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From: chris@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Chris Arps)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Optical Computers
Message-ID: <218@ncmicro.lonestar.org>
Date: 5 Nov 90 19:40:50 GMT
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I rember Scientific American running a pretty good article on 
optical computing about 8? months ago.  It showed an experiment
where a holographic database of human faces could be used to
locate an input face.  The entire process was done optically 
and basically instantaneously.  Even more interesting was that
even with a partial face input, the optical loop was able
to resolve the face.  Imagine a database with social security
numbers that could be fed by a video camera, you could then
look up every person that came into your place of business.
Americas most wanted better look out!