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With the many hurdles facing Moore's law-the maxim that states that the sizes of transistors will halve very two years-at the heart of the electronics and information technology industries, sustaining it past the next decade is viewed as a serious challenge. Increasingly, electronics and computing devices are being used in contexts where human perception is the primary interface to the (embedded) computing engine: cell phones, bio-prosthetics, sensors, signal processing and search technologies are a few examples. The center's guiding philosophy is to take advantage of the limitations in our ability to perceive quality of information from a computer, and when we do perceive it, our willingness to tolerate it if in return, we are able to have access to devices with much lower cost, energy consumption, heat dissipation and an ability to cope with fluctuations in the "quality" of the transistors. Thus, value of information can be used to guide the design of computing devices, while..

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