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Today, humans are the primary source/synch of data. To move beyond that role, computers must be better connected to the world around them and to each other. Researchers are focused on new types of sensors and actuators, especially Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and biotech using precision capabilities to drive MEMS to their limits.
Goal: Enable computers to sense things that are dry and solid state and things that are wet, such as biological materials.
Result: Vastly expand the range of places where computers can be installed and networked and enable a variety of important wetware applications in areas such as health, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and refineries.
Getting Physical with billions of devices will relieve human beings of burdensome I/O devices and vastly expand the flow of raw data into information systems.
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