Wild and Crazy Ideas Session

You know you are ready for a wild and crazy idea when:

• Incrementalism is getting you down...

• You are tired of computer architecture as we know it...

• You are seriously thinking of switching to oceanography...

But only you have the power to make a wild and crazy idea happen. We, however, can have the honor of giving you a venue to air it. Join us for the 4th Wild and Crazy Ideas session to be held in conjunction with ASPLOS XII. More than just join us to listen, participate, by sharing your ideas with the community. So send in your craziest, wackiest ideas, if not for the glory and the fame, for the prize of having the wildest idea going in computer architecture today. (Prize will have no cash value ;-).

Program Committee:

• Mark Oskin, University of Washington, Chair
• Todd Austin, University of Michigan
• Bob Colwell, Consultant

Program:

• Simha Sethumadhavan and Doug Burger, Powering a Cat Warmer Using Bi2Te3 Thin-Film Thermoelectric Conversion of Microprocessor Waste Heat
• Dirk Grunwald, Compostable Computers
• Ivan E. Sutherland, FLEET - A One-Instruction Computer
• John Oliver, Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Roland Geyer and Frederic T. Chong,
• Life-Cycle Aware Computer Architecture: Reusing Silicon in the Technology Food Chain
• Seth Goldstein, Brain in a Bottle