Program (Click here for Abstracts and Bios)

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10:30 - 10:50
Coffee and tagging

10:50 - 11:00
Opening Remarks
Gideon Arieli, Ministry of Science & Technology,
Shlomi Arnon, Ben Gurion University,
Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion University

11:00 - 11:55
Wavelength addressing, its physical implementation, and its application in distributed computing networks
Aharon Agranat, Hebrew University

11:55 - 12:50
Quantum Computation - where did we start, where are we going
Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University

12:50 - 13:50
Lunch

13:50 - 14:35
Unguided Optical Communication Bus for Next Generation Computers
Shlomi Arnon, Ben Gurion University

14:35 - 15:30
Asymmetric Chip Multi-Core: The future Chip MultiProcessor (CMP)
Uri Weiser, Technion

15:30 - 15:40
Coffee

15:40 - 16:25
Optical Solutions for Bounded NP-Complete Problems
Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion University

16:25 - 17:10
Molecular Syllogisms
Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute

17:10 - 18:05
Learning from Bacteria about Information Processing
Eshel Ben Jacob, Tel Aviv University