Designing Networked Embedded Systems at Nanoscale

On December 3rd at 5:00 the ACM will be having distinguished lecturer Radu Marculescu giving a talk entitled: “Designing Networked Embedded Systems at Nanoscale”. Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Thursday December 3rd at 5:00 in Alden 101

Abstract

As implementation architectures for complex systems evolve towards heterogeneous multiprocessing, let this be on a single chip or on a geographically distributed area, the importance of communication has reached unprecedented peaks. So far, successful design of many integrated systems has been primarily based on algorithms and design methodologies meant to work under deterministic conditions where communication has an ancillary role. However, in the light of emerging systems and applications (e.g., multi-core chips at nanoscale, smart surfaces and dense networks for health monitoring), we need to move from a deterministic, computation-centered mindset to a probabilistic, communication-based design paradigm to compensate for the lack of predictable behavior which used to be the norm in traditional systems. Starting from these overarching ideas, this talk addresses the concept of probabilistic, communication-centric design and identifies specific design principles and optimization techniques that are poised to redefine the landscape of system design in the future.