Mission
The mission of the Institute for the Future of Computing (IFComputing) is to explore and harness new computing paradigms, architectures, and physical fabrics that will be significantly more functional, secure, and sustainable compared to today’s computing solutions in order to enable challenging new applications in information processing, bioinformatics, medicine, and artificial intelligence while investigating the impacts of these technologies on the environment, people and the society as a whole.
Drivers
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- End of Moore’s law – need to ensure US leadership in nanoelectronics and AI
- Security and Privacy concerns, trusted computing
- Energy efficiency and sustainability
- Distributed computing and connectivity requirements (low latency compute on the edge)
- Trained workforce
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Opportunities
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- Emerging revolutionary new devices for both computing and storage: 2D material, nano-photonics, SFT, TFET, MRAM, magnetic nanowires, ferroelectric-based devices, memristive devices, etc.
- Multitude of beyond-CMOS circuit fabrics: in-memory computing, approximate computing, neuromorphic computing, cryogenic superconductive electronics, etc.
- New ultra-custom architectures suited to the target application needs: systolic arrays and vector processors, ultra-low-power embedded systems, domain-specific architectures
- Emerging class of applications: homomorphic computing, precision medicine, AI on the edge
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