HANCOXPJ@MAIL.ASTON.AC.UK (10/22/87)
From: Dr P J Hancox <HANCOXPJ@uk.ac.aston>
Dept: Computer Science
Tel No: 021 359 3611 X4652
Aston University
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Seminar
Wednesday 28 October 1987 at 3.00 pm in Room 550, Main Building
Computing in the year 2001
Brian Oakley
Director, The Alvey Directorate, London
The key to the advance in computing over the last 20 years has been the
inexorable increase in the speed, power and memory capacity of the silicon
chip. Will this continue and, if so, for how long? The talk will consider
the performance of the integrated circuit in the year 2001, and the
resulting power of the processor on a chip. Well before the turn of the
century multi-processors will have become common place, so that system
power will far exceed the individual processor power. And what will this
power be used to do? The talk will end by considering the new applications,
particularly the spread of so-called AI applications such as Expert
Systems, Natural Language, Voice and Image Processing.
Chairman: Dr B Gay.
Enquiries:
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Computer Science, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom
+ 44 21 359 3611 extn 5313