Of course, the Wild and Crazy Idea session can only be as good as the submissions. Thus, the success of this session depends crucially on you. Submissions should consist of a one-page abstract, including three major parts: 

1. a description of the problem that you are tackling, 
2. a description of your solution, and 
3. a justification for why your solution is a good one.

Ideas will be selected based on their originality and distance of "forward-lookingness". Here is the one venue in which radicalness (although not "flakiness") will be rewarded. All aspects of computer architecture and systems organization are fair game: new computational models, interesting computing substrates (biological, quantum, etc), new architectural features, interesting solutions to pressing problems (such as design complexity, power consumption, etc.). Anyone can submit, but only serious submissions, please.

Send submissions to WildAndCrazy@cs.wisc.edu by Saturday August 31, 2002.  Please submit either ASCII text or PDF format.