Workshop: Interdisciplinary Challenges beyond the Scaling Limits of Moore's Law. To Be Held in Arlington, VA, August 2-4, 2010.

NSF“超越摩尔定律尺度限制的跨学科挑战”研讨会旨在探索超越摩尔定律尺度限制的科学问题和技术挑战，目标是将美国定位在通信和计算技术的前沿，超越当前系统的物理和概念限制。根据摩尔定律的经验观察，直到最近，设备集成水平仍在继续呈指数级增长，因此，计算能力也在不断提高。然而，现在人们普遍认为，由于基本限制和实际限制的共同作用，目前的方法将在未来10年内达到极限。电子产品的持续发展超越了摩尔定律的尺度限制，可能需要更广泛的重新思考，从新材料和设备到电路和系统架构，以便在计算和知识处理技术中采用新的见解。目前的技术已经提供了一些节能系统的例子，这些系统已经发展为各种任务，例如手机中的嵌入式方法或电子阅读器中的特定任务的专门技术。研讨会将探讨如何通过促进跨学科的辩论和对话来克服当前的障碍。研讨会将汇集来自生命科学、化学、物理、数学、材料科学、工程和计算机科学等领域的学术界、政府和工业界的专家，讨论新的计算设备和新的计算方法，以及扩展当前设备和系统进展的方法。需要解决的一些广泛的问题将包括兆级设备的未来，最小化能源利用的策略，克服现有设备技术的电压缩放限制的新材料和设备，以及基于自我修复和编程的可靠性新方法。有希望的方向包括跨学科的架构、算法、材料和设备的融合，以及特定应用的信号方法。前提是一个连贯的工程，其中协同方法从电子科学、材料科学、物理科学、数学和计算机科学中汲取不同的见解，将是必要的。研讨会的一个目标是确定有前途的见解和方向，项目解决方案的电子在2020年的十年。受邀的演讲者将从他们的学科角度强调见解和挑战，并尝试回答事先向他们提出的问题。分组讨论将着重于确定未来研究的最重要主题。由于大规模集成电子的复杂性需要更多的跨学科知识，因此讨论也将为教育带来机会和必要的变化。研讨会将包括半导体器件和计算机体系结构领域的领先从业者，以及在物理、化学、数学、材料科学、分子电子学和纳米级系统领域工作的科学家的演讲。本次研讨会的报告将详细介绍可能在未来许多年处于该领域前沿的重要挑战，包括基础挑战和技术挑战。该研讨会将于2010年8月2日至4日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的威斯汀阿灵顿门户酒店举行。预计该研讨会将为NSF和科学界确定技术挑战和研究机会。研讨会的会议记录和建议清单将提供给研讨会的所有参与者、国家科学基金会、其他政府科学家、工业界和决策者。研讨会的智力价值在于将会促进激烈的辩论和讨论，并确定富有成效和引人注目的方向，即使电子设备尺寸达到纳米级极限，也能使电子学和计算向前发展。讲习班更广泛的成果是确定可能最适合本科和研究生课程的跨学科方向和有关的教育方法。

The NSF Workshop on "Interdisciplinary Challenges beyond the Scaling Limits of Moore's Law" is organized to explore the scientific issues and technological challenges beyond the scaling limits of Moore's Law with the goal of positioning the U.S. at the forefront of Communications and Computation technologies beyond the physical and conceptual limits of current systems. In accordance with the Moore's Law empirical observation, until recently device integration levels have continued to expand exponentially, and as a result, so has computation power. However, it is now well accepted that current approaches will reach their limits in next 10 years due to a confluence of both fundamental and practical limitations. Continuing evolution of electronics beyond the scaling limits of Moore's Law is likely to require a broader re-thinking, ranging from novel materials and devices, to circuit and system architectures so that new insights can be employed in computation and knowledge processing technologies. Current technologies already provide examples of energy-efficient systems which have evolved for diverse tasks such as embedded approaches in cell phones or specialized task-specific technologies such as in e-readers. The workshop will explore the overcoming of current barriers by fostering interdisciplinary debate and dialog. The workshop will bring together experts from academia, government, and industry in the fields of life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, materials science, engineering, and computer science to discuss new computational devices and new approaches to computation as well as ways to extend progress in current devices and systems. Some broad questions to be addressed will include the future of terascale devices, strategies to minimize energy utilization, novel materials and devices to overcome the voltage-scaling limitation of existing device technology, and new approaches to reliability based on self-healing and programming.Promising directions are expected to include interdisciplinary merging of architectures, algorithms, materials and devices, and signaling approaches for specific applications. The premise is that a coherent engineering where synergistic approaches draw on diverse insights from electrosciences, materials sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and computer science, will be necessary. An objective of the workshop is to identify promising insights and directions that project solutions for electronics in the decade of the 2020's.Invited speakers will highlight insights and challenges from their disciplinary perspectives and will attempt to answer questions posed to them beforehand. The breakout sessions will focus on defining the most important topics for future research. The discussion will also bring out opportunities and necessary changes in education as the complexity of large scale integrated electronics demands greater interdisciplinary knowledge. The workshop will include presentations by leading practitioners in the fields of semiconductor devices and computer architectures, and by scientists working in the areas of physics, chemistry, mathematics, materials science, molecular electronics and nanoscale systems. The report of this workshop will detail important challenges, fundamental and technological, that are likely to be at the forefront of this field for many years to come. The workshop will be held at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, Arlington, Virginia on August 2-4, 2010. It is expected that the workshop will identify the technological challenges and research opportunities for NSF and the scientific community. The proceedings of the workshop and the list of recommendations will be made available to all participants of the workshop, NSF, other government scientists, industry and policymakers. The intellectual merit of the workshop is in the vigorous debate and discussion that will be fostered and the identification of fruitful and compelling directions that allow electronics and computation to advance even as electronic device dimensions reach their nanoscale limits. The broader outcome of the workshop is in the identification of the interdisciplinary directions and the related educational approaches that are likely to be most suitable in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.