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[Keith Jenkins]

                               MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                    FOURTH TOPICAL MEETING ON OPTICAL COMPUTING

                              Salt Lake City Marriott
                                Salt Lake City, Utah

                                  March 4-6, 1991

                            Optical Society of America

                  ABSTRACT AND SUMMARY DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 14, 1990

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SCOPE

The Optical Computing topical meeting will consist of invited papers
and both oral and poster contributed papers.  Contributions are
solicited in all areas of research in materials, devices,
architectures and algorithms relevant to optical computing.  Topics of
interest include:

1.   Optical interconnections and buses for computing.

2.   Optical and photonic computing systems, architectures, models
     and algorithms, digital or analog.

3.   Hybrid optical/electronic processors.

4.   Optical "neural" processors, including optical associative
     memories.

5.   Optical memory.

6.   Massively parallel architectures for optical implementation.

7.   Spatial light modulators and other devices for optical
     computing.

8.   Nonlinear optical phenomena of potential use in computing.

9.   Nonlinear optical, electro-optical, and opto-electronic components.

10.  Areas of application of the above components and processors.

11.  Fundamental physical and computational properties relating to
     the capabilities and limitations of optical computers.

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CONFERENCE COCHAIRS:
C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute

Sing H. Lee
University of California, San Diego

PROGRAM CHAIR:
B. Keith Jenkins
University of Southern California

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INVITED TALKS (Partial List)

P. Bruce Berra
Syracuse University
"Optical Database Machines"

K. Kasahara
NEC Corporation
"Progress in Arrays of Opto-electronic Bistable Devices and Sources"

Bart Kosko
University of Southern California
"Adaptive Fuzzy Systems"

Demetri Psaltis
California Institute of Technology
"Learning in Optical Neural Networks".

Wilfrid B. Veldkamp
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
"Binary Optics and Applications"

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RELATED MEETINGS

Four topical meetings are being held in Salt Lake City during the two-
week period of March 4-15, 1991.  The meetings are:  Optical
Computing, Photonic Switching, Picosecond Electronics and
Optoelectronics, and Quantum Wells for Optics and Optoelectronics.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact

   Optical Society of America
   Meetings Department
   2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW
   Washington, DC 20036  USA
   Tel. (202) 223-0920
   Fax  (202) 416-6100