A variety of computing systems are promising (or threatening) to scale to a limit of thermodynamic complexity, in which the number of information-bearing degrees of freedom becomes comparable to the number of physical ones. At this point it is no longer possible to separate their physical and computational descriptions; this workshop will explore emerging insights into devices, architectures, algorithms, and applications appropriate to such enormously complex computers.
Attendance is open, but requires registration with susan.bottari@cba.mit.edu
8:00-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:30
The Ultimate Costs of Conformal Computing
Tom Toffoli (BU)
The Computational Universe
Seth Lloyd (MIT)
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
3:00-3:30
Break
3:30-5:00
5:00-7:00
Reception