Preface
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Acknowledgments
This book has benefited from the interaction and collaboration of literally hundreds
of people, thanks to the highly multi-disciplinary discussion process adopted in
the European COST Action “Memristors: Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and
Applications (MemoCiS).” The result is that there are many people to thank and in
special manner the Action Chair Julius Georgiou and the Working Group leaders
Sabina Spiga, Themis Prodromakis, Dalibor Biolek, Ronald Tetzlaff, Elisabetta
Chicca, Sandro Carrara, and Bernabe Linares-Barranco. We have also enjoyed the
cross-fertilizing exchange with Abu Sebastian, Thomas Mikolajick, Gianaurelio
Cuniberti, Giacomo Indiveri, Stravos Stavrinides, Rodrigo Picos, Enrique Ponce,
Enrique Miranda, Nikolay V. Kuznetsov, Georgios Sirakoulis, Said Hamdioui,
J. Joshua Yang, Qiangfei Xia, Wei Lu, Yuchao Yang, Shahar Kvatinsky, Carlo
Ricciardi, Mattia Frasca, Daniele Ielmini, Stefano Brivio, and Marius Orlowski.
We have received invaluable assistance through day-by-day conversations with
our colleagues. It is our pleasure to mention in particular the stimulating discussions
and constructive comments by Pier Paolo Civalleri, Alon Ascoli, Alberto Tesi,
Mauro Di Marco, Luca Pancioni, Giacomo Innocenti, Valentina Lanza, Jacopo
Secco, Francesco Marrone, and Gianluca Zoppo.
The Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitá e della Ricerca (MIUR) is
acknowledged for the support of the project “Analogue COmputing with Dynamic
Switching Memristor Oscillators: Theory, Devices and Applications (COSMO).”
The support of the Politecnico di Torino under the Visiting Professors Program
2018 is also acknowledged.
We are especially indebted to Sung Mo (Steve) Kang, Ronald Tetzlaff, and R.
Stanley Williams for their prolusion to the book, for thought-provoking criticisms
of many chapters, and for suggestions to include relevant contents and examples.
We are also grateful to our departments for providing an environment to write the
book. Thanks to the staff of Springer for being efficient and cooperative during
the production process. We especially enjoyed working with Maria Bellantone
and Barbara Amorese displaying just the right combination of patience and gentle
pressure.
Finally and most importantly, we thank our families for their encouragement.
Your faith in us is a powerful driving force.
Memristor: Remembrance of Things Past
This part is mainly based on the work [21] written by L. O. Chua to present his
personal scientific and historical account of memristor concept.
Postulated in 1971, the memristor did not see the light of day until a serendipitous discovery
at HP nearly four decades later. Here, I reminisce on the crisis that inspired me to develop
an axiomatic nonlinear circuit theory where the memristor emerges naturally as the fourth
basic circuit element.
xix
Acknowledgments
This book has benefited from the interaction and collaboration of literally hundreds
of people, thanks to the highly multi-disciplinary discussion process adopted in
the European COST Action “Memristors: Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and
Applications (MemoCiS).” The result is that there are many people to thank and in
special manner the Action Chair Julius Georgiou and the Working Group leaders
Sabina Spiga, Themis Prodromakis, Dalibor Biolek, Ronald Tetzlaff, Elisabetta
Chicca, Sandro Carrara, and Bernabe Linares-Barranco. We have also enjoyed the
cross-fertilizing exchange with Abu Sebastian, Thomas Mikolajick, Gianaurelio
Cuniberti, Giacomo Indiveri, Stravos Stavrinides, Rodrigo Picos, Enrique Ponce,
Enrique Miranda, Nikolay V. Kuznetsov, Georgios Sirakoulis, Said Hamdioui,
J. Joshua Yang, Qiangfei Xia, Wei Lu, Yuchao Yang, Shahar Kvatinsky, Carlo
Ricciardi, Mattia Frasca, Daniele Ielmini, Stefano Brivio, and Marius Orlowski.
We have received invaluable assistance through day-by-day conversations with
our colleagues. It is our pleasure to mention in particular the stimulating discussions
and constructive comments by Pier Paolo Civalleri, Alon Ascoli, Alberto Tesi,
Mauro Di Marco, Luca Pancioni, Giacomo Innocenti, Valentina Lanza, Jacopo
Secco, Francesco Marrone, and Gianluca Zoppo.
The Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universitá e della Ricerca (MIUR) is
acknowledged for the support of the project “Analogue COmputing with Dynamic
Switching Memristor Oscillators: Theory, Devices and Applications (COSMO).”
The support of the Politecnico di Torino under the Visiting Professors Program
2018 is also acknowledged.
We are especially indebted to Sung Mo (Steve) Kang, Ronald Tetzlaff, and R.
Stanley Williams for their prolusion to the book, for thought-provoking criticisms
of many chapters, and for suggestions to include relevant contents and examples.
We are also grateful to our departments for providing an environment to write the
book. Thanks to the staff of Springer for being efficient and cooperative during
the production process. We especially enjoyed working with Maria Bellantone
and Barbara Amorese displaying just the right combination of patience and gentle
pressure.
Finally and most importantly, we thank our families for their encouragement.
Your faith in us is a powerful driving force.
Memristor: Remembrance of Things Past
This part is mainly based on the work [21] written by L. O. Chua to present his
personal scientific and historical account of memristor concept.
Postulated in 1971, the memristor did not see the light of day until a serendipitous discovery
at HP nearly four decades later. Here, I reminisce on the crisis that inspired me to develop
an axiomatic nonlinear circuit theory where the memristor emerges naturally as the fourth
basic circuit element.