BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20080309T020000 RDATE:20080309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081031T055620Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081031T150000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081031T140000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081031T055620Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20081031T064252Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456070 DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER: \;\nChristof Teuscher\, Ph.D. \;\nAssistant Pr ofessor\, ECE Department \;\nPortland State University \;\n \;\ nWHERE: \;\nCramer Hall\, Room 171: 1721 SW Broadway \;\n \;\nA BSTRACT: \;\nSince the beginning of modern computer science some sixt y years ago\, we are building computers in more or less the same way. Si licon electronics serves as a physical substrate\, the von Neumann archi tecture provides a computer design model\, while the abstract Turing mac hine concept supports the theoretical foundations. That is changing: in recent years\, unimagined computing substrates have seen the light becau se of advances in synthetic biology\, nanotechnology\, material science\ , and neurobiology. A grand challenge consists in developing computer ar chitectures\, computing paradigms\, design methodologies\, formal framew orks\, and tools that allow to reliably compute and efficiently solve pr oblems with such alternative devices. \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, I wi ll outline my visionary and long-term research efforts to address the gr and challenge of building\, organizing\, and programming future computin g machines. First\, I will review some exemplary future and emerging com puting devices and highlight the particular challenges that arise for pe rforming computations with them. I will then delineate potential solutio ns on how these challenges might be addressed. Self-assembled nano-scale electronics\, cellular automata (CAs)\, and random boolean networks (RB Ns) will serve as a simple showcase. I will show that irregular assembli es and specific interconnects can have major advantages over purely regu lar and locally interconnected fabrics. I will further present the effor ts underway to self-assemble massive-scale nanowire-based interconnect f abrics for spatial computers. \;\n \;\nBIO: \;\nChristof Teusch er holds an assistant professor position in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Portland State University and an Adju nct Assistant Professor appointment in Computer Science at the Universit y of New Mexico (UNM). He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in compute r science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EP FL) in 2000 and 2004 respectively. In 2004 he became a postdoctoral rese archer at the University of California\, San Diego (UCSD)\, in 2005 a di stinguished Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Labora tory\, and in 2007 a Technical Staff Member. His main research interests include emerging computing architectures and paradigms\, biologically-i nspired computing\, complex and adaptive systems\, and cognitive science . Teuscher has received several prestigious awards and fellowships. For more information visit: http://www.teuscher.ch/christof.\n\nTags: comput er science\, psu\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125045607 0 URL:http://www.pdx.edu/events/22061/ SUMMARY:Computers As We Don't Know Them LOCATION:Portland State University Cramer Hall: 1721 SW Broadway\, Portla nd OR 97201 US SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR