Light-hearted.

Discusses how a team at the University of Colorado in Boulder has developed an optical computer that keeps all its information on the move all the time. Its memory comprises 5 kilometers of coiled glass fiber. How the computer works; Comparison to conventional computer; Compromise between parallel...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Economist Vol. 326; no. 7800; p. 86
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 2/27/1993
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