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Published online 28 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010531-5
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New wave machine
Light-based computers could search in a flash.
A new computer design uses interfering light beams to speed up database searches. The computer could perform some tasks a billion times faster than existing electronics-based machines, claim its inventors, Ian Walmsley of the University of Rochester, UK, and his colleagues.
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