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Colloquium: Reversible Computer Architectures, Dr. Michael Kirkedal Thomsen (University of Bremen, Germany), Friday, October 30, 2015, 12:00-13:00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
Reversible Computer Architectures
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Speaker: Dr. Michael Kirkedal Thomsen |
Abstract:
Reversible computations covers computation models in which computations must be deterministic in both directions; in other words, we can always uncompute a computation. The interest in these models is often motivated by its relation to energy and information preservation and the relation to "future" implementation models, for example quantum computing. But the possibility to perform reverse execution are also useful in applications such as reverse debugging and optimistic execution.
Much research focuses on design of reversible logic circuit and reversible programming languages. There is, however, also work on the level in-between, reversible computer architectures, which is the focus of this talk.
I will start with a general introduction to reversible computations and logic. Afterwards I will detail work on reversible architectures and explain the details that make is possible to make the von Neumann architecture reversible. This have implications to the instruction set architecture so I will also explain this and show how to implement programs therein. I hope that the talk can motivate discussions for future directions, as this work is at a very early stage.
Short Bio:
Michael Kirkedal Thomsen got his degree at DIKU, Department of
Computer Science, University of Copenhagen in 2012 on the topic of
Reversible Computations with in in relations to hardware description
languages, program transformation, computer architectures.
He is currently working at the University of Bremen as a Marie Curie fellow
where he has continued this work and have applied this to designing languages to
describe reversible logic and reversible logic circuits, and
formalising the reversible logic model.
He is, furthermore, participating in the work of other "general-purpose"
reversible programming languages and works much with functional languages,
e.g. Haskell and Erlang.
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