Salapura To Present Wittenberg Series' IBM Endowed Lecture
Springfield, Ohio – Wittenberg University will welcome IBM Master Inventor and System Architect Valentina Salapura for its annual IBM Endowed Lecture in the Sciences at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, in Bayley Auditorium of the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center.
An IBM master inventor and system architect at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Salapura is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an IEEE Fellow. She leads the development of analytics platforms for cloud computing and is chief engineer for Resilience and High Availability for several IBM cloud offerings, such as IBM Watson Health Cloud and IBM Cloud Managed Services. She will speak on innovation at IBM and “Smarter Planet Initiative.”
Before joining IBM, Salapura was a faculty member with Technische Universität Wien, Austria, where she conducted pioneering research into application acceleration and invented the first application accelerators for fuzzy logic and deep learning.
She received the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Special Achievements for the BlueGene/L supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics in 2006 and was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011. Recognized as an ACM Distinguished Speaker, Salapura has received several IBM Research division awards, including an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
Additionally, Salapura has received several IBM corporate awards for her technical contributions, is the author of more than 80 papers and several book chapters on processor and network architecture, holds more than 120 patents in this area, and has given 13 keynotes and invited talks that identified the challenges for future multiprocessors and supercomputer design.
While on Wittenberg's campus, Salapura will participate in a colloquium at 4 p.m. at Bayley Auditorium.
Now in its 34th year, the Wittenberg Series brings distinguished lecturers and performing artists of national and international prominence to the Wittenberg campus and Springfield community. To make special arrangements, request a Series poster, or become a friend of the Wittenberg Series, contact Lisa Watson at WatsonL4@wittenberg.edu. All Wittenberg Series events are free and open to the public.
Additional 2016-17 Wittenberg Series Events:
- Friday, March 31, 2017: William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture, 7:30 p.m. Bayley Auditorium, The Bioarchaeology of the African Burial Ground in New York City, featuring Michael Blakey, American anthropologist.
