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MAD-Q project: Quantum infrastructure, towards a highly secure communications network.

Past Event

March 18, 2022

This Friday, March 18th, the presentation of the MAD-Q project of the
“Plan Complementario de Comunicaciones Cuánticas” took place, of which Vicente Martín (Director of the CCS and professor at the Universidad Politécnica Madrid) is the scientific coordinator. Various authorities attended the event, including the Minister of Science and Innovation of Spain, Diana Morant.

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Scaling laws in speech processing.

Past Event

October 6, 2021

This talk presents evidence of new scaling laws found in the human voice, originating at temporal scales below the phoneme, where the underlying mechanisms are not cognitive but only rely on the physiology of voice production.

A Glass Half Full: Using Programmable Hardware Accelerators in Analytical Databases

Event in progress

June 5, 2019

Even though there have been a large number of proposals to
accelerate databases using specialized hardware, often the opinion of the community is pessimistic: the performance and energy efficiency benefits of specialization are seen to be outweighed by the limitations of the proposed solutions and the additional complexity of including specialized hardware, such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), in servers.