On Friday, August 1, 2003, the IBM Austin Center for
Advanced Studies and our Partnering Executives
proudly welcomed Summer Interns and IBM
Employees to the 3rd Annual Austin CAS Summer
Conference. During this day of IBM Confidential presentations,
16 interns presented the results of their summer
work.
This conference was the culmination of the Annual CAS
Summer Program, an exciting extension to traditional summer
internships - enabling year round continuity for ongoing
research. Most students who work for IBM under this program are
at the graduate-level and are working with professors who are funded
by IBM Partnering Executives during the academic year to conduct joint research with IBM. During the summer
months, most of these students came to IBM to work onsite.
The conference consisted of 6 sessions, including Ensuring High-Quality ICs, Achieving and Evaluating Performance in
IC Packages/Systems, Low Power Computing and Communications, Analysis for Power Optimization, Systems Software
and Analysis Tools, and Advances in Circuit Design. Notable presentations included “Using
Sampled Event Trace Data to Understand Application Behavior in a NUMA” by Diana
Villa, an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship recipient from the University of Texas at El Paso, who is
being mentored by Bret Olszewski at AIX Performance. Another one of the many notable
presentations was “Congestion Aware Routing and Buffering” by Milos Hrkic, an IBM
Ph.D. Fellowship recipient from the University of Illinois, who is being mentored by
Chuck Alpert at the Austin Research Lab. After each presentation, a question/answer
period gave IBM employees and students a chance to discuss the topic and resulting
conclusions.
The Austin CAS 3rd Annual Summer Conference was an exciting cap to a productive
summer. The opportunity to work “at-the-job-site” provided a powerful summer
experience for all involved. As a result of the continuity provided by this program,
many students found themselves better prepared for their summer research. The IBM mentors enjoyed
the exciting, new dimension this program brought to their work. With the Conference and the summer over, the
CAS students are returning to school to continue their research equipped with valuable, industrial-strength experience. As
a testimony to the program’s ongoing success, many CAS students return to IBM summer after summer to participate in
this program. We look forward to seeing them next year!
-By Irene Dhong, 2003 Austin CAS Summer Intern
