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Computer and Internet
Technology
Development and its
Impact on Other
Technologies
Dr. H. E. (Buster) Dunsmore
Purdue University
Department of Computer Sciences
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• Nature of Computer technology and
Internet technology has changed a lot in
the past 10 years and will change a lot
in the next 10 years
• Most of you in 1991 had not even heard
of Internet, World-Wide Web, Networks,
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA),
Windows NT, Linux
• These are all now part of Computer
Technology and Internet technology
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• What will we be talking about in 2011?
• What new Computer and Internet
Technology is being developed that will
be commonplace in a few years?
• Some things seem promising, but may
become equivalent of Betamax and 8-
track tapes
• Look at some areas of Computer and
Internet Technology development
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Networking Technology
Power-Line Networking
Way to connect
computers in home
or office using
electrical wiring
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• More convenient than phone lines
• Connect computer to network through the
outlet that provides power
• Data travels through electrical wiring
• Requires no new wiring and adds no cost
to electric bill
• Power-line networking is inexpensive
method for connecting computers in
different places in home or office
Power-Line Networking
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Wireless Networking
• Creates network by sending infrared or radio
signals between computers
• Better than Power-line networking; some
computers are not “plugged in” to electrical
outlet
• Laptop with wireless network card is
completely portable throughout home or
office
• IrDA (Infrared Direct Access) is standard for
devices to communicate using infrared light
pulses
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• Infrared devices must be in direct line of
sight with each other (like TV remote…
which uses same infrared technology)
• Infrared is almost always “one to one”
technology
• Radio signals better because no line of
sight requirement and ability to broadcast
to multiple recipients
Wireless Networking
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Bluetooth
• Bluetooth is new standard being developed
by a group of electronics manufacturers
• Will allow any sort of electronic equipment to
communicate with each other
• Can be used among computers, keyboard,
mouse, printer, headphone, cell phone
• Bluetooth-like radio communications should
take place of wires or infrared signals for
connecting devices
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Bluetooth
• Very small radio module to be built into
each device
• Wireless: No need for cables or cords to
any device
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• Inexpensive: Should add only about $5-10
to price of product
• Simple: Devices find one another and
strike up conversation without any work on
your part
• Why is it called Bluetooth?
• Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark
around the turn of the last millenium
• He united Denmark and part of Norway
into a single kingdom
Bluetooth
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• Satellite Internet access already
commonplace
• Satellites orbit at several hundreds of miles
above Earth
• Imagine airplane-like device at
approximately 60,000 feet
• Aircraft will be undisturbed by inclement
weather and will be flying well above
commercial air traffic
Airborne Internet
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Airborne Internet
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• All satellite benefits without some of the
problems
• Consumers would get connections
comparable to Digital Subscriber Line
(DSL)
• High-speed wireless Internet connection
by placing aircraft in fixed pattern over city
• Could be lightweight planes (possibly
unmanned) or blimps
Airborne Internet
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• Airborne Internet will function much like
satellite-based Internet access, but without
time delay
• Cost advantage over satellites – aircraft
can be deployed easily – do not have to be
launched into space
• Airborne Internet could even complement
satellite and ground-based networks, not
replace them
Airborne Internet
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• Impact: Possibility of constant connection to
network anywhere, any time
• Benefit: Ease of connecting all computers
and related devices
• Challenges:
How to make most efficient use of the
computing power, software, and tools always
available
How to build the most useful software
and tools
Impact and Opportunity?
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Internet Technology
• Access over the Internet to applications
and services that would otherwise have to
be located on one’s own personal
computer
• Email, text editor, financial modeling
software, Computer Aided Design (CAD)
software, simulation software,…..
Application Service Provider
(ASP)
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• Centralized data storage, which will
increase efficiency and ease of access to
information, as well as synchronization of
information among users and machines
• Wherever you are, that is your computer!
Storage Service Provider (SSP)
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About 120 universities and 25 corporate
sponsors are working on better Internet
infrastructure “Internet 2”
The Next Generation Internet
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The Next Generation Internet
• Larger bandwidth
• Faster speeds
• Better reliability
• Better security
• Better compression techniques (smaller files
to be transmitted)
• Caching – leaving copies around closer to the
point of need
• All developments will eventually become part
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Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6)
Today’s Internet uses
Internet Protocol
Version 4 (IPv4) –
approximately 20
years old
Internet Protocol
Version 6 (IPv6)
(also called IPng)
will eventually
replace IPv4
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• IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as
limited number of available IPv4 addresses
• IPv6 goes from 32 to 128 bits per address
• If whole Earth was a beach, more than enough IP
addresses for every grain of sand ... hope that
will be enough
• IPv6 also routes messages better, auto-
configures for missing computers, and includes
security components for encryption and
authentication
Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6)
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Decision Support Systems,
Expert Systems
If Internet becomes repository of all
knowledge, how best to use it?
Decision Support
Systems (DSS)
access data,
sophisticated
analytical models,
user-friendly interfaces
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Decision Support Systems,
Expert Systems
• Can make repetitive, routine decisions with
known algorithms
• Can provide alternatives and possible
outcomes for more elaborate decisions
• Expert Systems (ES) capture decision-
making rules used by experts
• Interaction with human user and available
data evolved toward decision
• Neural networks can imitate DSS and ES and
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• Impact: Internet will provide fast access to
enormous amount of information and tools for using
that information
• Benefit: Immediate access for all kinds of
information in a variety of formats (text, sound,
image, video)
• Ability to make decisions based on “all” available
information… not just subset
• Decision tools that represent best wisdom of all experts
• Challenge: How to sift through enormous quantity
of information and tools available to decide what to
use in any given situation
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• Researchers have recently made breakthroughs in
developing displays out of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET)
• Thin, flexible, rugged plastic that you can bend, roll
up, fold, or form into practically any shape
Consumer Computer
Technology
Plastic Displays
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Plastic Displays
• Mass production of plastic displays is
approximately five years away
• Applications could include notebook and
desktop displays, hand-held appliances
• Also, wearable displays sewn into clothing,
and paper thin electronic books and
newspapers
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Electronic Digital Paper
• Developed at
Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center
(PARC),
electronic paper is
new kind of
display
• Somewhere
between paper
and conventional
computer screen
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• Like paper, it is thin, lightweight, and flexible
• Like computer display, it is dynamic and
rewritable
• Wide range of potential applications,
including:
• Electronic paper newspapers offering breaking
news, incoming sports scores, and up to the
minute stock quotes, even as paper is being read
• Electronic paper magazines that continually
update with breaking information and make use of
animated images or movie pictures
• Electronic paper textbooks, which could be
updated as technology changes

• Electronic paper utilizes new display
technology called gyricon
• A gyricon sheet is thin layer of transparent plastic
in which millions of small beads, like toner
particles, are randomly dispersed
• Beads are bichromal, with hemispheres of
contrasting color
• Under influence of voltage applied to surface of
sheet, beads rotate to present one colored side or
the other to the viewer
• Image will persist until new voltage patterns are
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Power Paper
• Computers and other electronic devices
becoming thinner and thinner
• Soon laptop computer could be as thin as a sheet
of paper
• Power supplies must slim down as well
• Power Paper, an Israel-based company, has
developed paper-thin battery technology
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Power Paper
• Power electronic devices, games, greeting
cards, smart cards, luggage tags, medical
devices
• Imagine smart tickets to sporting events to
avoid counterfeiting and give directions to
seat
• Could be very useful in computerized clothing
and wearable computers
• Power Paper cell will be one-half millimeter
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Printable Computers
Researchers
developing ink-
based, plastic
processor
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Printable Computers
• Printable computer components not designed
to replace silicon (about 100 times slower)
• Plastic offers some benefits over silicon
• Silicon is rigid, while plastic chips are
flexible
• Will lead to simple computers to give
intelligence to everyday objects
• Could be integrated into clothes, food labels,
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Wearable Computers
• Obvious applications like
hearing aids with sound
enhancement software
• “Glasses” with multi-
informational display
about what is being
seen, where you are
• Wrist computers, PDAs,
cell phones
• Next step is computerized clothing
• Including computers in standard clothing items
like shoes, pants, shirts, jackets, belts…even
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Wearable Computers
Uses include….
• Health related – monitor blood pressure,
pulse rate, blood sugar, useful for life
threatening conditions that need continual
monitoring
• Navigation – directions, maps, airline
information, restaurant and hotel information
• Safety and security – connections to
police, fire, medical, auto towing and repair
• Entertainment – music, news, video,
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Wearable Computers
• Some of these devices already making their
way into consumer market
• Working to integrate computers and related
devices directly into clothing, so that they are
virtually invisible
• Interaction via sensors, all fabric keypads,
speakers, voice recognition receivers, thin
light-emitting diode (LED) monitors, flat
screen (plastic) displays, holographic
projectors
• Another step in making computers and
devices portable without having to carry and
manipulate plethora of gadgets
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Computers in Every
Imaginable Item
• Appliances – Home security, heating/air
conditioning, refrigerator, oven, dishwasher,
lighting system, entertainment systems,
washer, dryer, garage door opener,
“watering” systems
• Vehicles – cars, bicycles, lawn mowers,
snow blowers, chain saws
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Voice Recognition
• Many of above will operate via voice
commands
• Next 3-5 years will bring major advances
in speech recognition
• Voice is converted into phonemes (basic
elements of speech)
• English language has approximately 50
phonemes
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Voice Recognition
• Phonemes compared to dictionary of words
stored via phonemes
• Words then translated into computer commands
like “Display nearest gas station?”
• Limited vocabulary systems and systems trained
to particular person’s speech will be very fast and
precise
• Voice recognition requires tremendous
storage and processing power – no problem
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• Impact: Every conceivable device can have
computer embedded in it
• Benefit: Any mundane activity (like
monitoring supply of food in refrigerator) or
complex activity (like amplifying only specific
sound frequencies in hearing aid) can be
done by computer
• Challenge: How to design most useful
cadre of consumer computers to aid without
overwhelming us humans
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• Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM)
has potential to store more data, access data
faster, use less power than current memory
technologies
• Could eliminate computer “boot up” sequence
• Today’s memory Dynamic RAM (DRAM)
needs to be supplied with constant current to
store bits of data
Computer Processors and
Storage Technology
Magnetic Ram
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Magnetic Ram
• If current turned off, everything has to
be stored again
• In MRAM, small amount of electricity
needed only to switch polarity (1 or 0) of
each memory cell on the chip…not to
maintain that value
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Holographic Storage
Technologies
CDs, DVDs, and magnetic storage all store bits
of information on the surface of a recording
medium
To increase storage capabilities, new optical
storage method, called holographic memory,
will go beneath the surface and use volume
of recording medium for storage
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Extreme-Ultraviolet
Lithography (EUVL) Chips
• Current silicon technology used to make
microprocessors will begin to reach its limit
around 2005
• Other technologies necessary to cram more
transistors onto silicon to create more
powerful chips
• Extreme-ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) – way
to extend life of silicon at least until the end of
the decade
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Extreme-Ultraviolet
Lithography (EUVL) Chips
• Using extreme-ultraviolet light to carve
transistors in silicon wafers will lead to
microprocessors as much as 100 times faster
than today’s most powerful chips
• Memory chips with similar increases in
storage capacity
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DNA Computers
• Microprocessors made of
silicon will eventually reach
their limits of speed and
miniaturization
• Chip makers need new material to produce faster
computing speeds
• Millions of natural supercomputers exist in living
organisms
• DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules have potential to
perform calculations many times faster than the world’s
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DNA Computers
• DNA might one day be integrated on a
computer chip to create a so-called biochip
that will push computers even faster
• DNA molecules have already been harnessed
to perform complex mathematical problems
• Large supply of DNA makes it a cheap
resource
• DNA’s key advantage is that it will make
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DNA Computers
• One pound of DNA has the capacity to store
more information than all electronic
computers ever built
• Teardrop-sized DNA computer will be more
powerful than world’s current most powerful
supercomputer
• Unlike conventional “linear” computers, DNA
computers perform calculations in parallel
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• Impact: Computers will be smaller, faster,
quicker with enormous amounts of storage
capacity
• Benefit: Any imaginable task can be
programmed to be executed in “real time”
(like monitoring aspects of nuclear reactor)
• Challenge: What is the most cost-effective
use of these technologies?
How can we keep the “smaller, faster,
quicker” development going?
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• Research on computer
use for vision-impaired
leading to touch screens
with digitally-controlled
raised surfaces
• Digital Scent Synthesizer
Some “Far Out” Potential
Future Developments
The Forgotten Senses
(Touch, Smell, Taste)
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The Forgotten Senses
(Touch, Smell, Taste)
• Indexed thousands of smells based on chemical
structure and place on scent spectrum
• Each scent is coded and digitized into small file
• Digital file is embedded in Web content or email
(much like image file)
• User may request scent or may be unleashed
automatically
• Create thousands of everyday scents with small
cartridge containing 128 primary odors
• Similar research going on in digital taste
synthesis
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Robotics
• Because of advances in processors, memory,
decision support systems, expert systems,
sensors….
• Today’s crude robots will become “thinking”
machines, capable of behavior that mimics
reason, emotion, common sense, speech,
vision, locomotion
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