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CALL FOR BenchCouncil Achievement Award Nomination

========================================================== The 2019 BenchCouncil Achievement Award

Recognize a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing.Awards: 3,000 US dollar. The winner is eligible for BenchCouncil Fellow.

Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth

http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ==========================================================

Introduction ---------------- The BenchCouncil achievement award recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to the benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing community. Any member of this community is welcome to nominate an individual who is eligible for this award. Self-nomination is also encouraged. The recommender should write a short summary highlighting the nominee’s contribution.

This year, the achievement award will be awarded on BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19, Nov 14-16, 2019 @ Denver, Colorado, USA). The award winner needs to give a 45-minute keynote speech on Bench 19.

International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) is a non-profit research institute, which aims to promote the standardization, benchmarking, evaluation, incubation, and promotion of open-source chip, AI, and Big Data techniques. http://www.benchcouncil.org

Nomination Submission ------------------------ Deadline: Oct. 31, 2019, anywhere on earth

Nominees need to send an email to the following address for confirmation: zhanjianfeng@ict.ac.cn

Bench 19 conference --------------------- The Bench 19 conference will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA.The conference provides a high-quality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. The main theme is benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing Big Data or AI in HPC, Datacenter, IoT, and Edge Computing. Bench 19 has three special events: BenchCouncil achievement award, which recognizes a senior researcher, who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing ($3000), the AI benchmarking reports, and AI system and algorithm challenges. Also, we will invite speakers from China, US, Europe and Japan on HPC AI topics.

Website: http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html Registration: https://eur.cvent.me/0QG1

Bench 19 Hotel Reservation ----------------- The Conference hotel is Courtyard by Marriott Denver Airport. We have negotiated a competitive group rate and we strongly encourage attendees to stay there, when possible. Notice that the banquet will also take place at the hotel.

The reservation link: https://www.marriott.com/events/start.mi?id=1568131806319&key=GRP

Start Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 End Date: Saturday, November 16, 2019 Last Day to Book: Friday, October 25, 2019 Room rate: $179/night + abound 15.75% taxes (Standard Room)