“In the not too distant future a device the size of a sugar cube will exist able to record an entire life time of human memories.” So says Professor Nigel Shadbolt, President of the British Computer Society, at the Memories for Life colloquium held Tuesday at the British Library, writes Chris Mellor of Techworld.
The event brought together a diverse range of academics in a bid to understand how memory works and to develop the technologies to enhance it. It has been recognized as a Grand Challenge for computing, by the U.K. Computing Research Committee. Such challenges are international in scope and promise revolutionary advances.
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