報告題目： “Memristors: New Device with Intelligence”
報告人：Prof. Leon O. Chua, University of California, Berkeley
報告時間：10 月28 日（星期二）上午 9:00-11:00
報告地點：教12-118
Abstract:
Postulated in 1971 and reported as a working nano device by HP in the 1 May 2008 issue of
Nature, the "memristor" has since been hailed as a disrupting technology that would soon replace
flash memories, DRAMS, and hard drives. Memristors are endowed with non-volatile memories
and highly nonlinear dynamics that could emulate synapses and action potentials, leading
naturally to learning and intelligence near the edge of chaos. Memristors is the right stuff for
building brain-like machines that compute via non-von Neumann architectures and
unconventional operating systems. It can out-perform supercomputers by orders-of-magnitude
improvements in speed and power consumption. This lecture will take a glimpse at the
salient signature and fingerprints of the memristor, and illustrate its potential via simple toy
examples. It will also answer many lingering questions that researchers are afraid to ask.
Biography
Prof. Leon Chua received his MS and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1970, he has been with the University
of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences.
He was the first recipient of the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award in 2005 and was awarded
the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award in 2000. Elected an IEEE Fellow in 1974, he has
received many international prizes, including the IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize,
the IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize, the Frederick Emmons Award, the M.E. Van Valkenburg Award
(twice), and the 2005 Francqui Award from Belgium.
He has been awarded seven USA patents and 15 Honorary Doctorates from universities in
Europe, Japan and Hong Kong. He was elected a foreign member of the European Academy of
Sciences in 1997 and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2007. In 2010, he was awarded a
John Guggenheim Fellow and The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship. In 2011 he was
awarded a Distinguished Professorship by Techniche Universitat Munchen, Germany, and also a
Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship within Imperial College
London. In 2013-2015 he was awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship by the European
Commission.
