Future Computing
Richard Gaughan, Contributing Editor
Seventeen years ago, Alan Huang wrote in the
Proceedings of the IEEE about the prospects of optical computing. The barriers were, he said, not so much technological, "but more and more [challenges] of imagination."
Today many of the promises he wrote about remain unfulfilled. Depending upon the definition of optical computing, it's a distant dream, it's right around the corner or it already exists -- and has for hundreds of years…
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