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...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 326; no. 7800; p. 86 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
2/27/1993
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| Summary: | 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 parallelism and speed. |
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