{"id":6968,"date":"2018-01-19T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=6968"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:06","slug":"computer-design-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/computer-design-center\/","title":{"rendered":"U-M leads new $32M computer design center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3620\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3620\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg\" alt=\"green circuit board\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-125x88.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-283x200.jpg 283w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-60x42.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(geralt, pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the computing industry struggles to maintain its historically rapid pace of innovation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ns.umich.edu\/new\/releases\/25372-reimagining-how-computers-are-designed-u-m-leads-new-32m-center\">a new, $32 million center based at U-M<\/a> aims to streamline and democratize the design and manufacturing of next-generation computing systems. The Center for Applications Driving Architectures, or ADA, will develop a transformative, &#8220;plug-and-play&#8221; ecosystem to encourage a flood of fresh ideas in computing frontiers such as autonomous control, robotics, and machine-learning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The electronic industry is facing many challenges going forward, and we stand a much better chance of solving these problems if we can make hardware design more accessible to a large pool of talent,&#8221; said <strong>Valeria Bertacco<\/strong>, professor of computer science and engineering and director of the ADA Center. &#8220;We want to make it possible for anyone with motivation and a good idea to build novel high-performance computing systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The center is a five-year project that&#8217;s led by U-M and includes researchers from a total of seven universities, pending final contracts: Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of Illinois and University of Washington.\u00a0&#8220;This is a daring and progressive approach to system design that stands to revolutionize the computing industry,&#8221; said Dean of Engineering <strong>Alec Gallimore<\/strong>. &#8220;The work of this new center will empower generations of engineers and computer scientists to design and build the systems that can bring their ideas to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the computing industry struggles to maintain its historically rapid pace of innovation, a new, $32 million center based at U-M aims to streamline and democratize the design and manufacturing of next-generation computing systems. The Center for Applications Driving Architectures, or ADA, will develop a transformative, &#8220;plug-and-play&#8221; ecosystem to encourage a flood of fresh ideas in computing frontiers\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/computer-design-center\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[109,21,130],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-design","tag-innovation","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",640,452,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-125x88.jpg",125,88,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-283x200.jpg",283,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",640,452,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",600,424,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",640,452,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",640,452,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",640,452,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/board-540253_640.jpg",354,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As the computing industry struggles to maintain its historically rapid pace of innovation, a new, $32 million center based at U-M aims to streamline and democratize the design and manufacturing of next-generation computing systems. 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