The plasmonic switch

A research team at Penn State has developed a plasmonic switch that may help pave the way for the next generation of super-fast computers.

“If plasmonics are realized, the future will have circuits as small as the current electronic ones with a capacity a million times better,” said Tony Jun Huang, James Henderson assistant professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. “Plasmonics combines the speed and capacity of photonic — light based — circuits with the small size of electronic circuits.”

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Penn State Live

Microsoft's Gazelle Web Browser

Microsoft Research released an interesting PDF about a Web browser it calls Gazelle that's constructed in such a way to act like an operating system with the browser kernel exclusively protecting resources and sharing across Web sites.

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MircoSoft's PDF

Real-Time Holographic Communication Might Soon Be a Reality

Advances in video compression and high speed broadband internet mean that real-time holographic communication may be commonplace in as little as five years' time.

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Musion