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Joe Touch: An Optical Turing Machine

Speaker: Joe Touch, USC / ISI

Talk Title: An Optical Turing Machine

Abstract: The Optical Turing Machine (OTM) is our effort to design and implement a digital device that processes network data in an optical multibit/symbol modulation format. Its goal is to support high-speed computation using an encoding capable of high-speed, long-distance transmission. OTM explores the unification of communication and computation, and investigates the nature of Turing-equivalent computation. This talk introduces the OTM approach and discusses its key challenges. We discuss our current OTM projects, including the extension of our earlier all-optical packet hopcount decrement to multibit encoding, and the design and implementation of the world's first all-optical Internet checksum.

The OTM project is supported by grants from USC/ISI's New Research Initiatives (NRI) and the NSF Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).

For those of you that are unable to attend in person, please use the following webcast link to view:

http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d

Host: John Wroclawski

Webcast: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d

Location: ISI 11th Floor Large Conference Room

WebCast Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=83c9a7910ac34185b9e2c61eacff55ec1d

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair