IEEE Rebooting Computing

Last updated
IEEE Rebooting Computing Task Force
FoundedDecember 2012 [1]
Type Professional Organization
Focus Computing
Location
OriginsGlobal initiative launched by IEEE
Area served
Worldwide
MethodCommunications, Conferences, Digital Media, Education, Industry standards, Marketing, Publications, Web Portal
Key people
Elie Track, Co-Chair [1]
Tom Conte, Co-Chair [1]
Erik DeBenedictis, Co-Chair
Bruce Kraemer, Co-Chair
Dejan Milojicic, Co-Chair
Paolo Gargini, Chair, IRDS [2]
Website rebootingcomputing.ieee.org

The Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC), housed within IEEE Computer Society, is the new home for the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative. Founded in 2013 by the IEEE Future Directions Committee, Rebooting Computing has provided an international, interdisciplinary environment where experts from a wide variety of computer-related fields can come together to explore novel approaches to future computing. IEEE Rebooting Computing began as a global initiative launched by IEEE that proposes to rethink the concept of computing through a holistic look at all aspects of computing, from the device itself to the user interface. [3] As part of its work, IEEE Rebooting Computing provides access to various resources like conferences and educational events, feature and scholarly articles, reports, [4] and videos.

Contents

History

IEEE Future Directions Committee established an "IEEE Rebooting Computing" working group in late 2012 with the broad vision of "rebooting" the entire field of computer technology. [5] The activities of this working group are carried out by the IEEE Rebooting Computing Committee, a team of volunteers from ten participating IEEE Societies and Councils, in conjunction with IEEE Future Directions staff members. [3]

The term "rebooting computing" was coined by IEEE Life Fellow, Peter Denning, [6] as part of an early U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored project focused on revamping computer education. [7]

In order to achieve its goal of rebooting computing, IEEE Rebooting Computing hosted four invitation-only summits between 2013 and 2015 in Washington, D.C., and Santa Cruz, California. [8] These summits addressed the future of computing from a holistic point of view. [9]

In 2014, IEEE Rebooting Computing adopted its logo, consisting of an exploding infinity symbol. The logo is intended to suggest the absence of limits for future computing technology.

IEEE Rebooting Computing announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) in March 2015. [10] This led in May 2016 to the formation of the IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS), [11] which incorporated the previous mission of ITRS in semiconductor device fabrication and expanded it to encompass alternative technologies, computer architectures, and system applications.

In September 2015, IEEE Rebooting Computing announced support for the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). [12] Established under Executive Order 13072 issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in July 2015, the NSCI calls for a coordinated Federal strategy in high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment. [13]

In October 2015, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), an interagency program of the U.S. government, announced a "Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge in Future Computing". [14] A key document cited by NNI as part of this grand challenge is a white paper, co-sponsored by IEEE Rebooting Computing and ITRS, entitled Sensible Machines. [15]

In 2017, the IEEE New Initiatives Committee renewed the mandate of the Rebooting Computing Initiative, with five major activities: the International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC), IRDS, the Industry Summit on the Future of Computing, the Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC), and a Workshop on the Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. [16]   In 2018, a new activity was added to promote the development of quantum computing. [17]

Purpose

The Three Pillars of Computing IEEE Rebooting Computing Three Pillars.png
The Three Pillars of Computing

IEEE Rebooting Computing Task Force aims to help return the computing industry to exponential computer-performance scaling, [18] which stalled in 2005 due to energy inefficiencies of CMOS-based classical computers. [19] Historically, computer processing power doubled every 18 months due to increasing densities of transistors per semiconductor unit. To alleviate challenges brought on by limitations in computer architectures and sustain regular processing performance gains, there was a move toward instruction-level parallelism and superscalar microprocessors. However, with rising costs associated with greater power consumption brought on by this approach signaling the end of Moore's Law, [20] IEEE introduced the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative.

Incorporating three fundamental pillars of rebooting computing, including energy efficiency, security, and Human Computer Interface (HCI), the initiative seeks to overcome setbacks and challenges relating to the deceleration of computational power and capacity. In turn, these efforts may also be applied in other technology sectors, such as the Internet of Things. [21]

Current work

With the goal of identifying new directions in computing and aiding industry in returning to historical exponential scaling of computer performance, [22] IEEE Rebooting Computing encompasses a variety of activities, products, and services. Among these efforts are an online web portal, technical community, publications, conferences, and events. IEEE Rebooting Computing also maintains a collaborative partnership with IRDS, as well as responding to and participating in national and international initiatives, the NSCI [12] and the "Nanotechnology Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing". [14]

IEEE Rebooting Computing Web Portal

The web portal is the primary online home for IEEE Rebooting Computing. The website provides relevant news, information, and resources to users, such as articles authored by IEEE experts and third-party publications. It also includes access to a list of both IEEE-sponsored and general industry conferences and events, videos, and historical data from IEEE Rebooting Computing's past summits. [23]

IEEE Rebooting Computing Podcasts

The web portal also hosts the IEEE Rebooting Computing Podcast, [24] which is a collection of interviews with leaders in the field, updated monthly.  This collection is also hosted on the video website IEEE.tv. [25]

IEEE Rebooting Computing Technical Community

IEEE Technical Communities are virtual communities for practitioners, subject matter experts, researchers, and other technology professionals interested in specific topic areas. Open to any interested individual, the IEEE Computer Society Rebooting Computing Technical Community serves as a venue for the distribution and dissemination of news, announcements, and other information from those societies and councils taking part in the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative. An email newsletter is distributed monthly to several thousand community members, and includes free access to specially selected recent articles of interest from the IEEE Xplore library of journals and conference proceedings. IEEE membership is not required to become a member of the IEEE Rebooting Computing Technical Community. [26]

IEEE Rebooting Computing conferences and events

IEEE Rebooting Computing sponsors, co-sponsors, and takes part in a variety of technology conferences and events worldwide. Conference and event programming is designed to stimulate discussion of existing and emerging technologies, including challenges, benefits, and opportunities. Typically lasting anywhere from a single day to a week or more, conference and event programming generally encompasses keynote addresses, panel discussions, paper presentations, poster sessions, tutorials, and workshops in one or more tracks. [27]

IEEE Rebooting Computing Summits

During its first several years, the initiative's flagship event series was its Rebooting Computing Summits. The inaugural IEEE Rebooting Computing Summit was held in December 2013 in Washington, D.C. [28] The event drew business and industry, government, and academic representatives both from the U.S. and internationally for a variety of plenary lectures and brainstorming sessions. [6]

Based on the first event, a second IEEE Rebooting Computing Summit was held in May 2014 in Santa Cruz, California. [29] Following a similar format to the first summit, a group of invited business and trade, academia, and government experts took part in discussing neuromorphic engineering, approximate computing, and adiabatic / reversible computing. [30]

With the first two summits serving as the event's basis, IEEE Rebooting Computing held a third summit in October 2014, in Scotts Valley, California. [31] The theme for the third summit was "Rethinking Structures of Computation", and focused on the topics of parallel computing, security, approximation, and Human-Computer Interaction. As part of the event, attendees took part in plenary talks, a poster session, and heard details of a new government initiative in future computing research. [32]

A fourth IEEE Rebooting Computing Summit (RCS4), with a theme of "Roadmapping the Future of Computing: Discovering How We May Compute" was held in December 2015, in Washington D.C. [33] The event included plenary talks and breakout groups in the three tracks of "Probabilistic/Approximate Computing", "Neuromorphic Computing", and "Beyond CMOS/3D Computing", with a fourth track on "Superconducting Computing". The summit also hosted speakers from other programs promoting future computing, both governmental and industrial, including DARPA, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), ITRS, NSCI, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Semiconductor Research Corporation. [34]

IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing

A larger, open conference, the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2016), was held in October 2016, in San Diego, California. [35] The goal of ICRC 2016 was to discover and foster novel methodologies to reinvent computing technology, including new materials and physics, devices and circuits, system and network architectures, and algorithms and software. Proceedings of the event have been published by IEEE, [36] and videos of many of the presentations are available online. [37] The second conference in this series, ICRC 2017, [38] was held in November 2017 in Washington, DC, as part of IEEE Rebooting Computing Week. [39] A third conference in this series, ICRC 2018, was held in Washington, DC in November 2018. [40]   ICRC 2019 is being planned for November 2019, tentatively in the San Francisco Bay area. [41]

IEEE Industry Summit on the Future of Computing

In November 2017, IEEE Rebooting Computing also sponsored a distinct one-day summit, following ICRC, which addressed similar topics but with a somewhat different focus and audience. [42] This Industry Summit featured plenary presentations by industry, government, and academic leaders on what we can expect for new computer technologies in coming decades. For example, this featured a new public announcement from IBM Research on a breakthrough in quantum computing technology. [43] Other topics of interest included artificial intelligence, machine learning, memory-driven computing, and heterogeneous computing. A second Industry Summit was held in 2018, and plans are to continue this again in November 2019. [44]

Low-Power Image Recognition Challenges

In June 2015, IEEE Rebooting Computing held the first-ever Low-Power Image Recognition Competition (LPIRC). [45] Held as a one-day workshop as during the 2015 Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, California, the competition aimed to assess the state of low-power approaches to object detection in images. [46] The competition fielded competitors from four different countries and included teams from Carnegie Mellon, Rice University, and Tsinghua University and Huawei.

Before the competition, training data was released for detection from the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC). Source code of the referee system was released to the public in March 2015. For the competition, an intranet was established for the contestants to retrieve provided image files from and return answers to the competition's referee system. Teams were given 10 minutes to process images, which were ranked by detection accuracy and energy usage. [47]

A second LPIRC was held during the June 2016 Design Automation Conference in Austin, Texas. [48] A third LPIRC [49] was held in July 2017 as part of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) [50] in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2018, two LPIRC competitions were held, one at CVPR in Salt Lake City, Utah in June, and a second online competition in November. [51] These included major new sponsors Google and Facebook. LPIRC 2019 is being planned.

An overview of the first three years of LPIRC was presented at the 2018 IEEE Conference on Design Automation and Test in Europe. [52]

IEEE Workshop on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

In October 2017, a three-day IEEE Confluence Event was held, bringing together leaders in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). [53]   This workshop was co-chaired by Dr. Dejan Milojicic, co-chair of Rebooting Computing.  The aim was to develop a strategy to coordinate efforts to apply AI/ML to improve cybersecurity worldwide.  Following this workshop, an IEEE Trend Paper was published [54] entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applied to Cybersecurity”, with recommendations for new standards and regulations for industry and government. A second workshop was held in November 2018, with plans to continue this effort in the future.

IEEE Quantum Computing Summit

With the growing interest and technological developments in quantum computing, IEEE determined in 2018 to expand its role in establishing metrics and benchmarks in this nascent field. [17]   This effort has been led by Dr. Erik DeBenedictis, one of the co-chairs of Rebooting Computing.  An invitation-only Summit was held in August 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia, with leaders from industry, academia, and industry, and led to a White Paper on the subject. [55]

IEEE Rebooting Computing Week

Starting in 2017, “Rebooting Computing Week” [39] was created to have a common location for annual conferences and workshops associated with Rebooting Computing.  In 2017 and 2018, this was held in November in the Washington, DC area. Events in 2018 included ICRC, the Industry Summit, IRDS Workshop, the Cybersecurity Workshop, and the Quantum Computing Workshop.  Plans for 2019 are to have Rebooting Computing Week in the San Francisco Bay area, during November.

Publications

As part of the initiative's work, IEEE Rebooting Computing members and societies regularly publish papers, manuscripts, journals and magazines, and other documents. [56] Among the various IEEE publications IEEE Rebooting Computing contributes to or features articles from on its web portal are Computer ; [18] IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems; [57] IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits; [58] IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine; [59] IEEE Spectrum ; [60] and Proceedings of the IEEE . [61]

In December 2015, Computer published a special issue on rebooting computing, with members of the IEEE Rebooting Committee as guest editors and contributors. [62] In November 2016, the Italian online magazine Mondo Digitale published an article entitled "Rebooting Computing: Developing a Roadmap for the Future of the Computer Industry." [63] In March 2017, Computing in Science and Engineering published a special issue on "The End of Moore's Law", [64] addressing alternative approaches to maintaining exponential growth in performance, even as classic device scaling may be ending.

Since 2016, Computer has published a series of columns under the heading “Rebooting Computing”, coordinated by RC co-chair Dr. Erik DeBenedictis.  Recent titles have included:

IEEE Rebooting Computing also contributes to a variety of trade publications and news outlets, such as EE Times [20] and Scientific Computing. [9]

Participating IEEE societies

IEEE Rebooting Computing began as a multi-society participation from a cross-section of IEEE societies with interest in numerous aspects of computing, including circuits and systems design; architectures; design automation; magnetics; nanotechnology; reliability; and superconductors. [3]

IEEE Societies and Councils taking part in the IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative:

Collaboration with ITRS and IRDS

IEEE Rebooting Computing has established a collaborative relationship with the ITRS, starting with an exchange of information in 2014. [4] Following the signing of a formal collaboration agreement, [10] IEEE Rebooting Computing and ITRS arranged and held joint international workshops in 2015 with the objective of identifying computer performance scaling challenges and establishing a roadmap to successfully restart computer performance scaling. [4] IEEE Rebooting Computing further collaborated with ITRS on a new effort, known as ITRS 2.0, that extends beyond traditional Moore's Law scaling of chips to include roadmaps covering systems and applications. [69]

ITRS Chairman Paolo Gargini said, "The ITRS shares IEEE Rebooting Computing's mission to restore computing to its historic exponential performance scaling trends so our society and future societies can benefit. Our agreement will ensure we help fundamentally shift the computer industry's focus, resources, time and attention on to new possibilities for computational performance." [70]

On May 4, 2016, IEEE announced the launch of the "International Roadmap for Devices and Systems" (IRDS), operating as part of the IEEE Standards Association's (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections program. IRDS is sponsored by IEEE Rebooting Computing in consultation with the IEEE Computer Society and ITRS. [71] IRDS will provide guidance on future trends in computer systems, architectures, software, chips, and other components across the entire computer industry, and is modeled on ITRS roadmaps that have previously guided the semiconductor industry during the Moore's Law era. The first IRDS Roadmap was released in the first quarter of 2018 on the IRDS Web Portal. [72]

Influence and impact

Through its summits and conferences, other educational efforts, [27] and engagement with government, IEEE Rebooting Computing initiative has begun to influence both the technology industry and national policy efforts. The initiative is releasing the IRDS Roadmap of Future Computing, which includes development of performance benchmarks and standards for new classes of computer systems. [4]

Addressing roadblocks in future high-performance computing, also known as exascale computing, is a key area of focus for IEEE Rebooting Computing. The initiative has been actively pursuing and aiding the industry in making progress toward possible solutions such as specialized chip architectures, millivolt switches, and 3D integrated circuits, as noted by Dr. Erik DeBenedictis of Sandia National Laboratories in "Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing". [73]

In February 2015, IEEE Rebooting Computing Senior Program Director Bichlien Hoang and co-author Sin-Kuen Hawkins received a "Best Presentation Award" for their paper, "How Will Rebooting Computing Help IoT". Presented at the 18th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN 2015) in Paris, France, the paper described IEEE Rebooting Computing's approach to addressing technical challenges generated by IoT other key computing trends. [21]

One of the key features of the future computing environment is its heterogeneous nature, combining different types of processors.  In January 2018, the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the US Department of Energy held a Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity. [74]   The invited plenary talk of the workshop was on the IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative, and was presented by Prof. Tom Conte of Georgia Tech, co-chair of the Initiative. His slides are available here. [75]

Media coverage

Media coverage of IEEE Rebooting Computing's efforts has increased. In May 2016, a New York Times feature article on the technological and economic implications of the ending of Moore's Law quoted IEEE Rebooting Co-Chair, Professor Thomas M. Conte of the Georgia Institute of Technology as saying, "The end of Moore's Law is what led to this. Just relying on the semiconductor industry is no longer enough. We have to shift and punch through some walls and break through some barriers." [76]

Among other publications reporting on IEEE Rebooting Computing activities are EE Times; [77] HPCWire; [22] IEEE Spectrum; [73] Inside HPC; [10] Scientific Computing; [9] SiliconANGLE; [78] and VR World. [79]

For example, in November 2018, Forbes Magazine published an article entitled, "IEEE Roadmaps Guide Future Memories and Applications" featuring IRDS. [80] The 2017 ICRC was featured in a Spectrum news article entitled, "Four Strange New Ways to Compute". [81]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Moore's law</span> Observation on the growth of integrated circuit capacity

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Home automation</span> Building automation for a home

Home automation or domotics is building automation for a home. A home automation system will monitor and/or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems.

The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) is a set of documents produced by a group of semiconductor industry experts. These experts are representative of the sponsoring organisations which include the Semiconductor Industry Associations of Taiwan, South Korea, the United States, Europe, Japan, and China. As of 2017, ITRS is no longer being updated. Its successor is the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edge computing</span> Distributed computing paradigm

Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. This is expected to improve response times and save bandwidth. Edge computing is an architecture rather than a specific technology, and a topology- and location-sensitive form of distributed computing.

The Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks. The Internet of things encompasses electronics, communication and computer science engineering. Internet of things has been considered a misnomer because devices do not need to be connected to the public internet, they only need to be connected to a network, and be individually addressable.

Thomas Martin Conte is the Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing; and, since 2011, also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Papermaster</span> American business executive (born 1961)

Mark D. Papermaster is an American business executive currently serving as the chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president for technology and engineering at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). On January 25, 2019 he was promoted to AMD's Executive Vice President. Papermaster previously worked at IBM from 1982 to 2008, where he was closely involved in the development of PowerPC technology and served two years as vice president of IBM's blade server division. Papermaster's decision to move from IBM to Apple Inc. in 2008 became central to a court case considering the validity and scope of an employee non-compete clause in the technology industry. He became senior vice president of devices hardware engineering at Apple in 2009, with oversight for devices such as the iPhone. In 2010 he left Apple and joined Cisco Systems as a VP of the company's silicon engineering development. Papermaster joined AMD on October 24, 2011, assuming oversight for all of AMD's technology teams and the creation of all of AMD's products, and AMD's corporate technical direction.

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is the combination of cloud computing and mobile computing to bring rich computational resources to mobile users, network operators, as well as cloud computing providers. The ultimate goal of MCC is to enable execution of rich mobile applications on a plethora of mobile devices, with a rich user experience. MCC provides business opportunities for mobile network operators as well as cloud providers. More comprehensively, MCC can be defined as "a rich mobile computing technology that leverages unified elastic resources of varied clouds and network technologies toward unrestricted functionality, storage, and mobility to serve a multitude of mobile devices anywhere, anytime through the channel of Ethernet or Internet regardless of heterogeneous environments and platforms based on the pay-as-you-use principle."

In semiconductor manufacturing, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems defines the 5 nm process as the MOSFET technology node following the 7 nm node. In 2020, Samsung and TSMC entered volume production of 5 nm chips, manufactured for companies including Apple, Marvell, Huawei and Qualcomm.

The IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is an annual micro- and nanoelectronics conference held each December that serves as a forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and related device technologies, design, manufacturing, physics, modeling and circuit-device interaction.

Many universities, vendors, institutes and government organizations are investing in cloud computing research:

Fog computing or fog networking, also known as fogging, is an architecture that uses edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of computation, storage, and communication locally and routed over the Internet backbone.

Multi-access edge computing (MEC), formerly mobile edge computing, is an ETSI-defined network architecture concept that enables cloud computing capabilities and an IT service environment at the edge of the cellular network and, more in general at the edge of any network. The basic idea behind MEC is that by running applications and performing related processing tasks closer to the cellular customer, network congestion is reduced and applications perform better. MEC technology is designed to be implemented at the cellular base stations or other edge nodes, and enables flexible and rapid deployment of new applications and services for customers. Combining elements of information technology and telecommunications networking, MEC also allows cellular operators to open their radio access network (RAN) to authorized third parties, such as application developers and content providers.

Cloud robotics is a field of robotics that attempts to invoke cloud technologies such as cloud computing, cloud storage, and other Internet technologies centered on the benefits of converged infrastructure and shared services for robotics. When connected to the cloud, robots can benefit from the powerful computation, storage, and communication resources of modern data center in the cloud, which can process and share information from various robots or agent. Humans can also delegate tasks to robots remotely through networks. Cloud computing technologies enable robot systems to be endowed with powerful capability whilst reducing costs through cloud technologies. Thus, it is possible to build lightweight, low-cost, smarter robots with an intelligent "brain" in the cloud. The "brain" consists of data center, knowledge base, task planners, deep learning, information processing, environment models, communication support, etc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beyond CMOS</span> Possible future digital logic technologies

Beyond CMOS refers to the possible future digital logic technologies beyond the CMOS scaling limits which limits device density and speeds due to heating effects.

Yehia Massoud has had significant progressive academic leadership and has been involved in forging and building effective partnerships with numerous academic and industrial institutions, and international organizations, and governmental funding agencies.

The International Roadmap for Devices and Systems, or IRDS, is a set of predictions about likely developments in electronic devices and systems. The IRDS was established in 2016 and is the successor to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. These predictions are intended to allow coordination of efforts across academia, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and national research laboratories. The IEEE specifies the goals of the roadmap as:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anantha P. Chandrakasan</span> American engineer

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the dean of the School of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is chair of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium and MIT AI Hardware Program, and co-chair the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, the MIT–Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sandip Tiwari</span> Indian-born electrical engineer and applied physicist

Sandip Tiwari is an Indian-born electrical engineer and applied physicist. He is the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. His previous roles were Director of National Nanotechnology Users Network, Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, and research scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is best known for his pioneer research in the fields of SiGe transistor and nanocrystal memory.

Shashi Shekhar is a leading scholar of spatial computing, spatial data science, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Contributions include scalable roadmap storage methods and algorithms for eco-routing, evacuation route planning, and spatial pattern mining, along with an Encyclopedia of GIS, a Spatial Databases textbook, and a spatial computing book for professionals. Currently, he is serving as a McKnight Distinguished University Professor, a Distinguished University Teaching Professor, ADC Chair and an Associate Director of the College of Science and Engineering Data Science Initiative at the University of Minnesota.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About IEEE Rebooting Computing". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  2. "International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS)". IEEE Standards Association. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "About – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Conte, T.; Gargini, P. (2015), On The Foundation Of The New Computing Industry Beyond 2020 (PDF), IEEE, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
  5. Pretz, Kathy (March 2013). "The Future of Computing – New Rebooting Computing Working Group will tackle technological challenges" (PDF). The Institute: 6–7. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Wedewer, Robin (December 2013). "IEEE Rebooting Computing Event Summary" (PDF). IEEE Rebooting Computing Event Summary. Washington, D.C.: The Wedewer Group. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  7. "The Summit". RebootingComputing.net. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  8. "RC Summits". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 DeBenedictis, Erik. Rebooting Supercomputing, Scientific Computing, April 10, 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 "IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next". Inside HPC. 2015-03-10. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  11. "About the IRDS – IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems". irds.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  12. 1 2 "IEEE Rebooting Computing Supports National Strategic Computing Initiative" (PDF) (Press release). IEEE. September 1, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
  13. Exec. Order No. 13702  (July 29, 2015; in English)  President of the United States . Retrieved on October 21, 2015.
  14. 1 2 "A Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge in Future Computing". United States National Nanotechnology Initiative. Archived from the original on Aug 23, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  15. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Responds to White House Nanotechnology Grand Challenge: "Sensible Machines" That are Smaller, Faster, and Lower Power". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  16. "List of New Initiatives and Seed Grants Funded Between 2013 and 2017". www.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  17. 1 2 "Quantum – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  18. 1 2 Conte, Tom (January 2015), "A Time of Change" (PDF), Computer , IEEE Computer Society, 48 (1): 4–6, doi:10.1109/mc.2015.4, ISSN   0018-9162
  19. "A Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing". National Nanotechnology Initiative, Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee. Retrieved October 22, 2015.
  20. 1 2 Conte, Thomas; Track, Elie (May 5, 2015), "Computing Needs a Reboot", EE Times, retrieved October 28, 2015
  21. 1 2 Hoang, Bichlien; Hawkins, Sin-Kuen (2015). "How will rebooting computing help IoT?" (PDF). 2015 18th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks. pp. 121–127. doi:10.1109/ICIN.2015.7073817. ISBN   978-1-4799-1866-9. S2CID   16671052.
  22. 1 2 "IEEE Group Seeks to Reinvent Computing as Scaling Stalls". HPCwire. 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  23. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Portal". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  24. "Podcasts – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  25. "IEEE Welcome to IEEE.tv". ieeetv.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  26. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Technical Community". IEEE. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  27. 1 2 "Conferences and Events". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  28. "First Rebooting Computing Summit (RCS 1)". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  29. "Second Rebooting Computing Summit (RCS 2)". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  30. Kadin, Alan M. (June 2014). "2nd Rebooting Computing Summit Summary Report" (PDF). RCS2 Summary Report. Santa Cruz, CA: IEEE Rebooting Computing Committee. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  31. "Third Rebooting Computing Summit (RCS 3)". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  32. Kadin, Alan M. (October 2014). "RCS3 Rebooting Computing Summit Summary Report" (PDF). Rethinking Structures of Computation Summary Report. Scotts Valley, CA: IEEE Rebooting Computing Committee. Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  33. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Summit 4 (RCS 4)" (PDF). IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  34. "Highlights of the 4th IEEE Rebooting Computing Summit (RCS4)". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  35. "Highlights of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2016) – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  36. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/7733896/proceeding
  37. "IEEE.tv Event Showcase: International Conference on Rebooting Computing ICRC 2016". ieeetv.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  38. "ICRC 2017 | IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2019)". icrc.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  39. 1 2 "Rebooting Computing Week – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  40. "ICRC 2018 | IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2019)". icrc.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  41. "IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2019)". icrc.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  42. "IEEE Industry Summit 2017 – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  43. "IBM Announces Quantum Computing Breakthrough at IEEE Rebooting Computing Event". IEEE.tv. 15 November 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  44. "IEEE Industry Summit – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  45. "2015 – LPIRC". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  46. "Introducing the IEEE Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge (LPIRC), A Presentation From Purdue University". Embedded Vision Alliance. 29 September 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  47. Lu, Yung-Hsiang; Kadin, Alan M.; Berg, Alexander C.; et al. (November 2, 2015). "Rebooting Computing and Low-Power Image Recognition Challenge" (PDF). ICCAD '15 Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design. Association for Computing Machinery: 927–932. ISBN   978-1-4673-8389-9 . Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  48. "2016 – LPIRC". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  49. "2017 – LPIRC". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  50. "CVPR2017". cvpr2017.thecvf.com. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
  51. "LPIRC – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  52. "Three years of low-power image recognition challenge: Introduction to special session – IEEE Conference Publication". March 2018: 700–703. doi:10.23919/DATE.2018.8342099. S2CID   5072266 . Retrieved 2018-12-20.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  53. "Cybersecurity Report – IEEE Rebooting Computing". rebootingcomputing.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  54. "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applied to Cybersecurity". www.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  55. "An IEEE Framework for Metrics and Benchmarks of Quantum Computing", Draft White Paper, IEEE, 2018.
  56. "Archived Articles and Videos". IEEE Rebooting Computing. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  57. Bhunia, Swarup; Hunter, Hillery C.; Mukhopadhyay, Saibal; Roy, Kaushik (March 2015). "Guest Editorial: Computing in Emerging Technologies". IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. IEEE. 5: 1–4. doi:10.1109/JETCAS.2015.2403551. ISSN   2156-3357.
  58. Nikonov, Dmitri; Young, Ian A. (April 2, 2015). "Benchmarking of Beyond-CMOS Exploratory Devices for Logic Integrated Circuits" (PDF). IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits. IEEE. 1: 3–11. Bibcode:2015IJESS...1....3N. doi: 10.1109/JXCDC.2015.2418033 . ISSN   2329-9231 . Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  59. Narendra, Siva G.; Fujino, Laura C.; Smith, Kenneth C. (Winter 2015), "Through the Looking Glass — The 2015 Edition; Trends in Solid-State Circuits from ISSCC" (PDF), IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, retrieved October 28, 2015
  60. "The Computer Chip That Never Forgets". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  61. Tiwari, Sandip (August 2015). "Memories in the Future of Information Processing" (PDF). Proceedings of the IEEE. IEEE. 103 (8): 1247–1249. doi:10.1109/jproc.2015.2448912. ISSN   0018-9219 . Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  62. Conte, Tom; DeBenedictis, Erik; Track, Elie (December 2015), "Rebooting Computing: New Strategies for Technology Scaling", Computer , IEEE Computer Society, 48 (12): 10–13, doi:10.1109/MC.2015.363 , retrieved January 21, 2015
  63. Conte, Tom (November 2016). "Rebooting Computing: Developing a Roadmap for the Future of the Computer Industry" . Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  64. Track, E.; Forbes, N.; Strawn, G. (2017-03-01). "The End of Moore's Law". Computing in Science & Engineering. 19 (2): 4–6. Bibcode:2017CSE....19b...4T. doi:10.1109/MCSE.2017.25. ISSN   1521-9615. S2CID   52799875.
  65. Debenedictis, Erik P. (14 August 2018). "A Role for IEEE in Quantum Computing – IEEE Computer, Aug. 2018". Computer. 51 (8). doi:10.1109/MC.2018.3191257. OSTI   1492856. S2CID   52014481.
  66. Conte, Thomas M.; Debenedictis, Erik P.; Mendelson, Avi; Milojicic, Dejan (27 April 2018). "Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre – IEEE Computer, April 2018". Computer. 51 (4). doi:10.1109/MC.2018.2141022. OSTI   1459993. S2CID   13756308.
  67. Debenedictis, Erik P.; Mee, Jesse K.; Frank, Michael P. (9 June 2017). "The Opportunities and Controversies of Reversible Computing – IEEE Computer, June 2017". Computer. 50 (6). doi:10.1109/MC.2017.177. OSTI   1377599. S2CID   8535043.
  68. Debenedictis, Erik P. (26 April 2017). "Computer Architecture's Changing Role in Rebooting Computing – IEEE Computer, April 2017". Computer. 50 (4). doi:10.1109/MC.2017.99. OSTI   1389591. S2CID   6076498.
  69. "ITRS Sponsors". ITRS 2.0. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  70. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Launches Initiative to Rethink the Computer" (PDF) (Press release). IEEE. March 4, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  71. "IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative, Standards Association, and Computer Society Introduce New International Roadmap for Devices and Systems to Set the Course for End-to-End Computing" (PDF) (Press release). IEEE. May 4, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  72. "NEW! 2017 Edition Reports – IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems". irds.ieee.org. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  73. 1 2 DeBenedictis, Erik (December 30, 2015). "Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing". IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  74. "Agenda | The Extreme Heterogeneity Virtual Workshop". orau.gov. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  75. "The IEEE Rebooting Computing Initiative: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead", Invited Plenary Talk by Tom Conte, Extreme Heterogeneity Workshop, Jan. 2018
  76. Markoff, John. Moore's Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor, New York Times, May 4, 2016.
  77. Merritt, Rick. Chip Roadmap Reboots Under New Management, EE Times , May 3, 2016.
  78. Wheatley, Mike. The Internet of Things: A solution looking for a problem?, SiliconANGLE, May 4, 2016.
  79. Pascal Secrets: What Makes Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 so Fast?, VR World, May 10, 2016.
  80. Coughlin, Tom. "IEEE Roadmaps Guide Future Memories & Applications". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-12-20.
  81. Moore, Samuel K. (2017-11-29). "4 Strange New Ways to Compute". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2018-12-20.