Panel: Sustainability in Computing

The growing use of computing and proliferation of computing devices requires a holistic focus on sustainability as the environmental impacts of computing technologies go beyond their energy consumption. Environmental impacts span all stages of the lifecycle - manufacturing, operation, and disposal. A sustainability mindset must permeate all organizations involved in design, manufacturing, operation, and disposal/recycling of computational devices. This panel will discuss current and new research on sustainability in computing that spans the full lifecycle, all layers of the computing stack and across the computing spectrum from edge to cloud. The panel will also discuss potential cross-disciplinary approaches to sustainable computing and new notions and metrics to quantify sustainability.