Roadmapping 2013 - Roadmapping Sandpit Workshop on Next-Generation Spatial Hardware Architectures

Workshops are typically run as mini-conferences with invited or curated talks and small panel discussions. This model works great for specific focused research areas that have sufficient maturity and stability, but does not produce or encourage international collaboration and identification of global research targets and collective areas for future study.
We want to design a research event where participants get to shape the future of their field. This is inspired by past events at NSF, EPSRC, NSERC and NTU where top panelists have debated and discussed important and interesting research themes in closed-door invitation-only environments. We want to democratize the creative research methods and open it up to a broader audience capable and willing to provide inputs.
This proposed workshop will be run in multiples phases:
*Phase 1 - Researcher Speed Dating:* Participants will introduce themselves and their research topics/areas of interest in 1 minute to other participants.
This will help them self-organize into partitioned subsets with a minimum edit distance with their labmates/friends.
*Phase 2 - Pre-canned Talks:* In each session, the session facilitators will deliver a crisp 10-minute pitch of ideas and seed questions for fueling discussion and debate in the theme under consideration.
*Phase 3 - Group Debates:* Within each group, the participants will have 30-minutes to conduct independent mini-discussions on the theme. They will use this time to identify new ideas and challenges within the theme, discuss+debate+refine ideas and summarize these ideas.
*Phase 4 - Summarization:* After the group debates, each group will get 2-minute slots to present their findings to the rest of the room followed by a lively Q&A.
Topics
We seek submissions on broad topics which include, but not limited to:
Energy and Programmability for next-generation computing architectures