Published In

Frontiers in Robotics and AI

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2014

Subjects

Electrical engineering

Abstract

What makes a new paradigm or technology promising? What should science, research, and industry invest money in? Is there a life after CMOS electronics? And will the vacuum tube be back? While one cannot predict the future, one can still learn from the past. Over the last decade, unconventional computing developed into a major new research area with the goal to look beyond existing paradigms. In this Perspective, we reflect on the current state of the field and propose a set of questions that anyone working in unconventional computing should be able to answer in order to assess the potential of new paradigms early on.

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Copyright © 2016 Teuscher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Originally published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2014.00010

DOI

10.3389/frobt.2014.00010

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http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/17954

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