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JournalISSN: 0018-8646

Ibm Journal of Research and Development 

IBM
About: Ibm Journal of Research and Development is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): IBM & Cache. Over the lifetime, 3227 publications have been published receiving 165231 citations.


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TL;DR: Two simple, but representative, models of bistable devices are subjected to a more detailed analysis of switching kinetics to yield the relationship between speed and energy dissipation, and to estimate the effects of errors induced by thermal fluctuations.
Abstract: It is argued that computing machines inevitably involve devices which perform logical functions that do not have a single-valued inverse. This logical irreversibility is associated with physical irreversibility and requires a minimal heat generation, per machine cycle, typically of the order of kT for each irreversible function. This dissipation serves the purpose of standardizing signals and making them independent of their exact logical history. Two simple, but representative, models of bistable devices are subjected to a more detailed analysis of switching kinetics to yield the relationship between speed and energy dissipation, and to estimate the effects of errors induced by thermal fluctuations.

3,629 citations

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Charles H. Bennett1
TL;DR: This result makes plausible the existence of thermodynamically reversible computers which could perform useful computations at useful speed while dissipating considerably less than kT of energy per logical step.
Abstract: The usual general-purpose computing automaton (e.g.. a Turing machine) is logically irreversible- its transition function lacks a single-valued inverse. Here it is shown that such machines may he made logically reversible at every step, while retainillg their simplicity and their ability to do general computations. This result is of great physical interest because it makes plausible the existence of thermodynamically reversible computers which could perform useful computations at useful speed while dissipating considerably less than kT of energy per logical step. In the first stage of its computation the logically reversible automaton parallels the corresponding irreversible automaton, except that it saves all intermediate results, there by avoiding the irreversible operation of erasure. The second stage consists of printing out the desired output. The third stage then reversibly disposes of all the undesired intermediate results by retracing the steps of the first stage in backward order (a process which is only possible because the first stage has been carried out reversibly), there by restoring the machine (except for the now-written output tape) to its original condition. The final machine configuration thus contains the desired output and a reconstructed copy of the input, but no other undesired data. The foregoing results are demonstrated explicitly using a type of three-tape Turing machine. The biosynthesis of messenger RNA is discussed as a physical example of reversible computation.

3,497 citations

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TL;DR: In the exploratory research described, the complete text of an article in machine-readable form is scanned by an IBM 704 data-processing machine and analyzed in accordance with a standard program.
Abstract: Excerpts of technical papers and magazine articles that serve the purposes of conventional abstracts have been created entirely by automatic means. In the exploratory research described, the complete text of an article in machine-readable form is scanned by an IBM 704 data-processing machine and analyzed in accordance with a standard program. Statistical information derived from word frequency and distribution is used by the machine to compute a relative measure of significance, first for individual words and then for sentences. Sentences scoring highest in significance are extracted and printed out to become the "auto-abstract."

3,094 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, two machine learning procedures have been investigated in some detail using the game of checkers, and enough work has been done to verify the fact that a computer can be programmed so that it will lear...
Abstract: Two machine-learning procedures have been investigated in some detail using the game of checkers. Enough work has been done to verify the fact that a computer can be programmed so that it will lear...

2,845 citations

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Leo Esaki1, Raphael Tsu1
TL;DR: The study of superlattices and observations of quantum mechanical effects on a new physical scale may provide a valuable area of investigation in the fieId of semiconductors.
Abstract: We consider a one-dimensional periodic potential, or "superlattice," in monocrystalline semiconductors formbeyd a periodic variation of alloy composition or of impurity density introduced during epitaxial growth. If the period of a superlattice, of the order of 100A, is shorter than the electron mean free path, a series of narrow allowed and forbidden bands is expected duet o the subdivision of the Brillouin zone into a series of minizones. If the scattering time of electrons meets a threshold condition, the combined effect of the narrow energy band and the narrow wave-vector zone makes it possible for electrons to be excited with moderate electric fields to an energy and momentum beyond an inflection point in the E-k relation; this results ina negative differential conductance in the direction of the superlattice. The study of superlattices and observations of quantum mechanical effects on a new physical scale may provide a valuable area of investigation in the fieId of semiconductors.

2,569 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202038
201932
201837
201745
201647
201551