Keynotes

Monday, April 02, 2012

Chris Lattner

“Increasing Industry Impact of Compiler Research”

Chris is lead and architect of the open source LLVM Project  (http://llvm.org) a widely used set of compiler infrastructure, as well as Director of Low Level Tools at a prominent technology company.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

David Blythe

“Hardware Software Co-design for Visual Computing”

David Blythe is the Chief Graphics Software Architect for the Visual  Computing Group and is responsible for defining graphics & media software  architecture across Intel products. David joined Intel in 2010.  Prior to  joining Intel, he was a software architect at Microsoft where he oversaw  the later evolution of the DirectX API and the display driver model.  Previous to that, David was heavily involved in the progression of the  OpenGL API and graphics hardware acceleration through 10 years of products  at Silicon Graphics. David holds a Master of Science and Bachelor of  Science degrees from the University of Toronto.