• DocumentCode
    1369982
  • Title

    Need for critical assessment

  • Author

    Landauer, Rolf

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    10/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1637
  • Lastpage
    1639
  • Abstract
    Adventurous technological proposals are subject to inadequate critical assessment. It is the proponents who organize meetings and special issues. Optical logic, mesoscopic switching devices and quantum parallelism are used to illustrate this problem
  • Keywords
    mesoscopic systems; optical logic; quantum interference devices; critical assessment; meetings; mesoscopic switching devices; optical logic; quantum parallelism; special issues; technological proposals; Electron optics; History; Logic devices; Optical computing; Optical devices; Paper technology; Proposals; Semiconductor devices; Semiconductor lasers; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/16.536808
  • Filename
    536808