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## WAX 2016 Preliminary Program

### Sunday, April 3, 2016

### Overview

**9:00--9:15am**: Opening and introductions  
**9:15--10:00am**: Keynote 1  
**10:00am--10:15am**: Lightning talks 1  
**10:15--10:30am**: Break  
**10:30--11:15am**: Session 1  
**11:15--noon**: Session 2  
**noon--1:30pm**: Lunch and discussion  
**1:30--1:45pm**: Lunch discussion report-outs  
**1:45--2pm**: Lightning talks 2  
**2--2:45pm**: Keynote 2  
**2:45--3pm**: Break  
**3--3:45pm**: Session 3  
**3:45--4:30pm**: Session 4  
**4:30--5:00pm and thereafter**: Debate

### Session 1: Architecture

* [*Synthesis of Quality Configurable Systems*](lee.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (The University of Texas at Austin)

* [*Approximate Flash Storage: A Feasibility Study*](rahmati.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan)

* [*Approximate Computing and Microfluidic Cooling for Enhanced Machine Learning*](sharma.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (Georgia Institute of Technology)

### Session 2: Connections

* [*WoCMan: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds for High-Quality Estimates*](barowy.pdf)  
  <NAME> and <NAME> (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and <NAME> and <NAME> (Microsoft Research)

* [*Approximate and Noisy Computing: Connections to the Information-Theory World*](sala.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (UCLA)

* [*The Case for Compulsory Approximation*](sampson.pdf)   
  <NAME> (Cornell & Microsoft Research)

### Session 3: Mechanisms

* [*Overcoming the Data-flow Limit on Parallelism with Structural Approximation*](balaji.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (CMU)

* [*CPSA: Compute Precisely Store Approximately*](jain.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), <NAME> (Uppsala University), and <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

* [*DOT APPROX: Making a Case for Dynamic Online Training for Function Approximation Techniques*](aurangzeb.pdf)   
  Aurangzeb and <NAME> (Purdue University)

### Session 4: Accuracy

* [*Statistical Error Bounds for Data Parallel Applications*](hill.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan)

* [*Approximating to the Very Last Bit*](moreau.pdf)   
  <NAME> (University of Washington) and <NAME> (Cornell & Microsoft Research) and <NAME> and <NAME> (University of Washington)

* [*Towards more Precision in Approximate Computing*](venkatagiri.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)<commit_msg>More complete program<commit_after>+++
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## WAX 2016 Preliminary Program

### Sunday, April 3, 2016

**9:00--9:15am**: Opening and introductions

Be ready to say who you are, where you're affiliated with, and why you're at the workshop.

**9:15--10:00am**: Keynote by [<NAME>][matthai], Microsoft Research

*Continuous Mobile Vision: Why and How to Perform Computer Vision on Video from a Wearable Device*

[matthai]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/matthaip/

**10:00am--10:15am**: Lightning talks 1

**10:15--10:30am**: Break

**10:30--11:15am**: Session 1, *Architecture*

Talks are 10 minutes each.
There will be a 3-minute (short!) moment for questions immediately afterward; in the rest of the time, all the speakers will be available to answer more questions from attendees.

* [*Synthesis of Quality Configurable Systems*](../papers/lee.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (The University of Texas at Austin)
* [*Approximate Flash Storage: A Feasibility Study*](../papers/rahmati.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan)
* [*Approximate Computing and Microfluidic Cooling for Enhanced Machine Learning*](../papers/sharma.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (Georgia Institute of Technology)

**11:15--noon**: Session 2, *Connections*

* [*WoCMan: Harnessing the Wisdom of the Crowds for High-Quality Estimates*](../papers/barowy.pdf)  
  <NAME> and <NAME> (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and <NAME> and <NAME> (Microsoft Research)
* [*Approximate and Noisy Computing: Connections to the Information-Theory World*](../papers/sala.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (UCLA)
* [*The Case for Compulsory Approximation*](../papers/sampson.pdf)   
  <NAME> (Cornell & Microsoft Research)

**noon--1:30pm**: Lunch with discussion groups

We'll select topics for discussion over lunch, assign groups to topics, and choose a scribe for each group. The scribe will be responsible for reporting out from the discussion after lunch.

**1:30--1:45pm**: Discussion report-outs

Each group's scribe has a few minutes to lead discussion on the results from the lunch topic.

**1:45--2pm**: Lightning talks 2

**2--2:45pm**: Keynote by [<NAME>][naveen], Princeton

*A Look at the Hardware: What Can Approximation Buy Us, and How Can We Cash In?*

[naveen]: http://ee.princeton.edu/people/faculty/naveen-verma

**2:45--3pm**: Break

**3--3:45pm**: Session 3, *Mechanisms*

* [*Overcoming the Data-flow Limit on Parallelism with Structural Approximation*](../papers/balaji.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (CMU)
* [*CPSA: Compute Precisely Store Approximately*](../papers/jain.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), <NAME> (Uppsala University), and <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
* [*DOT APPROX: Making a Case for Dynamic Online Training for Function Approximation Techniques*](../papers/aurangzeb.pdf)   
  Aurangzeb and <NAME> (Purdue University)

**3:45--4:30pm**: Session 4, *Accuracy*

* [*Statistical Error Bounds for Data Parallel Applications*](../papers/hill.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Michigan)
* [*Approximating to the Very Last Bit*](../papers/moreau.pdf)   
  <NAME> (University of Washington) and <NAME> (Cornell & Microsoft Research) and <NAME> and <NAME> (University of Washington)
* [*Towards more Precision in Approximate Computing*](../papers/venkatagiri.pdf)  
  <NAME>, <NAME>, and <NAME> (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

**4:30--5:00pm and thereafter**: Debate
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