Memristor and Memristive Systems Symposium (Part 1)

In 1971, Leon O. Chua published a seminal paper on the missing basic circuit element. Leon O. Chua and Sung-Mo Kang published a paper, in 1976, that described a large class of devices and systems they called memristive devices and systems. Just recently, Stan Williams and his research team at HP Labs unveiled a two-terminal titanium dioxide nanoscale device in Nature magazine that exhibited memristor characteristics.

This symposium will explore the potential of memristors and memristive systems as they advance state of the art nano-electronic circuits.

Program (Part 1)

Opening Remarks
Steve Kang, Chancellor, UC Merced
Pinaki Mazumder, Program Director, National Science Foundation
Stuart Russell, Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Memristors
Leon Chua, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Finding the Missing Memristor
Stan Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director of Information & Quantum Systems Lab, Hewlett-Packard

Material Implication Using Memristors: An Alternate Form of Boolean Logic
Philip Kuekes, Computer Architect, Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories




The event is co-sponsored by UC Merced and UC Berkeley in cooperation with the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Symposium is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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[softwarecommie]

Hahaha. SinistaMace is right. In fact, the ancient Mayans and the Catholic church have known about memristors for millennia but have been hiding it to keep a monopoly of communication with Dogs.

[Hoopermazing]

Stopped using them?????

You obviously don't play electric guitar.

[CubanCongaMan]

Loved it! The mark of true genius is being able to laugh at ourselves and Dr. Leon Chua's explanation of why it took so long for the memrister's "discovery" (starting at about minute: 49:00 of the presentaton) , dating back to Aristotle, is not only brilliant, but hilarious: Ergo, a true genius at work!!!!

[erikis894]

hey there.........

[unskeptable]

Symposium??? Seriously omg

[Libervurto]

I can't tell if I'm struggling to understand his accent or I just suck at maths.

[hitstar31]

awesome seminar.

[SpiridonovRU]

Great!

[TSBoncompte]

@MiKikaIwaShizaru I'm guessing it will

[MiKikaIwaShizaru]

They should have named it better, "memristor" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue like "transistor" does.

[millamulisha]

Memristor has already been found! =))) Just read it today =PP

[Aerolfos]

Transistors and vacuum tubes are very similar. Transistors are just cheaper, smaller and use less power, while vacuum tubes are better at sound amplification because they are inherently analog. I personally love vacuum tubes, but transistors are pretty useful for standard applications.

Also, soon we will no doubt replace transistors with memristors, and then it's off to optical computers or quantum processors. just don't expect all this to happen right away though.