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From: "Barbara B. Lory" <lory@caf.mit.edu>
Subject:      Call for Papers

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                            Fifth MIT Conference on
     
                           ADVANCED RESEARCH IN VLSI
                          Design and Applications of
                            Very Large Scale Systems
     
                               March 28-30, 1988
                     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                         Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
     
     
The field of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) is concerned with the design,
production, and use of highly complex integrated circuits.  Many disciplines,
including computer architecture, computer-aided design, parallel algorithms,
semiconductor technology, and testing are involved.  In addition, novel uses
of the technology and concepts originally developed for integrated circuits
are emerging, including integrated sensor arrays, digital photography, highly
parallel computers, microactuators, neural networks, and a variety of special-
purpose architectures and networks of special-purpose devices.  This
conference, the tenth in a series that has been held at MIT, Caltech, UNC, and
Stanford, deals with all these topics, and attempts to promote interactions
among them.
     
Original research papers are sought in any of the following or related areas:
     
 Parallel architectures and algorithms   VLSI devices and circuits
 Special-purpose architectures           Neural networks
 Fault tolerance                         Integrated sensors, actuators
 Layout and routing                        and displays
 Testing                                 Automated semiconductor manufacturing
 Computer-aided design                   Novel technologies
 VLSI theory                             Wafer-scale systems
                                         VLSI applications
     
EXTENDED ABSTRACTS of about ten pages (fourteen copies) should be sent by
September 11, 1987, to:
     
     VLSI Conference
     Microsystems Research Center
     Room 39-321
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
     Cambridge, MA  02139
     
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of this conference, authors are urged
to explain the significance of their work to nonexperts.  Notification of
acceptances will be sent to authors by November 2, 1987.  Camera-ready copy
will be due January 4, 1988 so that the proceedings can be available at the
conference.
     
Invited Speakers
     
     
               Patrick Bosshart (Texas Instruments)
               Robert Brayton (IBM)
               John Hopfield (CalTech)
               Carver Mead (CalTech)
               Richard Newton (Berkeley)
               Nicholas Pippinger (IBM Almaden Research Center)
               Jack I. Raffel (MIT Lincoln Lab)
               Arnold L. Rosenberg (U. Mass., Amherst)
               Timothy Tredwell (Eastman Kodak)
     
Attendance Information
     
     
The arrangements for the conference will be similar to those of past years at
MIT.  Attendance is by invitation.  For information or invitations, contact
Registrations, Room 39-321, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, telephone (617)
253-8138.
     
Organization of the Conference
     
The conference is organized by the MIT Microsystems Research Center.  The
conference chairman is Paul Penfield, Jr.  The program committee consists of
J. Allen (MIT) and F. T. Leighton (MIT) Co-chairmen, Robert Brayton (IBM),
William J. Dally (MIT), Stephen W. Director (CMU), Henry Fuchs (UNC), Andrea
LaPaugh (Princeton), Thomas Lengauer (U. Paderborn), Gordon D. Robinson
(GenRad), Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (U.C. Berkeley), Thomas G.
Szymanski (AT&T Bell Labs), and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford).