The Washington Post has published an article indicating that a team at the University of Rochester has demonstrated a means for harnessing light waves in a way that could prove useful for information processing. Here's a quote:
Optical image processing could allow automated comparisons of facial images from security cameras to images maintained by law enforcement officials. It could also become a valuable tool for scientists studying subtle changes in microbes or other kinds of cells over time.
Optical processing also is likely to ease the storage of holographic images directly on hardware and could lead to breakthroughs in cryptography, the science of making and breaking codes.
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