Optical computing has been touted as a potential future for information processing, by using packets of light instead of electrons as the information carrier.

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Running the algorithms to translate the optical sensor info takes a good bit of computing power, however.

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That would allow electronic data to be converted easily into optical data within the confines of a chip, so helping Moore's whiggish interpretation of the future of computing to continue to come true.

ECONOMIST: Optoelectronics

He is an active member of the Cloud Security Association, Jericho Forum, Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF), Internet and Engineering Task Force (IETF), IEEE and the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF).

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