WORKSHOP: Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School 2004

CBSSS（Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School）计划的智力价值在于促进这种研究人员的发展。CBSSS计划将汇集一系列独特的教学和新颖的研究材料，这些材料代表了在这一领域工作所需的基本背景知识以及这一领域所面临的基本挑战。40-50名学生，大部分是本科生，将获得全额资助，在加州理工学院度过4周，听取量子计算，生物分子计算和分子电子学等新兴领域的领导者的讲座。学生们还将听取与这些研究领域直接相关的核心计算机科学和信息理论的讲座。学生们将在这个领域的项目小组工作，并能够转向讲师和更广泛的加州理工学院物理信息社区的项目指导。激发学生对这些新领域的兴趣，并为他们提供正确开始这些研究道路所需的智力工具和指针，从而产生更广泛的影响。我们希望大多数学生都在各自的学科中接受过教育。 然而，目前很少有本科生接触到这些新的基质，更不用说交叉教育去思考它们了。很少有人会有足够的机会考虑在这个领域进行研究生研究，更不用说有信心为研究生学习写一份可信的目的陈述了。完成该课程的学生应该准备写这样一份目的声明，并参与这一领域的研究。作为进一步的好处，该课程的材料将在网络上发布，为其他学生和希望在自己的大学开发这一领域课程的教育工作者提供一个中心资源。CBSSS也将对参与的教师产生影响，他们有独特的机会与每个人互动。其他和分享想法。该计划将帮助他们更好地了解常见问题和可能的解决方案，并确定合作机会。

The intellectual merit of the CBSSS(Computing Beyond Silicon Summer School) program lies in fostering the development of this kind of researcher. The CBSSS program will bring together a unique collection of pedagogical and novel research materials representing the fundamental background knowledge necessary to work in this area and the fundamental challenges this area presents. 40-50 students, mostly undergraduates, will be fully funded to spend 4 weeks at Caltech hearing lectures from leaders in the emerging fields of quantum computation, biomolecular computation, and molecular electronics. Students will also hearlectures on core computer science and information theory which is directly relevant to these areasof research. The students will work in small teams on projects in this area and be able to turn to thelecturers and the broader Caltech physics of information community for project guidance. The broader impact of exciting students about these new areas and giving them the intellectual tools and pointers they need to properly get started into these research paths. We expect most students have been educated in their respective disciplines. However, few undergraduates would currently beexposed to these novel substrates, much less cross-educated to think about them. Very few wouldhave adequate exposure to contemplate graduate research in this area, much less the confidence towrite a credible statement-of-purpose for graduate study. Students completing this program shouldbe prepared to write such a Statement of Purpose and get involved with research in this area.As a further benefit, materials for the program will be posted on the web, providing a central resourcefor other students and for educators who wish to develop courses in this area at their own university.CBSSS will also have an impact on the participating faculty who have a unique opportunity tointeract with each other and share ideas. The program will help them better see common problemsand possible solutions and identify collaboration opportunities.