I visited Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, on 15 of August 2018. The reason I came here is to participate in a great conference in China: China Testing Conference 2018 (CTC’18). I delivered a 15 minutes speech on approximate computing. Here is the link of the slides (English): PDF
This presentation introduces the works of our team accepted to ICCAD’18 in the section of ICCAD Pre-conference in CTC’18. Concretely, my work “AXNet: ApproXimate computing using an end-to-end trainable neural network” and my fellow’s work “Invocation-driven Neural Approximate Computing with a Multiclass-Classifier and Multiple Approximators” were included.
Harbin is a great city, which makes me remind my experience at Berkeley. Here is cool all day and the baroque style architecture are fascinating. One hundred years ago, Harbin became a great city due to the tremendous migration of foreign people, especially Russian and Jewish, triggered by the buildup of the sophisticated railway network.
The food here composes both traditional Man’s food and taste of central China along with the migration from the north China plains as well as Russian.
I have heard about the economic in nowadays East-Western China. This trip also provides some evidence: At 9:00 PM the streets become empty except the barbeque shops and massage shops (you know what they are, right?). Many buildings are totally light-free at night. The road is extremely dark, maybe because of the absence of light pollution.
Thanks to professor Li Jiang, who invited me to join this conference. This my first trip visited “East-Western Triple Provinces”, even though it’s culture impact me for so long. I bring 11 sticks of Harbin Red-Sausage and 3 bottles Gewas to my friends and family. Wish they like them!
