Twenty-five submitted contributions to be presented at the March, 1999 workshop. The papers and posters explore topics seen to be engendered by Volta's invention of the first battery 200 years ago. The material is organized into sections including embedded tutorials, low-power design methods and architectures, power modeling and estimation, and low-power circuits. Specific topics include power dissipation in the next generation processors, trading-off power versus area through a parameterizable model for virtual memory management, and low-power issues in a digital programmable artificial retina. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.