1. CS 498: Spring 2017 Amit, Elena, & Sole
Some Research ideas
CS 498: Spring 2017
Amit, Elena, & Sole

2. Next-generation computing paradigms
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
“... in recent years even the best computer architectures haven’t been able to keep up with demand for the kind of simulation processing power needed to handle exceedingly complex design optimization and related problems.”
Mainstream computing paradigms so far
Analog computing (a differential analyzer, a slide rule)
Digital computing (todays computers)
Next-generation computing paradigms
Quantum computing
Biologically inspired computing (Synthetic biological circuits / genetic circuits)

3. RQ for each computing paradigm
Architecture
How is information stored?
How is a logical circuit built?
How is computation performed?
Programming languages
How to create a PL?
How to “compile” a program?
Algorithms
How to write algorithms?
What problems can/cannot be solved?
How fast can it do?

4. Resources
The Quipper language (
Synthetic biological circuits research groups (cisb.mit.edu)
Quantum computing academic centers
Oxford Quantum (oxfordquantum.org/)
MIT quantum research center (ctp.lns.mit.edu/research-quantum.html)
Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center (bqic.berkeley.edu)
Companies
D-Wave (
MSR Quantum Architectures and Computation Group (QuArC) ( and-computation-group-quarc/)