From bhanu@seas.smu.edu Fri Apr 8 18:11:11 EDT 1994 Article: 21473 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:21473 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!seas.smu.edu!bhanu From: bhanu@seas.smu.edu (Bhanu Kapoor) Subject: Call For Papers: PhysComp '94 Message-ID: <1994Apr3.041803.980@seas.smu.edu> Sender: news@seas.smu.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rapid_f.seas.smu.edu Organization: SMU - School of Engineering & Applied Science - Dallas Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 04:18:03 GMT Lines: 112 Call for Papers Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp `94, This Decade and Beyond November 17 - 20, 1994, Dallas, Texas Sponsored by Dallas IEEE Computer Society Sponsored by ONR/ARPA Corporate Sponsor: Texas Instruments Incorporated The Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp `94 will seek to explore the intimate relationship emerging between Modern Physics and Computation Theory. One commonly held view is that information laws are dependent on the laws of physics. Another emerging view is that the universe would not work without information primitives underlying physical laws. Both of these views conclude that physics and information/computation are linked together at a very fundamental level. Understanding the convergence of computation and physics will lead to a better understanding of using physical mechanisms as computing engines, and also lead to a better understanding of how the universe is organized. This field will become increasingly important to the computing industry as the post-shrink era approaches and the energy consumption, complexity, and computational horsepower requirements continue to exceed the computing engines we are able to design or build. This workshop will emphasize solutions that are applicable during this decade as well as longer term ideas. The first general conference on the Physics of Computation was held in 1981 at MIT and Richard Feynman was the keynote speaker. The papers from that conference were published in the 1982 International Journal for Theoretical Physics, Vol 21, April, June, and December issues. The Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp `92, held in Dallas in October 2-4, 1992, was a long awaited reawakening of the field and 100 people attended from 7 countries. The Keynote speaker for PhysComp '92 was Rolf Landauer of IBM, a pioneer in the field. Proceedings of the PhysComp `92 are available thru IEEE Computer Society Press and an electronic mailing list has been established (for subscription information send email to physics.computation-request@hc.ti.com). PhysComp `94 has been extended an additional day over PhysComp `92 to allow invited panel sessions speakers and submitted papers that discuss architectures for nano-electronic systems. Papers are requested on other physics and computing topics such as limits of computing, practical reversible computers, nano-electronics, energetics of computing, Cellular Automata, analog computing, quantum cryptography, optical computing, molecular computing, quantum logic, etc. Generally we are interested in papers that unify Computation (Algorithms, Architecture, Information Theory, Automatic Learning, Tele/Communication Theory, Simulation, etc) with Physics (Discrete models, Entropy, Complexity, Quantum Theory, Thermodynamics, Energy/mass, Relativity, Gravity, etc). The goal of this workshop is to establish stronger links between participants from various backgrounds as well as to educate professionals interested in these topics. The keynote speaker for PhysComp '94 will be Professor Carver Mead of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. His current focus and teachings are in the area of VLSI design, ultra-concurrent systems, physics of computation, and the construction of silicon models of neural systems. SUBMISSION: Please surface mail five copies of your preliminary paper (10 pages maximum) or 5 page extended abstract by Monday May 23, 1994 to: Wolfgang Porod PhysComp `94 Program Co-chairman Dept. Electrical Engineering email: porod@graz.ee.nd.edu University of Notre Dame Phone: 219/631-6376 Notre Dame, IN 46556 FAX: 219/631-4393 Notification of acceptance will be mailed by Friday July 1, 1994. The technical committee will group submissions into relevant topics, and select papers and panel members. Papers will be accepted for long talks and short talks. Panel sessions and poster sessions may also be organized based on papers submitted. The proceedings will be prepared thru IEEE Computer Society Press in time to be distributed at the workshop. REGISTRATION: A block of rooms is being reserved and all meetings will be held at the Harvey Hotel in Addison, TX. Full registration details will be mailed at a later date. The room rate will be $59 single/$69 double. The workshop fee will be $200, payment by US check or credit card. Transportation to the hotel: Super-shuttle or Taxi. Free hotel shuttles for transportation in Addison. SCHEDULE: Monday May 23: Preliminary version of papers due at Notre Dame for 1994 Friday July 1: Notification of acceptance for papers mailed Friday July 8: Author Kits mailed to accepted authors Tuesday Sept 6: Final papers due at IEEE press, registration starts Monday Oct 17: Early registration fee of $180 cutoff date Wednesday Nov 16: Out of town arrival, registration, & reception Thursday Nov 17 thru Sunday Nov 20 (noon): PhysComp `94 PHYSCOMP `94 COMMITTEE: GENERAL CHAIRMAN: Douglas J. Matzke, Texas Instruments for more information (214) 995-0787 or matzke@hc.ti.com STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: John S. Denker, AT&T PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRMAN: Wolfgang Porod, University of Notre Dame PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRMAN: Gary Frazier, Texas Instruments ON SITE REGISTRATION: Sajal Das, University of North Texas, Jose Manuel Fernandez, University of Toronto William R. Frensley, University of Texas at Dallas Andrew Ilachinski, Center for Naval Analysis Lester Ingber, Lester Ingber Research Irvin R. Jackson, Motorola ADVERTISING: Bhanu Kapoor, Texas Instruments, Christopher Kolb, Caltech David P. Larson, University of Texas at Dallas Salvatore Morgera, McGill University DALLAS IEEE REPRESENTATIVE: Gene Meyer, Texas Instruments Shamim Naqvi, Bellcore Braunstein Samuel, Weizmann Institute of Science Sharad Saxena, Texas Instruments Joe Touch, Information Sciences Institute Paul Vitanyi, CWI Ruixi Yuan, NEC USA Inc. 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