Workshop on
Computing with Unconventional Technologies (CUT):
from Processing to Interconnects, and Beyond…
A Virtual Experience Collocated with International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, 2020
October 19-22, 2020, A Live Virtual Event
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 2020. 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:
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
Neuromorphic computing
In-memory computing
Quantum computing
Natural and Molecular Computing
DNA Storage
DNA Self-Assembly
Bio-inspired Computation
The final program of CUT 2020 workshop can be found here.
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. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed a total of 8 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, references, etc.
Paper submission has to be done via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=igsc20). Select the separate track "Computing with Unconventional Technologies (CUT): from Processing to Interconnects, and Beyond…" to submit your paper.
Paper Submission Deadline: September 14, 2020 (AoE)
Acceptance Notifications for Regular Papers: September 28, 2020
Below you find some important information regarding your participation at the workshop.
This year the CUT workshop will be held virtually considering the safety of the participants amid the ongoing pandemic. Details on the exact format of the presentations will be made available on this page soon.
Presentations (live) are expected to be 25 mins long plus additional 5 mins for Q&A. More details will be made available soon.
Registration is required for all invited and regular speakers, as well as attendees.
Please note that for consideration of inclusion in the proceedings (IEEE Xplore), each accepted paper (regular or invited), at any category, requires a conference registration at full (non-student or not-discounted) rate (USD 400 for IEEE members), plus an expected presentation of the paper at the CUT workshop.
Invited speakers with no paper(s) in the proceedings (IEEE Xplore) can register at discounted rate (USD 300).
More information on registration can be found here.
Due to COVID-19 related delays in finalizing the conference program:
We will temporarily make a PDF copy of the Workshop Proceedings (without copyright form collection) available on the IGSC website during the conference so that the conference registrants can have access to the papers.
Once the IEEE copyright forms are ready, we will be in touch to collect the final manuscripts and signed copyright forms in order to have the IGSC Workshop Proceedings available on IEEE Xplore.
Yang (Cindy) Yi, Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Anup Das, Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Deliang Fan, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Abhronil Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Arman Roohi, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Ishan Thakkar, University of Kentucky
Please direct questions regarding this workshop to Ishan Thakkar (igthakkar@uky.edu).