Workshop: A Proposal for Memristor and Memristive Devices To be Held in San Joaquin Valley at Merced, California in the Winter of 2009

我们建议在2009年冬季或2010年春季举办一次研讨会，作为2008年11月由NSF赞助的首届忆阻器和记忆系统研讨会的续篇，讨论科学原理、器件和电路的实验结果，以及相关主题的潜在探索，特别是在新系统应用方面。为了在这一点上建立势头，NSF的持续赞助是必要的，通过后续研讨会，将把更多的执业工程师、研究生和本科生、学者和企业家聚集在一起，随后将导致启动一个自负盈亏的年度会议。需要持续的努力来教育主流的CMOS社区了解这一有趣的新技术，从而建立一个关键规模的研究社区，以便能够在不同的领域取得快速进步，从而使这种与CMOS兼容的新技术能够进入商业市场。第二次讲习班势在必行，以期增进对这一新技术商业化道路上的公开问题和重大挑战的理解和计划。

We propose to hold a workshop in winter 2009 or spring 2010, as a sequel to the inaugural symposium on memristor and memristive systems held in November 2008 under NSF sponsorship, to discuss scientific principles, experimental findings for both devices and circuits, and potential exploration of related topics, especially on novel systems applications. Continued NSF sponsorship is necessary to build the momentum at this point through a follow-up workshop that will bring together larger community of practicing engineers, graduate and undergraduate students, academics and entrepreneurs that will subsequently lead to starting a self-supported annual conference. Sustained effort is necessary to educate the mainstream CMOS community about this intriguing new technology and thereby build a critical-size research community so that rapid advancements can be made in different frontiers, thereby enabling this CMOS-compatible new technology to make commercial market inroads. The second workshop is imperative with a view to developing understanding of and plans to solve the open problems and grand challenges that beset on the way of commercialization of this new technology.