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

NSF研讨会“超越摩尔定律缩放极限的跨学科挑战”旨在探索超越摩尔定律缩放极限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最前沿，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，器件集成度水平一直在以指数方式扩展，结果，计算能力也在以指数方式扩展。然而，人们现在普遍认为，由于基本和实际的限制，目前的办法将在今后10年内达到极限。 电子学的持续发展超越了摩尔定律的尺度限制，这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节能系统的例子，这些系统已经为各种任务而发展，例如手机中的嵌入式方法或电子阅读器中的专门任务技术。研讨会将探讨通过促进跨学科辩论和对话来克服当前的障碍。 研讨会将汇集来自学术界、政府和工业界的生命科学、化学、物理、数学、材料科学、工程和计算机科学领域的专家，讨论新的计算设备和新的计算方法，以及如何扩展当前设备和系统的进展。一些广泛的问题将被解决，包括未来的万亿器件，战略，以尽量减少能源的利用，新材料和设备，以克服现有的设备技术的电压缩放限制，以及新的方法，以可靠性的基础上自我愈合和programming.Promising的方向预计将包括跨学科的融合架构，算法，材料和设备，和信号的方法，为特定的应用。前提是，一个连贯的工程，其中协同方法借鉴了电子科学，材料科学，物理科学，数学和计算机科学的不同见解，将是必要的。研讨会的目的是确定有前途的见解和方向，项目解决方案的电子在2020年代的十年。特邀演讲者将突出的见解和挑战，从他们的学科角度，并将尝试回答问题提出了他们事先。分组会议将重点确定未来研究的最重要主题。讨论还将带来教育的机会和必要的变化，因为大规模集成电子的复杂性需要更多的跨学科知识。 研讨会将包括半导体器件和计算机架构领域的主要从业人员以及物理、化学、数学、材料科学、分子电子学和纳米级系统领域的科学家的演讲。 本次研讨会的报告将详细介绍在今后许多年里可能成为这一领域前沿的重要挑战，包括基本挑战和技术挑战。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网关酒店举行。 预计研讨会将为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与会者、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促进激烈的辩论和讨论，并确定富有成效和令人信服的方向，使电子和计算能够在电子设备尺寸达到纳米级极限的情况下向前发展。讲习班的更广泛的成果是在确定跨学科的方向和相关的教育方法，可能是最适合在本科和研究生课程。

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.