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Galois Tech talk: Computers As We Don’t Know Them
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Computers As We Don’t Know Them
Christof Teuscher, PhD
Since the beginning of modern computer science some sixty years ago,
we are building computers in pretty much the same way. Silicon
transistor electronics serves as a physical device, the von Neumann
architecture provides a computer design model, while the abstract
Turing machine concept supports the theoretical foundations. However,
in recent years, unimagined computing devices have seen the light
because of advances in synthetic biology, nanotechnology, material
science, and neuroscience. Many of these novel devices share the
following characteristics: (1) they are made up from massive numbers
of simple, stochastic components which (2) are embedded in 2D or 3D
space in some disordered way. A grand challenge in consists in
developing computing paradigms, design methodologies, formal
frameworks, architectures, and tools that allow to reliably compute
and efficiently solve problems with such devices. In this talk, I will
outline my visionary and long-term research efforts to address the
grand challenge of building, organizing, and programming future
computing machines. First, I will review exemplary future and emerging
computing devices and highlight the particular challenges that arise
for performing computations them. I will then delineate potential
solutions on how these challenges might be addressed. Self-assembled
nano-scale cellular automata (CAs) and random boolean networks (RBNs)
will serve as a simple showcase. I will also present the efforts
underway to self-assemble massive-scale nanowire-based interconnect
fabrics for spatial computers and what the challenges are in terms of
computations and communication in such a non-classical system.
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2010-08-17 10:30:00 -0700 |
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Galois Tech talk: Computers As We Don’t Know Them |
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http://www.galois.com/blog/2010/08/11/tech-talk-computers-as-we-dont-know-them/ |
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