Summary :
Our goal must be the usage of ICT
technologies to reduce significantly the worldwide energy
consumption and carbon emission. Predictions about energy
consumption in 2050 show that nearly 100% renewable energy
is possible. On one hand, ICT devices themselves can be much
more energy efficient in their usage but also in their
fabrication. However, a more significant role for these
systems will be to reduce the pressure over our planet in
domains like transportation, agriculture, lighting, home
control and health monitoring. Nevertheless, people
behavioral changes are also definitely required for
achieving sustainability. It is also obvious that engineers
are the only persons capable of improving planet health by
proposing intelligent ICT systems, but today they are not
credited for this; it is therefore time for changing the
image of engineers.
Biography
Christian Piguet received the M. S.
and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), respectively in
1974 and 1981. He joined the Centre Electronique Horloger
S.A., Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1974. He is now Head of SoC
Program at the CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de
Microtechnique S.A. He is presently involved in the design
of low-power low-voltage integrated circuits in CMOS
technology, including design methodologies, microprocessor
architectures, logic design and leakage and process
variations issues. He is Professor at the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and
lectures in VLSI design in the ALaRI master at the
University of Lugano, Switzerland. Christian Piguet holds
about 30 patents in digital design, microprocessors and
watch systems.
He is author and co-author of about
250 publications in technical journals and of books and book
chapters in low-power digital design. He is member of
steering and program committees of many international
conferences and has served as Program chair or co-chair of
about 10 international conferences.
