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I have heard that in about 20 years Silicon Valley will run dry, and computer power will shift or end unless a new material is found for computer chips. Is that true? If so, what material do you think will be used for computers of the future?
Yes, the ability to make silicon based chips ever faster and smaller has certain phsical limits. Galium Arsinide is a strong contender. There are also biological technologies based on DNA or protines. The most interesting idea is Quantum Computing. This is based on using the wierdness of quantum machanics to build a computer. There are many other idea's being looked into. Hope this helps. (sorry for the delay, I just got back from vacation)
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Chuck Cosby
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I can answer questions about speech recognition and natural language understanding. I am particulary strong in knowedge based natural langauge techniques. I cannot answer questions about robotics, nueral nets, prolog, or vision recognition - just speech and natural language.
Experience
I have spent 25 years developing natural language software products. I have never developed speech systems, but I have developed sophisticated interfaces from natural language to speech. I have been working with speech recognition systems also for 25 years.
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