Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

R. Stanley Williams from HP Labs gives a keynote presentation on memristor technology at the UC San Diego Center for Networked System's Winter Research Review 2010.

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[NSResponder]

It's great to know that Carly Fiorina didn't completely destroy HP Research.

-jcr

[EasternMerchant]

we can have technical meetings any day! But, this is food for the soul!

[Pullarao Tegulla]

good electrical topic



[Svein Engelsgjerd]

If you can have a hybrid system that basically can switch between storage and logic on the fly you can then in theory simply increase the number of "cpu's" as you need them in exchange for some free memory. And if you get low on memory you can automatically convert the CPU back thus sacrificing performance but keeping the system running. I like this :)

[Jacko Bienbe]

As he says "memristance obeys an inverse square law: memristance is a million times as important at the nanometer scale as it is at the micrometer scale, and it's essentially unobservable at the millimeter scale and larger. Memristance has been hidden in plain sight all along."

[zodiark111]

Why would you cut off the questioning? That's like one of the best parts.

[bighands69]

There is many software (computer scientists) that are working on parallel computation and many other unusual computational architectures that are not in the public eye.

What may happen with this technology is that it will give a new generation of people coming into the industry a chance and the people who are not willing to change will be swept aside.

Programmers of the future will need to be physics based computational engineers so as to get the best out of technological systems.

[Dave Parker]

Memristor is too complicated to be the missing linear circuit element. The "slactor" is more likely a better fit. A "resistor" converts electrical energy into "heat" and dissipates this energy to the outside, it's a device built on "irreversible" phenomena. A "slactor" converts electrical energy into "heat" and stores this energy, it's a device built on "reversible" *ThermoElectric* phenomena. So, a "slactor" is like a "capacitor" or "inductor", the latter two storing "electric" and "magnetic".

[DarkAngel63725267]

Starting to read about memristors. I found it a bit confusing at the beginning...

[blahdelablah]

@utubesqueeze

"Everything they know is about to be changed but its the electrical engineers who will get all the glory!"

That's just giving the glory to the people due to receive it!