«Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing … And It’s Analog
By definition, a computer is a machine that processes and
stores data as ones and zeroes. But the U.S. Department of Defense wants to tear
up that definition and start from scratch.
Through its Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the DoD is funding a new program
called UPSIDE,
short for Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data
Exploitation. Basically, the program will investigate a brand-new way of doing
computing without the digital processors that have come to define computing as
we know it.
The aim is to build computer chips that are a whole lot more
power-efficient than today’s processors — even if they make mistakes every now
and then.
The way Darpa sees it, today’s computers — especially those
used by mobile spy cameras in drones and helicopters that have to do a lot of
image processing — are starting to hit a dead end. The problem isn’t processing.
It’s power, says Daniel Hammerstrom, the Darpa program manager behind UPSIDE.
And it’s been brewing for more than a decade». (+).
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