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Posts tagged: optical computing

Could Computers be Made Out of Light?

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

You might know that computers today use electrons to pass signals back and forth on silicon chips. But scientists are always looking for better and faster ways to send and store information, and are dreaming about what computers of the future would look like. ... Read More...

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