Workshop on
Computing with Unconventional Technologies (CUT):
from Processing to Interconnects, and Beyond...
Workshop on
Computing with Unconventional Technologies (CUT):
from Processing to Interconnects, and Beyond…
Collocated with International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2019
October 21-24, 2019, Alexandria, VA, U.S.A.
The growing performance needs of modern data-driven applications related to the internet-of-things (IoT), Big Data, and artificial intelligence, demand for increasingly higher levels of computational complexity, storage capacity, and communication performance in computing devices. Moreover, due to the rapidly growing deployment of computing devices across the globe, the total annual energy consumption for computing is projected to account for up to 20-25% of the annual primary energy consumption globally, by early in the next decade. Therefore, to meet the proliferating demands for computing without overshooting the global energy budget, scaling up the performance of the future computing devices with significant improvement in their energy-efficiency is of paramount importance. However, the computing industry will no longer be able to scale up computing capability and energy-efficiency using the basic approach of scaling down the transistor feature sizes, because of the imminent end of Moore’s law with the 2D lithography scaling approaching its fundamental physical limit. To address this issue, recent research efforts have focused on new “Beyond-Moore” technologies and architectures for computing. To unfold various aspects of the cutting-edge research in these unconventional paradigms of computing, a special workshop named ‘Computing with Unconventional Technologies (CUT): from Processing to Interconnects, and Beyond…’ will be organized as part of the IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing conference 2019. The objective of this workshop is to provide a premier platform for the researchers and practitioners across the globe to come together, share ideas, and exchange valuable information. The workshop will consist of invited presentations and peer-reviewed research papers. The topics of interest in this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Natural and Molecular Computing
- DNA Storage
- DNA Self-Assembly
- Bio-inspired Computation
- Stochastic Computing
- Emerging interconnect technologies (e.g., photonic, wireless, plasmonic)
- Emerging memory technologies (e.g., PCM, STT-RAM, RRAM)
- Emerging integration and packaging technologies (e.g., 3D-stacking, monolithic 3D)
- Optical volatile and non-volatile memories
- All optical logic design
- Photonic neural networks
- In-memory computing
- Quantum computing
Author Information:
Electronic submissions of full papers (regular as well as invited) in PDF format are sought. All submitted papers will be reviewed and evaluated on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, interest, and relevance to the scope of the workshop. Invited speakers at the workshop can also have their papers published in the official conference proceedings, if they submit their papers following the submission guidelines before the deadline mentioned below, although it is not mandatory for the invited speakers to have their papers submitted and published.
Please note that for consideration of inclusion in the final conference Proceedings on IEEE Xplore, each accepted paper (regular or invited), at any category, requires a conference registration at full (non-student or not-discounted) rate, plus an expected presentation of the paper at the CUT workshop.
Camera-Ready Submission Guidelines:
Please follow the guidelines given on https://www.igscc.org/camera-ready, except for bullet #4. Instead of the submission link provided on bullet #4, use the following link to submit your papers for the workshop.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cut19
Please note that submitted workshop manuscripts may not exceed a total of 6 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, references, etc.
Important Dates:
Camera-ready papers due: October 07, 2019
Logistics for Speakers/Authors:
Below you find some important information regarding your participation at the workshop.
- The workshop is scheduled on Monday, October 21, 2019. The final program for the workshop will be made available soon on the IGSCC website.
- We request all invited speakers, who don't want their papers to appear in the proceedings of IGSCC 2019, to email a 1-page summary (title+abstract+biosketch) of their talks to igthakkar@uky.edu by October 17, 2019.
- Invited speakers, who want to have their work appear in the proceedings of IGSCC 2019, must make their final submissions (papers of up to 6 pages in length) by the end of October 7, 2019. Details for submissions can be found above.
- We would like to encourage all authors/speakers to register for the conference ASAP now. The following two options are available for registration. To register, visit https://www.igscc.org/register
- Authors/speakers with a paper to appear in the proceedings must opt for "Paper-Author Registration" at full rate
- Speakers with no papers to appear in the proceedings can opt for "Invited Speakers" registration at a discounted rate. To get the discount code, please email the Workshops Chair, Amlan Ganguly (axgeec@rit.edu).
- Presentations are 25 mins + 5 mins Q&A.
- The workshop room will have a windows computer supporting ppt. Preferably, all presentations should be done from that computer.
- Please bring your presentation in a USB drive so that it can be uploaded on that computer before your session.
List of Confirmed Speakers:
- Marc Riedel, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota (Topic: DNA/Stochastic Computing)
- Henry Dietz, Professor, University of Kentucky (Title: Parallel Bit Pattern Computing)
- Ryan Kim, Assistant Professor, Colorado State University (Title: Learning-Based Design Space Exploration of Emerging 3D NoC Architectures)
- Dharnidhar Dang, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego (Title: When Jule/Bits Matters: Neuromorphic Emerges!)
- Amlan Ganguly, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology (Title: Energy-Efficiency of Data Centers of the Future: The Role of Wireless Communications)
Workshop Organizers:
Ishan Thakkar, University of Kentucky
Sayed Ahmad Salehi, University of Kentucky
Please direct questions regarding this workshop to Ishan Thakkar (igthakkar@uky.edu) or Sayed Ahmad Salehi (SayedSalehi@uky.edu).