Moore's Law is a techno-economic model that has enabled the information technology
industry to double the performance and functionality of digital electronics roughly every 2 …

Deep learning has become ubiquitous, touching daily lives across the globe. Today,
traditional computer architectures are stressed to their limits in efficiently executing the …

The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

Quantum computing (QC) is a new paradigm offering the potential of exponential speedups
over classical computing for certain computational problems. Each additional qubit doubles …

We present an all-optical neuron that utilizes a logistic sigmoid activation function, using a
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) input & weighting scheme. The activation function …

Integrated circuits (ICs) and optoelectronic chips are the foundation stones of the modern
information society. The IC industry has been driven by the so-called “Moore's law” in the …

Beyond energy, the growing number of defects in physical substrates is becoming another
major constraint that affects the design of computing devices and systems. As the underlying …

Nanotechnology is the aptitude to perceive, measure, operate, and build materials at the
nanometer scale, the size of atoms and molecules. Nanotechnology, is involved in many …

The end of Moore's law may be the best thing that has happened in computing since the
beginning of Moore's law. Confronting the end of an epoch should enable a new era of …

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