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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Massimo Alioto <<a href="mailto:massimo.alioto@gmail.com">massimo.alioto@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>first MEAD course on energy-constrained integrated systems (AI, IoT)</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">27 Nov 2018 05:08:52 GMT+1<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">undisclosed-recipients:;<br></span></div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;">Dear</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;"> </span><span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;">colleagues</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;"> and </span><span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;">friends</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 14.2pt;">,</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are very excited to share that the prestigious <span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il">MEAD </span>Education courses now include a brand new course on "Energy-Constrained Integrated Systems". The course will be held in the wonderful Singapore on December 10th-14th, 2018, at the National University of Singapore (NUS) campus.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHY AND WHO SHOULD ATTEND</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">This intensive course provides a broad and solid coverage of the challenges and cutting-edge solutions to design integrated circuits under a tight energy/power budget (e.g., embedded AI, IoT, biomedical, wearables, and others).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the same time, some lectures are dedicated to in-depth understanding of state-of-the-art techniques to reduce the consumption of major sub-systems, including analog/data converters, power management, digital, wireless communications, on-chip machine learning, related design methodologies, and several case studies based on silicon demonstrations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The course organization makes it very well suited for engineers, designers from industry and researchers from academia who want to quickly master the fundamentals, gain a deep insight into the state of the art, and learn new and advanced design techniques for next-generation integrated systems with extremely low consumption.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">BENEFITS AND VALUE</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The speakers are world-renowned leaders in the areas covered by the course, who are glad to share their expertise and knowledge in an interactive manner.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pragmatic teaching style aims to build up knowledge quickly and effectively, introducing case studies to exemplify the fundamental concepts and highlight the practical implications.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">INFORMATION</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">For further information, feel free to contact <span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il">MEAD</span>Education (Caroline Huber, <a href="mailto:education@mead.ch" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">education@<span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il">mead</span>.ch</a>), Prof. Massimo Alioto (<a href="mailto:malioto@ieee.org" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">malioto@ieee.org</a>), and Prof. Eduard Alarcon (<a href="mailto:eduard.alarcon@upc.edu" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">eduard.alarcon@upc.edu</a>). Feel free to visit the following website: <a href="http://mead.ch/MEADNEW/Courses/singapore/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">http://<span class="m_2704563932529418657m_1365385415329724883gmail-il">mead</span>.ch/MEADNEW/Courses/singapore/</a></span></p><div style="margin: 0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">We really look forward to seeing you in Singapore and sharing the exciting experience of this new course. With our best wishes</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt; text-indent: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Geneva;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 15.85pt 3pt 14.2pt;text-indent:14.2pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Geneva"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Massimo Alioto and Eduard Alarcon</span></p></div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------------------<br>Massimo Alioto, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor<br>Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>National University of Singapore<br>4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore 117583<br>Office E4-05-24<br>Homepage: <a href="http://www.green-ic.org/" target="_blank">http://www.green-ic.org</a><br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:malioto@ieee.org" target="_blank">malioto@ieee.org</a>, <a href="mailto:massimo.alioto@gmail.com" target="_blank">massimo.alioto@gmail.com</a><br>Phone: +65-65-162126<br>Fax : +65-67791103</div></div>
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