Event Details

Abstract: Forced by the looming end of Moore’s Law, emergence of challenging new applications, and important societal considerations such as sustainability and privacy, conventional computing, which is based on CMOS technology and von Neumann architectures, is entering a new era where revolutionary new computing technologies and architectures are being explored in order to develop computing solutions that can deliver higher performance while being more functional, secure, and sustainable compared to today’s computing solutions. To address this fundamentally different socio-technical landscape and to guide the future of computing, we have established an interdisciplinary Institute for the Future of Computing at USC, which will be the focus of my talk. After reviewing the current technology environment and requirements of emerging applications, I will provide an overview of some of the beyond-CMOS computing technologies that are being pursued by different groups at USC and nationwide. I will then describe some of my own work on ultra-custom computing and superconductor-based circuits.  I will conclude my talk with a perspective on possible paths to our computing future.

Hosts: Matt French, Steve Crago, J. P. Walters, and John Wroclawski. Contact Matt French <[email protected]> for more information.

Zoom: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91704970402 (Meeting ID: 917 0497 0402)

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Speaker Bio

Massoud Pedram is the Charles Lee Powell professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. His research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, low power electronics, energy storage systems, machine learning, quantum computing, and superconductive electronics. He has authored four books and more than 800 archival and conference papers. Dr. Pedram received the 2015 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to modeling and design of low power VLSI circuits and systems, and energy efficient computing and the 2017 USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award. He also received the Third Most Cited Author Award at the 50th anniversary of the Design Automation Conf., Jun. 2013. Dr. Pedram is an IEEE Fellow.