Giovanni De Micheli takes the helm at EPFL's EcoCloud Center
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Professor Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI) in EPFL's School of Engineering and School of Computer and Communication Sciences, has taken over the scientific leadership of EcoCloud from Professor David Atienza, head of STI's Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL).
EPFL’s EcoCloud Center drives innovation in eco-friendly smart data through resilient, efficient, secure and trustworthy data platforms and technologies, with the aim to address the major national and global IT challenges that affect us all.
Previously the founder and director of the EPFL Integrated Systems Center, De Micheli has been breaking the boundaries of Computer Science and Electronic design for more than forty years and this week becomes the Scientific Director of EcoCloud.
Almost as if to mark the occasion of Atienza’s handover to De Micheli, and as a demonstration of how far back their collaboration goes, recently they received a joint Test-of-Time award for a paper published in 2007.
Presented by the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, the prize recognizes papers published at least 15 years ago that have had a lasting influence on modern system design.
The 2007 paper, Temperature-aware Processor Frequency Assignment for MPSoCs Using Convex Optimization, featured an early adoption of temperature-aware frequency control in Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chips, exploring optimization methods to solve processor frequency assignments, in a bid to reduce energy consumption and make temperature gains in small devices.