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SUMMARY:IEM Seminar Series: The Tangled Tree of Technology
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DESCRIPTION:Marco Casale-Rossi\, OOP (Office of the President)\, Synopsys\
 , Inc.\nAbstract: Charles Darwin’s “tree of life” is a model used to
  represent the “vertical evolution”: in Darwin’s “tree of life”\
 , each new generation inherits the parental traits\, the strongest\, most 
 favorable traits sprout\, while the weakest become extinct.\nThere is a 
 “tree of technology” too. In truth\, there are many\; among the most n
 otable are CMOS\, and xPU. In these “trees of technology”\, each new g
 eneration inherits the parental traits\, unchanged\, unchallenged\, just s
 maller (CMOS) or bigger (xPU)\, an artificial Galapagos Islands ecosystem.
 \nDarwin’s “tree of life” has been challenged by UIUC Prof. Carl Woe
 se\, an “evolutionary biologist”\, who proposed a more “tangled tree
  of life”\, in which gene transfer\, and therefore evolution happens bot
 h vertically (VGT)\, slowly\, generation after generation of one organism\
 , and horizontally (HGT)\, rapidly\, across [even radically] different org
 anisms. Over the last four billion years\, there have been several bursts 
 of horizontal evolution\, among which the “Cambrian explosion”\, when 
 practically all major phyla started appearing in the fossil record.\nIn th
 is talk\, I propose that we are at the dawn of a technological “Cambrian
  explosion”\; that we must challenge the established “trees of technol
 ogy”\; that only the entanglement of many [even radically] different “
 trees of technology” will allow us to leapfrog the fundamental\, physica
 l limits that CMOS and xPU\, are hitting against.\nBio: Marco Casale-Rossi
  has joined Synopsys in 2005\, after 20 years at STMicroelectronics Centr
 al R&D. Over the last 15+ years\, Marco has contributed building Synop
 sys vision of the design and technology roadmap\, most recently as a memb
 er of the Office of the President.
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