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eFutures: beyond Moore's Law

13 - 14 May 2013 09:00 - 17:00

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor David Cumming, Professor Steve Furber CBE FREng FRS and Professor Douglas Paul

Event details

Moore’s Law of scaling has driven microelectronics to revolutionise computer and communication technologies. In the 21st Century, microelectronics will deliver integration of new and non-electronic functionality for optical, chemical and biological systems. In this scientific meeting international leaders will be brought together to discuss the diverse opportunities and methodologies that will define this exciting field in the next 20 years.

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Biographies of the organisers and speakers are available below  and recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the event.  Papers have been published in this issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

This meeting was immediately followed by a related satellite meeting at the Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, home of the Kavli Royal Society International Centre.

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Organisers

  • Professor David Cumming, University of Glasgow, UK

    David Cumming is the Professor of Electronic Systems at Glasgow University. He has BEng. (Glasgow, 1989) and PhD (Cambridge, 1993) degrees and previously worked for STMicroelectronics and the University of Canterbury, NZ. He has held 1851 and EPSRC Research Fellowships. He is Head of Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering, a research unit of 25 academic staff, and leads the Microsystem Technology Group in the School of Engineering at GU. His research focuses on the design and implementation of highly integrated microsystems for applications including biomedical diagnostic sensing and imaging technologies. There is a considerable emphasis on VLSI design, photonics and micro/nanofabrication. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences, giving invited talks world-wide. He is CEng, FIET and holds a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award. He is Chair of the IEEE-EDS Scotland Chapter, an AE for IEEE Trans BioCAS and is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.

  • Professor Douglas Paul, University of Glasgow, UK

    Douglas Paul has an EPSRC Quantum Technology Fellowship and for the last 5 years has been Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was awarded the Institute of Physics President’s Medal in 2014. He is part of the UK Quantum Technology Hub on Quantum Enhanced Imaging and the UK Quantum Technology Hub on Sensors and Metrology. His work includes miniaturising the lasers and optical control for cold atom systems including atomic clocks, developing single photon detectors on a silicon platform, engineering MEMS based gravimeters with squeezed light and developing miniature current standards using a silicon nanowire technology that also has potential applications for QIP.

  • Professor Steve Furber CBE FREng FRS, University of Manchester

    Steve Furber CBE FREng FRS is ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing a BA in mathematics and a PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Cambridge, UK, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. Over 100 billion variants of the ARM processor have since been manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile and embedded computing. He moved to the ICL Chair at Manchester in 1990 where he leads research into asynchronous and low-power systems and, more recently, neural systems engineering, where the SpiNNaker project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for brain modelling applications.