IBM announced today a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing.

Point of Light: nanofocusing in plasmonic waveguides
Engineers create a device that can focus light into a point of just a few nanometers, with applications in computing, communications, and imaging.
Bond for Future Ships, iMacs Has ONR Roots
A state-of-the-art welding process refined for use in naval shipbuilding by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has crossed over to the world of computing.
Designer nanocrystals find funding
W. M. Keck Foundation funds David Mazziotti, Greg Engel, and Dmitri Talapin to research manipulate of nanocrystal properties.

Quantum optics wins researchers Nobel Prize in Physics for 2012
David Wineland and Serge Haroche win award from work on light-matter interaction.

Could silicene be the future of electronics?
The next generation of computing could be performed with silicene, an atomically thin form of silicon which could revolutionize electronics.
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