Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• Set up of a joint lab on Accelerators for Emerging Applications between Inria (BYMOORE) and the Institute for Computing Technology (Beijing, China). Official signature ceremony took place in Dec. 2012.

• Our paper entitled BenchNN: On the Broad Potential Application Scope of Hardware Neural Network Accelerators was short-listed for best paper award at IISWC 2012.

• I have been elected to become Steering Committee Chair of the International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization starting 2013 for a 3-year tenure.