Pakistani gets coveted award for groundbreaking Super computer reseach

[Kompromat]

Pakistani gets coveted award for groundbreaking computer reseach


ISLAMABAD, May 7 (APP) - Basit Riaz Sheikh, a Pakistani Ph.D candidate at the Cornell University, the United States has become the first Pakistani to win the “Supercomputer Design Award” at Global Scientific Conference-2010 held in Grenoble, France.Basit has won the coveted ‘best paper award’ for his groundbreaking research work in the state-of-the-art computer design, according to the information reaching here on Friday.



He is the son of former Additional Director General Riaz Sheikh of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
The world’s fastest supercomputers are characterized by the number of offleading-point operations they can perform in one second. Basit has presented the design and implementation of a first high performance “asynchronous floating-point” unit.

Basit, a AVLSI Lab student at the prestigious Cornell University, has fully implemented transistor-level design that not only performed at 3.2 times higher speed, but also consumed six times less energy.
Basit Sheikh is conducting his research under an eminent scientist Prof. Manohar, who recently co-founded Achronix Semiconductor, a $100 million giga-scale asynchronous chip design company.


Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Pakistani gets coveted award for groundbreaking computer reseach

 

[Areesh]

Great work Basit Riaz Sheikh... We are proud of you.

 

[sparklingway]

The work seems to be genuinely promising, but the funnies thing is that he's the son of the disgraced Ahmed Riaz Sheikh. One of his sons, I don't remember the name precisely, works in the Aiwan e Sadr. Aiwan e Sadr claimed that he does not take a pay but the media claimed that he was on MP-1 scale.

The other son looks to be genuinely talented.

But, not to undermine his talent or his achievement, this is a best paper award at a conference. When looking at the CVs of well established researchers, conference papers don't even matter. Only journal submissions, and the important journals only, are considered worthy of mention on resumes and bios. Conference papers aren't "coveted" awards.

I see people writing "first in the world" and "breakthrough" with everything. His research, if indeed, and I hope it is, breakthrough then will definitely be published in the transactions of the IEEE the next quarter. That indeed is a personal and professional achievement.

Anyways, best of luck to the guy. Hope he comes back and teaches VLSI, AVLSI and distributed computing in Pakistan. There are many Pakistani researchers who have done good work in this field, sadly they are hampered by the lack of resources at their hands. Dr. Shahid Bokhari, a great teacher and a great Pakistani is one such example.

Follow link to read a note his sister posted on his wall:-
http://www.facebook.com/basit.r.she...mier-global-computer-design/10150201361365241

 

[SinoIndusFriendship]

Pakistani gets coveted award for groundbreaking computer reseach


ISLAMABAD, May 7 (APP) - Basit Riaz Sheikh, a Pakistani Ph.D candidate at the Cornell University, the United States has become the first Pakistani to win the “Supercomputer Design Award” at Global Scientific Conference-2010 held in Grenoble, France.Basit has won the coveted ‘best paper award’ for his groundbreaking research work in the state-of-the-art computer design, according to the information reaching here on Friday.



He is the son of former Additional Director General Riaz Sheikh of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
The world’s fastest supercomputers are characterized by the number of offleading-point operations they can perform in one second. Basit has presented the design and implementation of a first high performance “asynchronous floating-point” unit.

Basit, a AVLSI Lab student at the prestigious Cornell University, has fully implemented transistor-level design that not only performed at 3.2 times higher speed, but also consumed six times less energy.
Basit Sheikh is conducting his research under an eminent scientist Prof. Manohar, who recently co-founded Achronix Semiconductor, a $100 million giga-scale asynchronous chip design company.


Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Pakistani gets coveted award for groundbreaking computer reseach

Question is:

Is he going to share his knowledge with his fellow Pakistanis???

 

[shining eyes]

its a very good thing but the MAIN THING IS"IF HE WILL BE GIVING HIS MOTHERLAND SOMETHING?"

 

[Kompromat]

^^ Time will tell.

 

[Kompromat]

Do NOT turn my thread into Pak vs Ind.

 

[QADRI]

Great work...

 

[mehru]

Basit! We are proud of you. And credit goes to his Indian supervisor as well.

 

[mehru]

HI,
Did the teacher win the similar award? If NO then your claims are flawed

No! the credit goes to his teacher as well. Supervisor is the one who guides you in the research work.

 

[kallol]

It agian proves that this combination is very good for both countries and individually.

There are plenty of examples. But alas that we are tied up by our web.

 

[karan.1970]

Good job Basit.. you make the whole of south Asia (specially Pakistan) proud...

 

[kashith]

finally some progress for indians and pakistanis working together

 

[Kinetic]

Good to hear that Mr. Basit win this prize. More happy that two Indian and Pakistani working outside their own countries together.

 

[Kompromat]

I have a weird feeling that the talent does not just belong to a country , it Belongs to the whole humanity.

My Mother used to say:

An able and intelligent kid is a son of everyone that they can take his pride , but a lazy and worthless kid only belongs to his/her own parents because they are the ones to carry his/her shame.