Application of Optical Computing to Problems with Symbolic Computations

Abstract

Research efforts identify some critical operations of symbolic computing. Of these operation, two primitives--central to the difference between symbolic and numeric computation--appeared ideally suited for optical implementation because of their parallel structure and local simplicity. These primitive operations are compare-and-exchange found in relational databases and pattern matching in inferencing systems. In this quarter, we proposed optical implementations of the compare-and-exchange operation for relational database applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 1987
Accession Number
ADA181218

Entities

People

  • Brian G. Kushner

Organizations

  • Braddock Dunn & McDonald

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Computations
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Databases
  • Electronic Circuits
  • Engineering
  • Logic
  • Logic Gates
  • Networks
  • Optoelectronic Devices
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Polarization
  • Relational Databases
  • Waveplates

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design