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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to Computing Frontiers 2012. The conference, now in its ninth year, provides a forum where researchers meet to exchange ideas in all areas of computer science. True to its roots, this year's conference comprises a set of diversified and interdisciplinary papers and presentations on novel processors and network technologies, supervised memories, energy efficient computing, streaming applications and systems, and performance modeling. New this year are two special sessions on the use artificial intelligence in games and European Exascale projects. To support graduate student research, we reserved space within the poster session for Ph.D. students. The session provides students an opportunity to publish early results and receive critical commentary. We hope that you enjoy both the special sessions and the Ph.D. forum and that both become permanent fixtures at future conferences.

The call for papers attracted 81 submissions from across the World. The peer review process was rigorous with most papers receiving four reviews. Papers were discussed extensively during the program committee meeting. The committee accepted 23 full papers and 11 poster presentations. The papers in the proceedings have been revised by the authors in consideration of referee comments. The poster presentations appear in the proceedings as short papers with a three-page limit. Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Moray McLaren who will speak on integration of photonic and electronic computing.