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--------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OPTICAL SUPERCOMPUTING (OSC'08)
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August 25-29, 2008, Vienna, Austria In conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC'08)
WEB PAGE:
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~moltean/osc2008
FORUM:
SCOPE
OCS, the International Workshop on Optical SuperComputing, is a new annual forum for research presentations on all facets of optical computing for solving hard computation tasks. Optical computing devices have the potential for being the very next computing infrastructure. Given the frequency limitations and cross-talk phenomena, as well as soft-errors of electronic devices on one hand, and the natural parallelism of optical computing devices, as well as the advance in fiber optics and optical switches on the other hand make optical computing commercial-able. Research contributions to the theory, design, specification, analysis, implementation, or application of optical supercomputers are solicited.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
-Design of optical computing devices
-Electro-optics devices for interacting with optical computing devices
-Practical implementations
-Analysis of existing devices and case studies
-Optical and laser switching technologies
-Applications and algorithms for optical devices
-Alpha practical, X-Rays and nano-technologies for optical computing
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: May 1, 2008 Acceptance notification: June 1, 2008 Camera ready: June 15, 2008 Workshop: August 25-29, 2008
PUBLICATION
The workshop POST-proceedings will be published by LNCS Springer Verlag.
Selected best papers will be published in a special issue of the Natural Computing journal.
Also, we plan to have an associated peer reviewed feature issue in Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A), and we have made preliminary inquiries concerning this.
ORGANIZATION
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University Mihai Oltean, Babes-Bolyai University Wolfgang Osten, Stuttgart Universitat Tobias Haist, Stuttgart Universitat
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Hossin Abdeldayem (NASA-Goddard, USA) H. John Caulfield (Fisk University, USA) Shlomi Dolev (Chair) (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Hen Fitoussi (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Joseph W. Goodman (Stanford University, USA) Tobias Haist (Co-Chair) (Stuttgart Universitat, Germany) Lene Hau (Harvard University, USA) Jeremy O'Brien (University of Bristol, UK) Mihai Oltean (Co-Chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Alastair McAulay (Lehigh University, USA) Stephane Messika (LRI, France) John Reif (Duke University, USA) Joseph Rosen (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Natan T. Shaked (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) Damien Woods (University College Cork, Ireland)
Best regards, Mihai Oltean http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~moltean