Emerging Technologies 2008

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Each year the Technology Review offers us its list of technologies which, according to it, will mark the coming year. For 2008, we will notice that a certain number of technologies have been selected which touch on uncertainty, complexity and social relationships. It seems that researchers today are venturing into dangerous areas where the certainties built by Newton and Descartes are collapsing. Thus, one can only be surprised by this project of a new “probabilistic” processor model in other words capable of being slightly wrong in its calculations. What interest ? In fact, processors expend a lot of energy to avoid errors. When the first computers were created, they essentially had to handle tasks for which accuracy was a fundamental requirement, be it rocket launches or financial statements. But today, we manipulate much more vague information, such as sound or music.
  
What does it matter if the processor is a little wrong on the color of a pixel, on the range of a musical instrument or the pitch of a note? After all, “lossy” compression (like mp3) has gotten us used to those little infidelities that lie below the threshold of perception. By using such a “probabilistic” system, the voltage required by the processors can be greatly reduced, and the life of the batteries of laptops or mobiles can be extended. But in the more distant future, the system would background remove service make it possible to continue the constant improvement of the processors described by the famous “Moore's law”. Miniaturization is indeed approaching a stage, that of quantum physics, where one can no longer be exact anyway, or probability becomes the rule. However, this new type of processor precisely integrates a “probabilistic logic” which can manage this kind of uncertainties. the system would make it possible to continue the constant improvement of the processors described by the famous “Moore's law.
  


Miniaturization is indeed approaching a stage that of quantum physics, where one can no longer be exact anyway, or probability becomes the rule. However, this new type of processor precisely integrates a “probabilistic logic” which can manage this kind of uncertainties. the system would make it possible to continue the constant improvement of the processors described by the famous “Moore's law”. Miniaturization is indeed approaching a stage, that of quantum physics, where one can no longer be exact anyway, or probability becomes the rule. However, this new type of processor precisely integrates a “probabilistic logic” which can manage this kind of uncertainties. These articles may interest you My graphic predictions for technologies from 2008 to 2012…! [August 2008] The latest techno from Japan! Anticipate innovation in 2014 with Gartner's Hype Cycle. To share Leave a comment Your email address will not be published. Mandatory fields are marked with * Comment * Name * Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.