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In article <3300005@uiucdcsm> grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>	I heard of an effort underway at Caltech/Jpl to inter-connect an
>array of computers use a hologram placed above an NxN array of CPUs.
>Each CPU has a diode laser which is used to communicate with other CPUs.
>This (allegedly) provides total inter-connect without wires.
>

I remember hearing at a seminar that Goodman at Stanford used a technique
similar to the above to distribute the clock signal to various parts
of a machine, thus eliminating the clock skew between components.  Sorry
I don't have any references to this work.

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