DA Vision: Lets work on Grand Challenges Steven Levitan University of Pittsburgh

Some Grand Challenges Longitude Prize 2014 Help people with dementia Restore movement to the paralyzed Ensure clean water Ensure sustainable food *Prevent resistance to antibiotics Fly without damaging environment NSF/NAE 14 Make solar energy affordable Provide energy from fusion Carbon sequestration methods Manage the nitrogen cycle Clean water Urban infrastructure Health informatics Engineer better medicines Reverse-engineer the brain Prevent nuclear terror Secure cyberspace Enhance virtual reality Advance personalized learning Tools for scientific discovery Xprize 8 Safe drinking water Personal Health Monitoring Energy & Water from Waste Around the World Ocean Survey Transforming Parentless Youth Brain-Computer Interface Wireless Power Transmission Ultra-Fast Point-To-Point Travel

What (Not) To Do DA success comes from a confluence of domain and algorithm expertise Takes time and dedication Quick forays into “the next big thing” will not work Special issues, special sessions, keynotes, topical workshops without long-term commitment – Discourages EDA researchers from branching out into new fields – Barrier to bringing domain experts into our community

Let’s Make a Commitment I propose that we, as a community, pick a subset of grand engineering challenges and commit to working together to solve them That we commit to: – Funding this work – Providing places for the work to be published – Celebrate the advancements we make Even if they do not result in traditional EDA tools and technologies.

Some Examples Support urban infrastructure, reduce energy consumption, and carbon emissions – Create viable intelligent roadway signaling (i.e., timed traffic lights) at the city scale. Reduce global warming with efficient carbon mineral sequestration techniques – CAD for catalysis to speed up these processes Provide safe drinking water for everyone (third world, and California) – CAD for water purification technologies