IEEE International Symposium on
Open Source Science (OSS 2023)

The inaugural IEEE Symposium on Open Source Science (OSS) is a dedicated platform to showcasing the impact of open-source technology on scientific advancements. It brings together experts from academia, research, and industry to discuss how open-source software is helping drive discoveries and breakthroughs in various scientific fields, including cybersecurity, material sciences, climate and sustainability, healthcare and life sciences, etc. The symposium will feature a plenary panel at the IEEE SERVICES 2023, distinguished speeches, panels, an OSS Expo of live demos, and OSS Awardee presentations. The presentations and discussions from the creators of these open-source technologies provide attendees with a unique opportunity to learn about their experiences and challenges. Join us to explore the vital role of open source in driving scientific progress.

The inaugural IEEE OSS Expo is open to all registrants of the IEEE SERVICES event. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to provide on-site demos of their open-source data/software contributions at the Expo. The participants are welcome to share OSS-related career growth opportunities. Monetary sponsorship for the OSS Expo will be appreciated.

The inaugural IEEE OSS Award builds upon the success of last year’s Open Software Services Award with a focus on contributions to scientific advancements. Effort made in cross-disciplinary collaboration will be appreciated in the evaluation process.

Program

Date/Time Session Presentation
Monday 7/3
14:00 - 15:10
Location: Regency Ballroom C
OSS Expo The Analog in-Memory Hardware Acceleration Kit (AIHWKIT)
Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
OSS Artifacts:
https://github.com/IBM/aihwkit
https://aihw-composer.draco.res.ibm.com
https://aihwkit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Konveyor DiVA
Yasu Katsuno, IBM Research - Tokyo
OSS Artifact: https://github.com/konveyor/tackle-diva
Wednesday 7/5
14:00 - 15:10
Location: Regency Ballroom C
OSS Expo Apache Airavata
Suresh Marru, IBM Quantum
OSS Artifacts: https://github.com/apache/airavata
https://airavata.apache.org/

Kepler
Marcelo Amaral, IBM Research - Tokyo
OSS Artifacts:
https://github.com/sustainable-computing-io/kepler
https://sustainable-computing.io
Wednesday 7/5
15:25 - 16:25
Location: Regency Ballroom C
OSS Expo Quantum Serverless
Paco Martin and Iskander Sitdikov, IBM
OSS Artifacts:
https://github.com/Qiskit-Extensions/quantum-serverless
https://qiskit-extensions.github.io/quantum-serverless/

Qiskit
Luciano Bello, IBM Quantum
OSS Artifacts:
https://qiskit.org/
https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit


AnalogNAS
Hadjer Benmeziane, Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France and Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
OSS Artifact:
https://github.com/IBM/analog-nas
Thursday 7/6
10:50 - 12:00
Location: Regency Ballroom A/B
Plenary Panel: Open Source in Science & Enterprise
Thursday 7/6
14:00 - 15:10
Location: Regency Ballroom A/B
OSS_SYM_1 Talks by:
Carlos Maltzahn, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Paige Martin, Program Scientist & Program Officer, NASA

Hridesh Rajan, Kingland Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University

Ing. Oskar Elek, Postdoctoral Research and Fellow at Open Source Program Office, UC Santa Cruz
Thursday 7/6
15:25 - 16:35
Location: Regency Ballroom A/B
OSS_SYM_2
Thursday 7/6
16:50 - 18:00
Location: Haymarket
OSS_SYM_3 Qiskit - Open-source Quantum Development
Iskander Sitdikov, IBM Quantum and Luciano Bello, IBM Quantum

Qiskit, a highly popular open-source framework for Quantum Computing, has significantly influenced the research landscape in this field. In this talk, we delve into specific examples of research made possible by Qiskit and explore its utility for developing an ecosystem of extensions. Additionally, we highlight the collaborative nature of the development community and its interaction with IBM Quantum, its main developer, emphasizing the values of openness and transparency. Join us to discover the transformative impact of Qiskit on quantum research and the dynamic community shaping its future.

IEEE OSS Awards

Winners of the 2023 OSS awards are:

  • Liwei Huang, Yutao Ma, Yanbo Liu, Keqing He and Deyi Li
    A Suite of Human Mobility Prediction Algorithms
  • Hadjer Benmeziane, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Corey Lammie, Irem Boybat, Malte Rasch, Manuel Le Gallo, Hsinyu Tsai, Abu Sebastian and Vijay Narayanan
    AnalogNAS: A Flexible and Modular Analog Neural Architecture Search Library
  • Xiaofeng Mao, Yuefeng Chen, Rong Zhang, Hui Xue, Zhao Li and Hang Su
    EasyRobust: A Comprehensive and Easy-to-use Toolkit for Robust and Generalized Vision
  • Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Malte Rasch, Manuel Le Gallo-Bourdeau, Julian Büchel, Charles Mackin, Corey Lammie, Tayfun Gokmen, Omobayode Fagbohungbe, Fabio Carta, Kim Tran, Kurtis Ruby, Borja Godoy, Jordan Murray, Todd Deshane, Diego Moreda, Abu Sebastian and Vijay Narayanan
    The Analog In-Memory Hardware Acceleration Open-Source and Cloud Platform
  • Romeo Kienzler, Rafflesia Khan, Jerome Nilmeier, Ivan Nesic and Ibrahim Haddad
    CLAIMED the open source framework for building coarse-grained operators for accelerated discovery in science
  • Luciano Bello
    Qiskit: open-source framework for quantum computing

Submission Guidelines for the IEEE OSS Award

  • Every submission in EasyChair is one single PDF file without embedded videos.
  • Indicate explicitly the category of submission: “Student” or “Professional”
  • The lead contributor of a “Student” submission must be an active graduate student at application submission time and the team members can include contributing mentors in academic or industry.
  • The list of contributors cannot be changed after the submission deadline.
  • Open-source contributions under Apache 2.0 licensing terms or less restrictive ones
  • Availability of free access/download URLs for, e.g., public GIT repos, S3 buckets, Docker Hub images, etc.
  • Factual data showing utilization of the open source contributions, e.g., download counts, API service invocation statistics, document citation counts, etc.
  • Documents for, e.g., consumers, developers, practitioners, researchers, etc.
  • Award Committee Members may contact the applicants for clarification on submitted materials.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR OSS AWARD SUBMISSIONS

January 1, 2023: EasyChair opens for draft submissions
June 24, 2023: EasyChair closes for submissions
July 7, 2023: Awardee notifications
July 2-8, 2023: IEEE SERVICES in Chicago

SUBMISSION TRACK and LINK

Track: “[OSS] IEEE Symposium on Open Source Science” at the IEEE SERVICES 2023 EasyChair site

Award Submission - EasyChair

Join the OSS Expo!

The OSS Symposium features the first live-demo based OSS Expo of the IEEE Computer Society, with OSS Award winner participants and on-site OSS contributors.

OSS Expo - Sign up!

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair
Alexy Khrabrov, IBM Research, Almaden

Program Chair
Tim Bonnemann, IBM Research, Almaden

Awards Chairs
Manar Abu Taleb, University of Sharjah
Kommy Weldemariam, IBM Research, Yorktown

Awards Committee Members
Dima Alhadidi, University of Windsor
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University
Imène Brigui, Emlyon Business School
Bayan Mahfoud, University of Sharjah
Rabeb Mizouni, Khalifa University
Rasha Morsi, Norfolk State, University
Josef Spillner, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Sirine Taleb, American University of Beirut
Xiao Xue, Tianjin University

CONTACT

For any questions regarding IEEE OSS Symposium, please email: ieeecs-oss@computer.org