficacy of hardware and software, it
appears that we are moving towards to be totally predictive and even exceed the computing
power of the brain. Based on our work on several aspects of modeling covering areas of
chemistry and materials science, we will address the feasibility of such a vision and look
back to history and renaissance to distill the lessons for the future of computing. In
this journey, we hope to take you back to the future in which prediction has been one of
the most sought after goals for humans.
Speaker bio:
Sadasivan (Sadas) Shankar is a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel and initiated and led
the Materials Design Program in Intel since 2006, one of the first of these efforts in the
industry. Over his tenure at Intel, he has worked on multiple aspects of technology
development in Intel covering from designing materials atomically to using thermodynamic
principles for understanding energy efficiency of computing, to bridge research to
manufacturing. Several of his team’s efforts aided in technology adoption of over 8
generations of size scaling, and have been recognized by multiple divisional and corporate
awards. Recently, his team’s work was also featured in journal Science and in TED. He is
the co-inventor in over 23 patent filings and co-author of over 100 external publications
and presentations including 2 book chapters. Sadasivan earned his Ph.D in Chemical
Engineering and Materials Science from University of Minnesota-Minneapolis. Sadasivan is
involved in several collaborative initiatives with Semiconductor Research Corporation,
NIST, Department of Energy, and President’s Materials Genome Initiative. He also works
with several universities and research labs for development of new methods in material
science and chemistry. Currently, Sadasivan is the Distinguished Scientist in Residence at
the Institute of Applied Computational Sciences in Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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