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Miller's switches became the building blocks for Huang's optical processor, which took five years to develop. His team finished construction around Christmas but did not get the machine to work until last month. The device is far cruder than even the most basic computers: it has no permanent memory, and the only function it can perform is counting simple numbers. Just a small fraction of the thousands of switches are connected. Nonetheless, Huang insists, the machine proves that his principle works. He thinks computer makers will soon replace wiring inside their machines with optical circuits...
...Huang has not convinced everyone, however. Says one scientist: "Huang is like the boy who cried wolf. He's been promising an optical computer for years, and he's still promising. I'm waiting for him to prove that it's practical rather than it's possible." Others are skeptical that optics can compete with electronic computers. Says Bernard Soffer, senior scientist at Hughes Aircraft Research: "Optical computers would have to be ten to 100 times better than electronic ones to justify retooling." Even enthusiasts are guarded. Says optical-computing pioneer Joseph Goodman, a Stanford electrical- engineerin g professor...
...American. A group of 13 Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi and Nippon Electric, has teamed with the government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry to launch a ten-year optical-research program. Given the Japanese record in electronics, their interest in optical computers may be the best evidence that Huang and AT&T are on to something...
...stuck in this musical stasisplaying music that's a hundred or more years old,"said Concert Master Erich Huang...
...What surprised the students was the ferocityof the government's response, not the crackdownitself," said Huang Yashang, a doctoral candidateat Harvard's Government Department who alsowitnessed the uprising...