Abstract

The pursuing of performance and energy efficiency of computing never ends. However, witnessing the end of Moore’s law, conventional computing has been confronting its natural limit, driving the developing of brand-new unconventional computing paradigms. In this talk, we shall focus on several key computing applications, and discuss how unconventional computing can help boost the performance and energy efficiency of these applications. In addition, we shall also take a look at the key issues of realizing unconventional computing on emerging nonvolatile memory and storage media. With the unique supports of in-memory and on-storage computing of these media, the hardware–software co-design techniques of unconventional computing are also explored for enhanced security, robustness, and access control capabilities of data. 

Bio.

Po-Chun Huang received his Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from National Taiwan University in 2012 and 2006, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, and Assistant Professors at Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan, and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. His major research interests include unconventional computing, nonvolatile memories, storage systems, data structures, and data mining. He is a Member of IEEE.

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