1st Int'l Wkshp. on Reversible Computing, Ischia, Italy, May 4-6, 2005
Michael P. Frank
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ANNOUNCING
RC'05: The First Int'l. Workshop on
REVERSIBLE COMPUTING
A Key Challenge for 21st Century Computing
http://www.eng.fsu.edu/~mpf/CF05/RC05.htm
a special session at
ACM Computing Frontiers 2005 (CF'05)
Ischia, Italy, May 4-6, 2005
http://beatys1.mscd.edu/compfront/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Raw digital computing performance per unit of power consumption
cannot improve for very many orders of magnitude beyond present
levels, unless we can move towards computing technologies that
dissipate increasingly small fractions of signal energies (and
generate increasingly little new entropy) per logic operation
performed.
Although it has never been proven to be impossible to
approach the limit of thermodynamically reversible operation in
practical machines, skepticism and misconceptions regarding this
subject abound, and will likely persist until complete, concrete,
and competitive reversible computing systems have been built and
demonstrated.
This workshop will attempt to gather together leading
experts in the field of reversible computing, to identify and
discuss the important open technical problems in reversible
computing, while also addressing the social, political and
educational issues that threaten to prevent the practical
realization of reversible computing within our lifetimes. The
goal of the discussion will be to reach a consensus regarding
what concrete steps we as researchers can take in the near
future to help the field to overcome these barriers.
The session will begin with a short introductory tutorial
on reversible computing, continue with paper presentations (with
emphasis on the important, big-picture issues), and conclude with
a panel discussion framed to debate the key issues, and attain
a group consensus, together with a plan for further action.
Paper submissions are due by the CF '05 conference deadline
of Dec. 6, 2004. See the CF '05 website (link above) for
instructions for authors. Until further notice, submissions to
this session should be emailed to the session organizer, Michael
P. Frank (m...@eng.fsu.edu).
Session Organizer:
• Michael P. Frank, FSU
Co-organizers:
To be announced
Invited panel speakers:
• Charles H. Bennett, IBM
• Edward Fredkin, CMU West
• Craig Lent, Notre Dame
• Norman Margolus, MIT
• Dmitri Averin, SUNY
• Colin Williams, JPL
Program committee:
To be announced
Topics of interest include:
• Theoretical foundations of reversible computing
• Reversible logic networks
• Reversible processor architectures
• Physics of reversible device implementations
• Clocking, synchronization, and energy recovery issues
• Systems engineering for reversible computing
• Technical objections to reversible computing, and answers to them
• Cultural barriers to reversible computing
Dr. Michael P. Frank, Assistant Professor
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
2525 Pottsdamer Street, Room 341
m...@eng.fsu.edu, phone 850-410-6463, cell 597-2046