Plenary Panel: Convergence of High-Performance Computing and Communication, Smart City, and Data Sciences and Systems: Fields Helping Grand Challenges and Each Other

Summary form only given. The complete presentation was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. The plenary panel “Convergence of High-Performance Computing and Communication, Smart City, and Data Sciences and Systems: Fields Helping Grand Challenges and Each Other” involved researchers from all three collocated conferences. Panel Moderator and Co-Organizer: H.J. Siegel, Professor Emeritus, previously Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science, Colorado State University; Fellow IEEE, Fellow ACM, HPCC Program Committee Co- Chair. Co-Organizer: Prof. Siddharth Suryanarayanan, Associate Professor and the Rhoden Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Colorado State University; Smart City Program Committee Member. This was a 90 minute panel. Panelists were requested to answer the list of four questions that follow. The moderator encouraged the panelists to critique the other panelists’ ideas so this was an interactive panel, not just a set of mini-talks. The interaction among panelists was followed by interaction between the panelists and the audience.