Papers intended for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2025) must submit by 6 October 2025 AoE (No Extensions).
Continued and revolutionary advances in computation requires research across the computing stack, including materials, devices, circuits, algorithms, system software, and network architectures. Co-design between layers of the computing stack provides opportunities to harness novel device physics and materials for energy efficiency, performance, density, or new capabilities. The development of exciting unconventional computing systems thus requires interdisciplinary perspectives to enable efficient system-level utilization of physical phenomena for computing.
This Collection in npj Unconventional Computing showcases independently peer-reviewed research inspired by the themes and discussions of the 2025 International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC). While the Collection is curated in collaboration with members of the ICRC organizing committee, all submissions are reviewed through the journal’s standard editorial process and are not considered conference proceedings. Submissions are welcome from all researchers working in these areas.
This collection aims to provide multidisciplinary perspectives regarding the development of novel computing paradigms that consider challenges and opportunities throughout and across the computing stack. Bridging analog and digital neuromorphic, alongside exotic new forms of probabilistic, reversible and quantum computing, the broad scope of this collection extends to many topics of interest:
- Future Computing Paradigms: Including but not limited to neuromorphic (brain-inspired) computing, approximate/probabilistic computing, analog computing, or schemes combining these approaches; energy-efficient computing including reversible computing, adiabatic computing, ballistic computing, and cryogenic computing; quantum computing; optical computing; biological and biochemical computing; non-von Neumann computer architectures (e.g., in-memory processing, memory-based computing, content addressable memory, cellular automata, or neural networks).
- Future Design Aspects for Computing: Including but not limited to extending Moore’s law; error-tolerant logic and circuits; future of design automation; post-CMOS or memory-centric computing; 3D, 2.5D, or other novel heterogeneous integration/packaging approaches; future circuit scaling methods with high reliability and/or flexibility; cybersecurity in future computing systems.
- Future Software and Applications: Including but not limited to beyond von Neumann software design (operating systems, compilers, security, and resource management); future programming paradigms and languages; applications driving next generation computing hardware (e.g., machine learning, deep learning, large language models).
In addition to undergoing the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular npj Unconventional Computing articles, selected submissions to this collection will also be invited for presentation at the 10th International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC), which will be held from December 15-16, 2025, in San Diego, CA, USA.
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