Posted: 12 Dec 2014 04:48 PM PST

IEEE CASS Malaysia would like to cordially invite you to the Distinguished Lecture sponsored by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The details are as below:

Title: Low Power Motion Estimation Specific Instruction-set Processors (MESIP):

Novel Design Challenge For Nano Technology Era

Speaker: Prof. Myung H. Sunwoo from Ajou University, South Korea.

Session 1

Date: 17th December 2014 (Wednesday)

Time: 1500 – 1600 pm

Venue: Seminar Hall, Level 2, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Session 2

Date: 18th December 2014 (Thursday)

Time: 1500 – 1600 pm

Venue: Seminar Room (22-02-19), Block 22, Electrical & Electronic Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi Petronas.

Abstract: ASICs have been widely used to implement Motion Estimation (ME) algorithms, however, ASICs should be redesigned whenever changes are made in algorithms. Because of soaring non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs, ASIC solutions are not practical when dealing with rapidly changing ME algorithms. Recently, Application Specific Instruction-set Processors (ASIPs) which can give both relatively high performance low power of ASICs and flexibility of processors have emerged as promising solutions. This talk introduces a Motion Estimation Specific Instruction-set Processor (MESIP) for video applications having two types of pattern registers and a special instruction set, which can efficiently support various ME algorithms. MESIP can significantly reduce the number of cycles, and memory accesses and thus, dramatically save power consumption. MESIP has been implemented with the IBM's 90nm CMOS technology and has 203K gates excluding memory and it can reduce the number of the required instructions by up to 18.9% compared with the existing ME processors. Hence, ASIP can be a promising solution to implement rapidly changing various applications and it can save huge NRE costs in nano technology era.

Biography

Myung H. Sunwoo received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering (EE)from Sogang University in 1980, the M.S. degree in EE from Korea Advanced Institute ofScience and Technology (KAIST) in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical andComputer Engineering (ECE) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Heworked for Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon,Korea from 1982 to 1985, and Digital Signal Processor Operations, Motorola, Austin, TXfrom 1990 to 1992. Since 1992, he has been a Professor with the School of ECE, AjouUniversity in Suwon, Korea. In 2000, he was a Visiting Professor at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, CA. He has authored over 390 papers and also holds 60 patents. Hereceived 34 research awards including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Workshopon Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) 2005, International SoC Conference (ISOCC) in2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, and IEEE Seoul Section in 2004, Samsung Electronics, and the Institute of ElectronicsEngineers of Korea (IEEK). His research interests include low power algorithms and architectures, SOC design formultimedia and communications, and application-specific design. He served as the General Chair of InternationalSymposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2012, Seoul Korea. He served as the Technical Program Chair of the IEEEWorkshop on SiPS in 2003, General Co-Chair of ISOCC, and General Chair of the IEEK SOC Conference in 2008. Hehas been a Technical Committee member for numerous conferences and societies. He was an Associate Editor for theIEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (2002–2003), Guest Editor for the Journal ofVLSI Signal Processing (Kluwer, 2004) and served on Guest Editor for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems(Springer-Verlag, 2012). He was elected as a member of the Board of Governors (BoG) for IEEE CASS, was reelectedfor 2011-2016 and was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CASS in 2009-2010. He was a Director of the NationalResearch Laboratory sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and an Executive Director of IEEK. He is aPresident of the IEEK Semiconductor Society and he was a Chair of the IEEK SOC Design Technical Committee. He wasan honorary ambassador of Korean Tourism Organization. He is a Chair of the IEEE CASS, Seoul Chapter and a Fellowof IEEE.

The lecture is organised by: The IEEE CASS Malaysia Chapter and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia and Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas.

Reading revolutions: serialising a novel – interview at the Malaysia

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 01:23 PM PST

You really know you're in a world wide web when an email arrives from a journalist on a newspaper in Malaysia. Elizabeth Tai contacted me for a series she was writing called reading revolutions. She'd seen that I had originally released my first novel, My Memories of a Future Life, as a four-part serial on Kindle, and wanted to ask me how that worked and why I did it. We talk about pros, cons, cautions – and tips I'd give to anyone considering doing the same. Come on over…

And in the meantime, tell me: where's the furthest-flung place you've had a surprise email from about your work?

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Readers Find Echoes of Malaysia Flight Mystery in ... - Novel M'sia

Posted: 10 Dec 2014 01:51 PM PST

The disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370 has prompted readers to return to James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon, the book which gave us the name "Shangri-la."

By Roger Tagholm

Lost Horizon

"And you say it never reached Peshawur?"

"Never reached there, and never came down anywhere else, as far as we could discover. That was the queer part about it…"

There is something of James Hilton's classic 1933 novel Lost Horizon in the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, something that touches our deepest longings for escape from the daily grind and our notions of a better life in a distant utopia. The words above from the novel's prologue have an eerie echo of statements and news reports of the last few days.

The heartbreaking interviews with partners of the passengers have an element of the mystical that is redolent of the novel — the woman who said she felt her partner's presence; the man who imagined his brother lashing together pieces of wreckage to make a raft. So many contemporary novels are dystopian — The Hunger Games et al; here was one, written in the innocent years before the horror of the Second World War, that was about a utopia.

Customers on Amazon have been reminded too. One posting, headed "If Only This Were the Story of Flight MH370," continued: "James Hilton's Lost Horizon has been haunting me ever since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, so last night I began re-reading it for the first time in decade…"

Originally published by Macmillan in the UK in 1933, south coast independent, Summersdale, discovered it was out of print some years ago and MD Alastair Williams, long a fan of the book, successfully approached Curtis Brown for the rights. Williams republished the book in 2003, reprinting a 70th anniversary edition in 2006. But sadly, the publisher's copyright expired last year and, despite strong sales to the Shangri-La hotel chain, the agency has not as yet agreed a new deal.

It is somewhat frustrating for the publisher, recently named Independent Trade Publisher of the Year at the Independent Publishers Group awards and shortlisted for the Independent Publisher of the Year in the Bookseller Industry Awards. "There are one or two illegal editions out there currently being sold, but we've been selling it legally and paying the estate," said Williams. "We love the book and remain hopeful of getting it back."

The novel was made into an equally classic film in 1937, directed by Frank Capra and starring Ronald Colman. Hilton's story belongs to that rare club of books that have given words to the language. It is Hilton that we have to thank for Shangri-La, defined in the dictionary as "a place regarded as an earthly paradise, especially when involving a retreat from the pressures of modern civilization." It was the name he gave to the small, Tibetan hamlet and its harmonious society, tucked away in the hidden valley to which his airplane survivors are led.

Setting aside the Bible, which is in a category all its own, it is Joseph Heller's Catch-22 that is probably the most famous example of a novel giving a word or phrase to the language. A "catch-22″ is defined as a "dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions." It is familiar to publishers. They need sales through Amazon – it's the channel that always seems to grow — but they also need the discoverability and launch platforms offered by physical bookshops, the same bookshops that are closing in part because of all those sales through Amazon. It is the industry's very own catch-22.

Often it is a character's name that enters the language — J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan ("he never seems to get any older, he's a real Peter Pan figure"), Thurber's Walter Mitty ("he's such a dreamer, such a Walter Mitty"), or, further back, George du Maurier's Svengali from his 1894 novel, Trilby. Dictionaries now define Svengali as "somebody who controls and manipulates somebody else, usually for evil purposes." Which reminds us of Machiavellian and that other category — of authors whose own names have entered the language: Orwellian, Dickensian etc.

A much more recent name is on the cusp of making it into the language. In the UK, there have been proposals to abolish the 25% reduction single people receive in their council tax. But the plans have been attacked in some quarters as the equivalent of a "Bridget Jones tax," one that would unfairly hit those who live alone. So Helen Fielding's famous character from her 1996 novel is beginning a whole new life, referenced in newspapers and the House of Commons.

Whatever the outcome of the MH370 mystery, the essential idea of Lost Horizon will never die. It will fly on forever. For this novel from the black-and-white era gives voice to that part of us which gazes at all our own lost horizons.

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