ITR: NSF Workshop on NanoComputing, Oct. 15-17, 2002

研讨会的目标是汇集多学科的研究人员，以确定和探索有前途的研究方向，以替代CMOS，即纳米技术。研究人员来自不同的社区，包括计算机科学、设计自动化、计算机体系结构、设备物理学家和物理设计师。该研讨会旨在指出计算机科学家和工程师可以对纳米电子计算机技术做出重要贡献的领域。研究人员将提交立场文件，然后进行讨论和分组讨论，每个人都参与其中。正在讨论的示例问题有：为了基于纳米电子原理设计、制造和编程未来的计算机，设计科学将如何变化？什么是允许对纳米计算机设计进行富有成效的研究的可行抽象？纳米技术社区需要计算机科学和工程方面的哪些技术？需要什么投资，什么时候促进纳米计算计算技术的适当发展？为了提供一个广泛的输入到车间，将有一个车间网站。在会议之前，有兴趣的各方可以在网站上发表对研讨会主题的评论。会议将准备一份研讨会报告草稿，发布在研讨会网站上，并征求研究人员的评论。

The goal of the workshop is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to identify and explore promising research directions in the alternatives to CMOS, that is, nano-based technologies. The researchers come from diverse communities including computer science, design automation, computer architecture, device physicists, and physical designers. The workshop aims at pinpointing the areas in which computer scientists and engineers can make important contributions to the technology of nanoelectronic computers. Researchers are to present position papers followed by discussions and breakout groups in which everyone participates. Sample questions being addressed are:How will design sciences change in order to design, build and program future computers based on nanoelectronic principles?What are the enabling abstractions that permit productive research on the design of nano computers?What technologies from computer science and engineering are needed by the nanotechnology community?What investments are needed and when to foster proper development of computing technologies for nano computing?In order to provide a broad input to the workshop, there will be a workshop website. Prior to the meeting, comments from interested parties about the workshop topics can be posted on the website. A draft workshop report will be prepared at the meeting, posted on the workshop website and commentary from researchers solicited.