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SUMMARY:Toward zero-power ICT
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Luca Gammaitoni\, University of Perugia\nIs it possible 
 to operate a computing device with zero energy expenditure?\nThis question
 \, once considered just an academic dilemma\, has recently become strategi
 c for the  future of Information and Communication Technology. In fact\, 
 in the last forty years the semiconductor industry has been driven by its 
 ability to scale down the size of the CMOS-FET\, the building block of pre
 sent computing devices\, and to increase computing capability density up t
 o a point where the power dissipated in heat during computation has become
  a serious limitation.\nIn order to overcome such a limitation\, since 200
 4 the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative has launched a grand challenge t
 o address the fundamental limits of the physics of switches. In Europe the
  European Commission has recently funded a set of projects with the aim of
  minimizing the energy consumption of computing. In this talk we briefly a
 ddress the issue with special attention at the aspects of energy dissipati
 ons at micro and nano scales.\nBio: Luca Gammaitoni\, is Professor of Expe
 rimental Physics at the University of Perugia\, in Italy and the director 
 of the Noise in Physical Systems (NiPS) Laboratory. He is also the founder
  of Wisepower srl a university spin-off company. He obtained the PhD in Ph
 ysics from the University of Pisa in 1990. Since then he has developed a w
 ide international experience with collaborations both in Europe\, Japan an
 d the USA.\nHis scientific interests span from noise phenomena in physical
  systems to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and energy transformations at m
 icro and nanoscale. He authored over 250 papers on top-level scientific jo
 urnals and few books.  He is also the author of 10 patents. His papers ha
 ve been cited more than 14.000 times.\nThe Noise in Physical Systems (NiPS
 ) Laboratory is a research facility within the Physics Department of the U
 niversity of Perugia. The laboratory (www.nipslab.org) has a long-standing
  tradition in studying physical systems in the presence of noise.\nScienti
 fic interest ranges from stochastic nonlinear dynamics modelling to therma
 l noise measurements. Wisepower srl (www.wisepower.it) is a university spi
 n-off company focused on the design and prototyping of micro-energy genera
 tors. The company holds patents on vibration-to-electricity nonlinear conv
 ersion technology.
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