Message from the program committee chairs

Welcome to COOL Chips XVIII, an international symposium that provides you with the latest developments on low-power and high-speed chips. This year we are bringing you an exciting program that includes six keynote speeches, three invited speeches, three instructive special invited lectures, two special invited presentations and one panel discussion in this noble harbor city of Yokohama. We have two keynote speeches and two invited speeches on 14th April. The first keynote speech will be given by Dr. Tsuyoshi Abe of Intel. He will give us perspective and intention for advancing Moore's Low. The second will be from Dr. Michael Rosenfield of IBM. He will talk about data centric systems from both architecture and solution points of view. Two invited talks are both related to advanced driving assistance systems. The first invited talk will be given by Dr. Motoki Kimura of Renesas Electronics, on image recognition hardware. The second will be given by Mr. Takashi Miyamori of Toshiba, on a heterogeneous multi-core SoC.