Research on electronic devices and materials is currently driven by both the slowing down
of transistor scaling and the exponential growth of computing needs, which make present …

There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Deep learning's recent history has been one of achievement: from triumphing over humans
in the game of Go to world-leading performance in image classification, voice recognition …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

Aligned semiconducting carbon nanotubes are a potential alternative to silicon in the
creation of scaled field-effect transistors (FETs) due to their easy miniaturization and high …

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FEBRUARY 2019 | VOL. 62 | NO. 2 engineers, including ACM AM Turing Award laureate Fred …

With the waning of Moore's law, optimizing program performance has become a major focus
of software research. However, high-level optimizations such as API and algorithm changes …

Data centers are a critical component of information technology (IT), providing an
environment for running computer equipment. Reliance on data centers for everyday …

Over the past several years, new machine learning accelerators were being announced and
released every month for a variety of applications from speech recognition, video object …

Computing, since its inception, has been processor-centric, with memory separated from
compute. Inspired by the organic brain and optimized for inorganic silicon, NorthPole is a …