The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science of Columbia University News
Electrical Engineering Professor Keren Bergman will chair a national conference that for the first time will be hosted outside California's Silicon Valley.
The Hot Interconnects conference will be held in Lower Manhattan Aug. 25-27. Bergman said there is a good rationale for the move to Wall Street after spending its first 16 years on the Stanford University campus.
"The main reason is that the technology we cover at this conference related to high-performance networking is becoming extremely relevant to Wall Street," she says. "In fact, our conference is going to be hosted by Credit Suisse attracting many of the top Wall Street technologists and traders. The key topic is related to high-frequency trading."
A preview of the conference was recently published on the EE Times Web site. The New York Times explored high-frequency trading in the July 23 story "Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds."
"This is becoming a big topic," Bergman says, "from technology, finance, and political aspects."
She describes Hot Interconnects as "the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from on-chip interconnects to wide-area networks." Leaders from industry, academia, and government laboratories will be attending the conference to interact with individuals at the forefront of these fields.
