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IEEE Internet Computing

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Published Mar 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

The past 40 years witnessed a golden age of computing power improvement predicted by Gordon Moore and colloquially referred to as Moore's Law.Yet, as we reach the limit of Moore's Law, new computational tools and systems must be developed.Current exemplars include, but are not limited to, quantum computing.
DOI
10.1109/mic.2021.3070770

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