Programming news · December 2025
IEEE Rebooting Computing puts reversible and adiabatic computing centre stage
The IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing was held on 15–16 December 2025 in downtown San Diego, continuing its role as a premier venue for post-CMOS and unconventional computing.
Its call explicitly names energy-efficient computing — including reversible, adiabatic, ballistic and cryogenic approaches — alongside neuromorphic, quantum, optical and probabilistic methods, and especially welcomes co-design that bridges these paradigms across the stack. The programme placed adiabatic and energy-recovery hardware on equal footing with quantum and neuromorphic computing as serious answers to the industry's power crisis.
ICRC matters to reversibility because it signals that the energy case for running computation backwards is now argued in the same rooms as the rest of the post-Moore agenda.