Looking forward. (updates on 'advanced technologies' that were heralded as major advances when they first appeared)

Four updates on 'advanced technologies' that were heralded as major advanced when they appeared are presented. The technologies are the University of Colorado's fully optical computer; eye-tracking products from Iscan Inc; Athena, a campuswide, Unix-based computing environment develop...

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Published in:	Computerworld 1993-09, Vol.27 (39), p.32
Main Author:	Booker, Ellis
Format:	Magazinearticle
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Carnegie-Mellon University. Center for Machine Translation Colorado, University of Computer industry Computer software industry Foreign Language Translation Software Future Technologies Industrial research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Networks Optoelectronic device Optoelectronic devices Optoelectronics industry Program translators Research and Development Software industry Translation software Translators (Computer programs) Universities and Colleges
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Summary:	Four updates on 'advanced technologies' that were heralded as major advanced when they appeared are presented. The technologies are the University of Colorado's fully optical computer; eye-tracking products from Iscan Inc; Athena, a campuswide, Unix-based computing environment developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); and Janus a speech recognition/translation system at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Machine Translation. The 'proof-of-concept' optical-computer experiment is proceeding at the University of Colorado's Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center (OCSC). Scientists envision eventually dispensing with optical fiber, so that light beams could establish an almost limitless number of connections in free space. Iscan is marketing a $15,000 microcomputer-based system for the disabled, called the Eye-Slaved Pointer System. Athena has become the main academic electronic resource at MIT. Research continues on Janus, an English/German/Japanese speech recognition/translation system.
ISSN:	0010-4841