Optical Inference Machines

Abstract

We have been investigating an optical inference machine based on mapped-template architecture. During this first year, two subsystems for use in our study of this machine were developed: (1) a portable electron-beam-addressed microchannel spatial light modulator (e-beam MSLM) and (2) a computerized control system for the architecture. This report describes the mapped-template inference machine and the development of its components in the context of the overall system architecture. Keywords: Optical artificial intelligence, Optical inference engines, Optical logic, Optical information, Processing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 27, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197880

Entities

People

  • Cardinal Warde

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cartography
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Acquisition
  • Databases
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electron Beams
  • Expert Systems
  • Inference Engines
  • Language
  • Logic Devices
  • Optical Modulators
  • Photodetectors
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

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  • AI & ML
  • Directed Energy
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