iii To my family, teachers and friends iv Abstract For the past four decades, cost and features have driven CMOS scaling. Severe lithography and material limitations seen below the 20 nm node, however, are challenging the fundamental premise of affordable CMOS scaling. Just continuing to co-optimize leaf cell circuit and layout designs with process technology does not enable us to exploit the c...

This paper presents a holistic approach to develop a visual simulation system for computer engineering education. This approach starts out with a visual instruction set architecture, and plans to build the other layers of computers by moving up and down from such an instruction set architecture specification in a simulation environment. As a step in this direction, an instruction set architectu...

This contribution takes a quote from Einstein, We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them, to take a step back and try to have another viewpoint when thinking about a new internetworking architecture. The ongoing research will not be looked at from an application research point of view nor from a communication technology point of view, but from a sof...

In the last years, the new notions of architecture and the new roles of architects have caused strong changes regarding architectural education. These changes are demanding a user-driven strategy more focused on human experiences and a holistic view of the discipline. This strategy entails the restructuration of architectural studies, requiring interdisciplinary action with other agents such as...

This contribution takes a quote from Einstein, We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them, to take a step back and try to have another viewpoint when thinking about a new internetworking architecture. The ongoing research will not be looked at from an application research point of view nor from a communication technology point of view, but from a sof...

Australian government enterprises have shown a significant interest in the cloud technology-enabled enterprise transformation. Australian government suggests the whole-of-a-government strategy to cloud adoption. The challenge is how best to realise this cloud adoption strategy for the cloud technology-enabled enterprise transformation? The cloud adoption strategy realisation requires concrete g...

A new, radical CNN design approach is presented in this paper, considering the reduction of the total computational load during inference. This is achieved by a new holistic intervention on both the CNN architecture and the training procedure, which targets to the parsimonious inference by learning to exploit or remove the redundant capacity of a CNN architecture. This is accomplished, by the i...

This paper argues a model of complex system design for sustainable architecture within a framework of entropy evolution. The spectrum of sustainable architecture consists of the efficient use of energy and material resource in life-cycle of buildings, the active involvement of the occupants in micro-climate control within buildings, and the natural environmental context. The interactions of the...