Every year, from 2004, the SAMOS conference has included in the program keynotes and beachnotes given by world top-class scientists from both Academia and Industry. A list of the speakers for the past editions of the conference (2004-2024) and a list of the current speakers for SAMOS 2025 can be found in the following.
2025
Keynote – July 2, 2025
Solving the Sustainability Problem, What must come first? …What must come 2nd, and …3rd.
2024
Keynote – July 1, 2024
EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN: BUILDING ON SOLID BASES
Keynote – July 3, 2024
LAZINESS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, IS GOOD! (OH, AND HOW ITS TRAITS CAN MOTIVATE US TO DELIVER EFFICIENT EDGE COMPUTER VISION!)
2023
Keynote – July 3, 2023
CAPITALIZING ON A DECADE OF MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATORS: SW/HW ASSISTS FOR TRAINING AND INFERENCE
Keynote – July 4, 2023
RECONFIGURABLE TECHNOLOGIES IN HPC AND DATA-CENTERS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Keynote – July 5, 2023
SECURITY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN EMERGING DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES
Nele Mentens,
University of Leiden, NL
2022
Keynote – July 4, 2022
FUTURE MICROPROCESSORS: PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE TOP AND STILL PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE BOTTOM
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Keynote – July 5, 2022
EXTREME-SCALE VIRTUAL SCREENING FOR DRUG DISCOVERY TARGETING URGENT COMPUTING
Keynote – July 6, 2022
DESIGN OF SECURE POWER MONITORS FOR HARDWARE ACCELERATORS
William Fornaciari,
Politecnico di Milano, ITA
2021
Keynote – July 6, 2021
SPECTRES, MELTDOWNS, ZOMBIES, ORCS: CAN FORMAL METHODS BANISH THE GHOSTS THAT HAUNT YOUR HARDWARE?
Wolfgang Kunz,
Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern, Germany
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2020
Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the keynotes originally scheduled for Samos 2020 did not take place. The keynotes originally planned for July 2020 have been moved to July 2022.
2019
Keynote – July 8, 2019
FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION: THE CASE FOR HOMOGENEOUS COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES
Soner Onder,
Michigan Technological University, United States
Keynote – July 9, 2019
LIVING WITHOUT HARDWARE (MOSTLY) – VIRTUAL PLATFORMS IN INDUSTRY
Jakob Engblom,
Intel, Sweden
Keynote – July 10, 2019
INTELLIGENT ARCHITECTURES FOR INTELLIGENT MACHINES
Onur Mutlu,
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2018
Keynote – July 16, 2018
UNITY IN DIVERSITY: CO-OPERATIVE EMBEDDED HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING
Tulika Mitra,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Keynote – July 17, 2018
HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS FOR AI
H. Peter Hofstee,
IBM Austin Research Laboratory, United States
Keynote – July 18, 2018
MACHINE GUNS AND BULLETS
Luigi Carro,
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
2016
Keynote – July 18, 2016
POTENTIAL FUTURE RESEARCH IN COMPUTING: HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS, MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS – PROCESS-IN-STORAGE, OR NOT TO PROCESS-IN-STORAGE? THAT IS THE QUESTION
Uri Weiser,
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Keynote – July 19, 2016
IS COMPUTER SCIENCE DYING?
Alex Nicolau,
University of California, Irvine, United States
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2015
Keynote – July 21, 2015
VISUAL PROCESSING SPARKS A NEW CLASS OF PROCESSORS
Marco Jacobs,
VP Marketing at Videantis GmbH, Germany
Keynote – July 20, 2015
RETHINKING MEMORY SYSTEM DESIGN FOR DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING
Onur Mutlu,
Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Keynote – July 22, 2015
PARALLEL PROGRAM = OPERATOR + SCHEDULE + PARALLEL DATA STRUCTURE
Keshav Pingali,
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
2014
Keynote – July 14, 2014
SCALING USABLE COMPUTING CAPABILITY
Tor M. Aamodt,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Keynote – July 15, 2014
HIGH-BANDWIDTH, HIGH-CAPACITY, LOW-POWER MEMORY SYSTEMS
Bruce Jacob,
University of Maryland, United States
Keynote – July 16, 2014
THE HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE: IT’S BEYOND THE GPU
Paul Blinzer,
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., United States
2013
Keynote – July 15, 2013
RETHINKING COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR THROUGHPUT COMPUTING
Wen-mei W. Hwu,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and MulticoreWare Inc., United States
Keynote – July 16, 2013
WHAT CLOUD COMPUTING CAN TEACH US ABOUT EMBEDDED MANY-CORE PROGRAMMING?
András Vajda,
Cloud Management Driver at Ericsson, Finland
2012
Beachnote – July 16, 2012
Political Correctness.
Prof. Yale Patt,
University of Texas – Austin, United States
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Keynote – July 16, 2012
THE HOMOGENEITY OF ARCHITECTURE IN A HETEROGENEOUS WORLD
John Goodacre,
ARM, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Keynote – July 17, 2012
IT’S ABOUT TIME
Edward A. Lee,
University of California, Berkeley, United States
2011
Keynote – July 18, 2011
METHODS FOR DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DYNAMIC SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Shuvra S.Bhattacharyya,
University of Maryland, United States
Beachnote – July 18, 2011
WELFARE: A GOOD THING, OR A BAD THING
Yale Patt,
The University of Texas at Austin, United State
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2010
Keynote – July 19, 2010
TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING POWER
Trevor Mudge,
University of Michigan, United States
Beachnote – July 19, 2010
SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE EMERGING MULTI-CORE ERA OF THE MICROPROCESSORS
Yale Patt,
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
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Keynote – July 20, 2010
VLSI CHALLENGES TO MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT DEVICES
Tawfik Arabi,
Intel Corporation, United States
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2009
Keynote – July 20, 2009
MOBILE VISUAL COMPUTING
Kari Pulli,
Nokia Research Center, United States
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Beachnote – July 20, 2009
WHAT ELSE IS BROKEN? CAN WE FIX IT?
Yale Patt,
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Keynote – July 21, 2009
“SLOWER THAN YOU THINK” ‐ THE EVOLUTION OF PROCESSOR AND SOC ARCHITECTURES
Grant Martin,
Tensilica, United States
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2008
Keynote – July 21, 2008
PICOSERVER – BUILDING A COMPACT ENERGY EFFICIENT MULTIPROCESSOR
Trevor Mudge,
University of Michigan, United States
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Beachnote – July 21, 2008
CAN THEY BE FIXED: SOME THOUGHTS AFTER 40 YEARS IN THE BUSINESS
Yale Patt,
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Keynote – July 22, 2008
CHALLENGES IN EMBEDDED SYSTEM SIMULATION
Tor Jeremiassen,
Texas Instruments, United States
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2007
Keynote – July 21, 2007
SOFTWARE IS THE ANSWER BUT WHAT IS THE QUESTION?
Willie Anderson,
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, United States
Keynote – July 22, 2007
INTEGRATING VLIW PROCESSORS WITH A NETWORK ON CHIP
Jos Huiskenn,
Silicon Hive, Netherlands
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2006
2005
Keynote – July 18, 2005
PLATFORM THINKING IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
Bob Iannucci,
Nokia Research Center, Finland
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2004
Keynote – July 18, 2004
PROGRAMMING EXTREMELY FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS
Kees Vissers,
Xilinx Research and University of California Berkeley, United States
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