Nanotechnology will change face of computers'

Nitte: “Quantum computation, and molecular and nanotechnology will radically change the face of computers in the years to come,” said Omid Ansary, senior associate dean of Academic Affairs at Penn State University, Harrisburg, U.S., on Friday.

He was speaking afterwards inaugurating a two-day international conference on “Computer architecture, networking and applications” organised by the NMAM Institute of Research.

Prof. Ansary said that fifth generation computing devices, based on artificial intelligence, were on the whole in development although there were some applications just as voice recognition that were being used however.

“The goal of the fifth generation computing is to develop devices that respond to natural language input and are capable of learning and self-organization,” he added.

The fifth generation included tackling major initiatives in artificial intelligence, speech recognition, signal processing, integrated circuit design, computer graphics, machine vision, high performance computing, to cut a long story short on. Now, the top among current and future trends were in areas just as virtualisation, cloud computing, multi-core processing and Graphic Processing Unit computing. The model of GPU computing was to use a Central Processing Unit and GPU at the same time in a heterogeneous co-processing computing model. The sequential part of the application ran on the CPU and computationally-intensive part was accelerated by the GPU.

Principal of NMAM Institute of Innovation S.Y. Kulkarni welcomed. Vice-principal Niranjan Chiplunkar delivered the introductory remarks. Chancellor of Nitte University N. Vinay Hegde presided.