U.S. - Japan Seminar: Parallel Symbolic Computing: Languages, Systems, and Applications/October 1992/ Cambridge, Massachusetts

该奖项将支持8名美国科学家参与 a美国-日本并行符号计算研讨会： 语言、系统和应用，将在剑桥举行， 1992年10月13日至16日，马萨诸塞州。 协办单位为 麻省理工学院计算机实验室的阿南特·阿加瓦尔教授 科学和罗伯特霍尔斯特德的数字设备公司， 和信息学系的Takayasu Ito教授 日本仙台东北大学工学院。 的目标 研讨会将把美国和日本研究人员聚集在一起， 讨论重要的共同理论和实施 问题，并行符号计算的应用领域，如何 将并行性更广泛地用于符号计算， 研究合作的机会。 并行和分布式计算正变得越来越重要 作为实现高计算效率的经济有效的方法， 性能 符号计算广泛应用于 因此，并行符号计算很重要， 计算以其使用不规则数据结构而闻名 (such树、列表和图形）和不规则的数据驱动 对他们的操作。 因此，并行符号计算具有 自身独特的技术挑战。 研讨会将 在使美国和日本的研究人员 了解其他国家的进展，并帮助他们 了解更多关于他们自己国家的研究。

This award will support the participation of eight U.S. scientists in a U.S.-Japan Seminar on Parallel Symbolic Computing: Languages, Systems, and Applications, to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts October 13-16, 1992. The co-organizers are Professor Anant Agarwal of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Robert Halstead of Digital Equipment Corporation, and Professor Takayasu Ito, Department of Information Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. The objectives of the seminar are to bring U.S. and Japanese researchers together to discuss important common theoretical and implementation problems, application areas for parallel symbolic computing, how to move parallelism into wider use for symbolic computing, and opportunities for research collaboration. Parallel and distributed computing are becoming increasingly important as cost-effective ways to achieve high computational performance. Symbolic computing is widespread in applications and hence parallel symbolic computing is important, but symbolic computations are notable for their use of irregular data structures (such as trees, lists, and graphs) and irregular, data-driven operations on them. As a result, parallel symbolic computing has its own distinctive set of technical challenges. The seminar will be valuable in making researchers in the United States and Japan more aware of progress in the other country as well as helping them learn more about research in their own countries.