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Hellos, is this the Web?

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Computer technology reaches new heights with the recent discovery of speech-recognition software, which disregards the need for keyboards. The idea of dictation technology was introduced in 1993, when Apple launched a voice controlled-operating system.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
Usage, Software, Column, World Wide Web, Voice recognition, Speech recognition

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Light motif: an optical computer stores its program in space-time

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The bit-serial optical computer stores data as light pulses. The computer uses dynamic memory instead of flip-flops to store data. Researchers Harry F. Jordan and Vincent P. Heuring expect to develop a finished product around 1998 or 2000.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1993
Optical data processing

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Computing at the Speed of Light: emerging ways to make photonic connections to electronic microchips may dramatically change the shape of computers in the decade ahead

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Photonic connections that exchange data through laser light are expected to replace copper wiring in computers, significantly altering the way computers might look - some potentially becoming smaller, or becoming part of a car or building.

Author: Gibbs, W. Wayt
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
Electronic computers, Computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Materials, Photonics, System selection, Software/hardware leasing

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Subjects list: Innovations, Computers, Digital computers
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