Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2015 Annual Meeting of the APS Mid-Atlantic Section
Volume 60, Number 14
Friday–Sunday, October 23–25, 2015; Morgantown, West Virginia
Session AD1: Banquet |
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Chair: Aldo Romero, West Virginia University Room: Waterfront Hotel Salon E |
Saturday, October 24, 2015 7:00PM - 8:30PM |
AD1.00001: Banquet |
Saturday, October 24, 2015 8:30PM - 9:30PM |
AD1.00002: Powering the Internet in the International Year of Light Invited Speaker: Wayne Knox Recently, it has been realized that the exponential rise of data transmitted on The Internet is taking an increasingly significant amount of electrical power, as a result of the necessity to switch, distribute, and process all the data. Optical technology created this problem by enabling almost limitless transmission of high capacity data through optical fibers globally over ultralong distances. In the 2015 International Year of Light, we pause to ponder how this happened, where we are going, and consider the ironic proposal that Optics could also offer a solution to the problem. Is this really a problem ? We are all used to getting text messages like: ``Warning -- you have used more than 90{\%} of your monthly data allowance...'' Perhaps someday we will get a big text message from Planet Earth saying ``Warning -- you are using more than 90{\%} of the global electrical power generation capacity to power your Internet.'' Of course, we will not stop using more and more data every month, and we won't take away all of the SmartPhones from our children, so clearly something needs to be done about this. But seriously, what good is having terabit per second access to our houses if we can't run our refrigerators anymore ? [Preview Abstract] |
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