Prof. Castrillon organized a special session: “Hot Topic - Multi/Many-Core Programming: Where Are We Standing?” at Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. DATE is a leading international event for design and engineering of Systems-on-Chip, Systems-on-Board and Embedded Systems Software. There were six contributions from different speakers at the session, including views from researchers working in methods in academia, from companies offering solutions and from companies requiring solutions (more details). Prof. Castrillon gave a talk on programming methodologies for multimedia and signal processing applications, and provide an outlook about the challenges addressed in the HAEC and cfaed large-scale projects.