Help a guy out?

[RunR31]

So I got a 10 page paper do for one of my computer engineering courses. For now, I just got to pick a topic out. Anyone got any suggestions. About any new computer technologies that are interesting?

[ElanthianSiren]

I'd lean toward criminal justice or genetics research, specifically genetic sequencing and phorensics.

-M

[Drew]

64 bit processing? A lot of info on that at least.

[Wezas]

Yeah, I'd say 64 bit or Cell processors (Playstations are just compact computers too).

[kranfer]

64 bit processing is interesting. However if I was to write a paper I would write on some strange like... Toys with an AI. DIE FURBY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Drezzt]

Or liquid metal cooling? There was a co. that was going to add this to their graphics cards and offer it as an addon for Proc's recently. They were all about the logistics until the company that was furnishing it claimed it was too expensive. But the heat conductivitiy was 65% greater than waterblock cooling.

Or, there's Intel's rush to the dual chip arena, they didnt even have aplan till the P4 architecture busted a gut in May of 04. Even now their offering only sports one FSB. Major guffaws from AMD who has a very well designed dual chip AND board design.

[kranfer]

Originally posted by Drezzt
Or liquid metal cooling? There was a co. that was going to add this to their graphics cards and offer it as an addon for Proc's recently. They were all about the logistics until the company that was furnishing it claimed it was too expensive. But the heat conductivitiy was 65% greater than waterblock cooling.

Or, there's Intel's rush to the dual chip arena, they didnt even have aplan till the P4 architecture busted a gut in May of 04. Even now their offering only sports one FSB. Major guffaws from AMD who has a very well designed dual chip AND board design.

Liquid METAL cooling? The only metal I know of thats liquid at room temperature is Mercury... Do you mean something like... Water cooling? Or Hydrogen or Nitrogen?

[Sean of the Thread]

How about a paper on an oil cooled pc. One with normal oil and one with synthetic.

[Wezas]

Didn't Japan just come out with an actual robot that they're selling to the public? You could research that.

[Drezzt]

Liquid METAL cooling? The only metal I know of thats liquid at room temperature is Mercury... Do you mean something like... Water cooling? Or Hydrogen or Nitrogen?

Actually several metal alloys are liquid at RT.
This particular cooling method was a gallium and indium mixture.

Here's a start:
http://www.physorg.com/news4198.html

[Edited on 9-27-2005 by Drezzt]

[kranfer]

hmm interesting... never knew!

[Janarth]

Originally posted by kranfer
Liquid METAL cooling? The only metal I know of thats liquid at room temperature is Mercury... Do you mean something like... Water cooling? Or Hydrogen or Nitrogen?

Gallium is liquid at room temperature or close to it, melts in your hand. As do some other metals and metal alloys.

[Soulpieced]

If you haven't picked anything yet, quantum computing. Plenty of information openly available.. wave of the future.

[Drezzt]

Originally posted by Soulpieced
If you haven't picked anything yet, quantum computing. Plenty of information openly available.. wave of the future.

I just had to add here...the DISTANT future. Controlling quantum computing with any predictable regularity and for long periods of time in a relatively applicable environment is still many many years away, still its a pretty snazzy thing to study for a paper!

[Latrinsorm]

I hear there's this thing called the Internets.