Physical
Computation
Laboratory

We explore fundamental methods to use an understanding of the physical world to enable efficient computation that interacts with nature.

Physical Computation Laboratory

Recent Publications

Crayon: saving power through shape and color approximation on next-generation displays

P. Stanley-Marbell, V. Estellers, and M. Rinard, EuroSys 2016.      
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Crayon: saving power through shape and color approximation on next-generation displays
Efficiency Limits for Value-Deviation-Bounded Approximate Communication

Phillip Stanley-Marbell and Martin Rinard, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, December 2015.       
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Efficiency Limits for Value-Deviation-Bounded Approximate Communication
How device properties influence energy-delay metrics and the energy-efficiency of parallel computations

Phillip Stanley-Marbell, HotPower '15: Proceedings of the Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems October 2015.      
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How device properties influence energy-delay metrics and the energy-efficiency of parallel computations
Value-Deviation-Bounded Serial Data Encoding for Energy-Efficient Approximate Communication

Phillip Stanley-Marbell and Martin Rinard. MIT-CSAIL-Technical Reports 2015.      
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Value-Deviation-Bounded Serial Data Encoding for Energy-Efficient Approximate Communication