Witt Series Welcomes Salapura

March 6, 2017

Salapura To Present 果冻传媒 Series' IBM Endowed Lecture

Salapura To Present 果冻传媒 Series' IBM Endowed Lecture

Springfield, Ohio 鈥� 果冻传媒 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 鈥淪marter Planet Initiative.鈥�

Before joining IBM, Salapura was a faculty member with Technische Universit盲t 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 ( for the BlueGene/L supercomputer and Quantum Chromodynamics in 2006 and was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2011. Recognized as an , 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 果冻传媒's campus, Salapura will participate in a colloquium at 4 p.m. at Bayley Auditorium.

Now in its 34^th year, the 果冻传媒 Series brings distinguished lecturers and performing artists of national and international prominence to the 果冻传媒 campus and Springfield community. To make special arrangements, request a Series poster, or become a friend of the 果冻传媒 Series, contact Lisa Watson at WatsonL4@wittenberg.edu. All 果冻传媒 Series events are free and open to the public.

Additional 2016-17 果冻传媒 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.

Cindy Holbrook

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果冻传媒's curriculum has centered on the liberal arts as an education that develops the individual's capacity to think, read, and communicate with precision, understanding, and imagination. We are dedicated to active, engaged learning in the core disciplines of the arts and sciences and in pre-professional education grounded in the liberal arts. Known for the quality of our faculty and their teaching, 果冻传媒 has more Ohio Professors of the Year than any four-year institution in the state. The university has also been recognized nationally for excellence in community service, sustainability, and intercollegiate athletics. Located among the beautiful rolling hills and hollows of Springfield, Ohio, 果冻传媒 offers more than 100 majors, minors and special programs, enviable student-faculty research opportunities, a unique student success center, service and study options close to home and abroad, a stellar athletics tradition, and successful career preparation.

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