Re: computer-go: Pattern matching

["Blue Thunder Somogyi" <blue@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may be true about current computer technologies - theoretical limits
are being encroached upon every day - another couple of orders of magnitude
and hard drives will be storing data at the atomic level - experimental
circuit designs already have electrons traveling down conduits single-file.
The only place to turn once semi-conductor based computer technology is
"perfected" (I'm just using this word to describe above - I don't believe
this will happen) is more massive & massively parallel designs, which,
fortunately, Go is well suited to.  However, who here has the mega-bucks it
takes to russle up a Cray (or it's modern equivelent).

However, if you keep your eye on the bleeding edge, the marriage of two
burgeoning technologies may develop into computers that are orders of orders
of magnitude more powerful - Quantum processing and Holographic data
storage.

Quantum processing has the ability to process a set of data completely in
parallel, while Holographic storage is able to retreive data completely
non-linearly.  Talk about your staggering throughput...

Anyhow - just food for thought...
BTS
blue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: Antti Huima <huima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: computer-go: Pattern matching


> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Bing Lu wrote:
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> > I think it's impossible for a computer to beat a pro 9d
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> That was thought about chess grandmasters also some decades ago.
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> Antti Huima
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