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Online registration now open! The keynote address at the 2008 Reconfigurable Systems Summer Institute (RSSI'08 / http://www.rssi2008.org) will be given by Jose L. Munoz, deputy director and senior science advisor for the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. His talk, "Reconfigurable Computing: It's Like Deja-vu All Over Again," will examine the challenges of using programmable gates to do reconfigurable computing--an attractive approach to meet the high-speed demands that can typically be met only by hardware, and at the same time to satisfy the need for adapting to ever changing demands typically satisfied by software. Yet the many challenges brought about by trying to satisfy these two masters are still largely unmet. What were some of the original goals of reconfigurable computing? What approaches were going to be followed to meet those goals? How successful were they? Are the same goals and opportunities applicable today? How have things changed (or have they)? Munoz previously was director of the Simulation and Computer Science Office at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI) program. In this position, he was responsible for software development environments. As program manager and assistant director of DARPA's Information Technology Office, he led activities in embedded computing, adaptive computing, and data-intensive computing. He has several publications and one patent in the area of high-performance sonar/signal processing. Online registration now open! Online registration for RSSI'08 is now open! Registration is $75 for industry, academic, and government attendees; $50 for students. Fees can be paid via credit card at the secure registration site (www.rssi2008.org/register). If you have questions about the registration process, contact: ask@rssi2008.org. RSSI'08 will be held July 7-10, 2008, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. RSSI brings together scientists and technology developers from industry and academia to present and discuss new research on high-performance reconfigurable computing. It is organized by NCSA (www.ncsa.uiuc.edu), OpenFPGA (www.openfpga.org), the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC / www.chrec.org) and the University of Manchester (www.manchester.ac.uk). Corporate sponsors are: Altera, AMD, Intel, Mitrionics, SGI, and SRC. Go to www.rssi2008.org for complete details.