The Photonic Computer uses only light to collect, retrieve and process data. This makes it operate much faster than electronically based computers, because information and processing occurs at the speed of light. Another key benefit of the photonic computer is that less energy is used to power the system and it does not have the same interference problems that make it difficult for current chip manufacturers to make smaller transistors. This is because light energy does not interact with other photons. The processor itself is a laser inscribed piece of crystal made in the laboratory, and the current system uses only a huge amount of RAM to store information. ALthough this system is complete, it is still very simple and not very useful. The Photonic Computer is also different from a traditional computer in many other ways. First, the hardwired operating system is laser etched into the crystal. This means that the computer itself is not susceptable to computer viruses that effect operating systems. Second, the only way to upgrade the operating system is to get a new processing crystal. The machinery itself to etch the crystals precisely for a modern computer system is also not yet available. This also requires a program that translates the operating system software into the etched crystal that represents it. Daniel Nase invented the first Photonic Computer in June of 1998 while attending the Navy's Nuclear Power Training Command in Orlando, FL as a Nuclear Electronics Technician.
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http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19526136.400-speedoflight-computing-comes-a-step-closer.html
IEEE Archives Daniel Nase, Inventor, June 1998
About the Author:Daniel Nase: Serial Entrepreneur, Writer, & Inventor
Daniel Nase is the CEO and Managing Director of Infinity Group in beautiful southern California. Infinity Group consists of Infinity Financial Services, Real Estate Pros, World Travel Alliance. Infinity Productions, Infinity Home Improvement, Infinity Home Mortgages, Nase Consulting Group, Sunrise Charity Foundation, Classy Transporation and the Wealth Building Foundation. Daniel has built and designed numerous companies and hired, trained and managed literally thousands of contactors and employees.
At age 15 Daniel attended Pacific Lutheran University in the Advance College Program and spent a lot of his time reading graduate papers in the university’s library. Many of his instructors and mentors were amazed with his ability to think outside the box in business, medicine, mathematics, chemistry and physics. Daniel started working on advanced calculus, Riemann equations and theoretical physics while he was attending Washington High School. He also participated in Air Force JROTC and earned a private pilots license through Clover Park Technical College.
Daniel joined the military at age 16 with parent permission and worked as an Apache / Chinook Helicopter Mechanic for several years before being recommended for an elite officer program in the Nuclear Field. For three years he was engaged in the Navy’s rigorous training program in Advanced Electronics and Nuclear Physics in Orlando Florida. He graduated at the top of his class and spent 9 months in the Mediterranean before being honorably discharged.
Daniel was promoted faster than any other manager in history at Primerica for his strong work ethics and strategic planning ability and was regarded by his direct managers as a Senior Vice President in Training for consistently recruiting and training 300 new contractors per month. Daniel is also an expert negotiator and built multiple strategic alliances with large companies including All Fund Mortgage and USA Holdings – Fixed Division as an EVP.
Daniel designed and built the AMTECH Thermonuclear Converter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in July of 1997. This nuclear device provides electricity to deep space satellites and was created during the Pathfinder Mission. He also worked on X-ray tubes, electroplating, making silicon carbide crystals, electronic drafting, and generating 3D images in Silicon using two scanning lasers. He earned this prestigious summer internship through the MSEP program with Scott Minnix at the University of Washington and Linda Rodgers at NASA.
In 1997 and 1998 Daniel helped build a mainframe computer from scratch as part of the Work Study Program. He also learned basic AutoCAD and networked all of the computers in the University’s four-story Astrophysics building. After he built the mainframe, Daniel ran tests and recorded events in the University of Washington’s fusion reactor and also worked on the RAM Accelerator.
Daniel took a non-executive role in Infinity Group to work as an Installation / Retrofit Engineer III for several years in the semiconductor industry. This is were he applied his training in the military by doing work in network engineering, applications engineering, robotics, UV optics, pneumatics and advanced electronics troubleshooting for KLA-Tencor Corp. He was responsible for installing and aligning Starlight and Lightning series reticle inspection systems throughout the world. This gave him the opportunity to improve his speaking ability in German, Japanese and French.
Daniel is a very talented Strategic Planner and possesses a unique gift for Corporate Finance and solving complex business problems. Daniel actively performed as a Business Consultant with Nase Consulting in a wide array of industries over the last five years with focuses mainly on Project Management, Human Resources and Corporate Finance. Mainly, he assisted his mentors with PhD’s because he hadn’t earned his MBA yet. Daniel was also trained as a tax planner, stock broker and financial advisor at American Express. He realized that direct sales was not his passion and decided to take a different career path as a Project Manager, HR Manager or Executive with a great company.
Recently, Daniel worked as the Managing Director in Training for K Group, he assisted the current Managing Director with overseeing global operations in the US, China, India, and Singapore. The holdings of K Group included two universities, an enterprise software / IT company, a textbook publisher, a movie productions company and a non-profit association for international businesses.
Daniel would best be described as a very creative, visionary leader. He is loyal, organized, self-motivated and is both highly capable of leading, managing and implementing large projects as he is able to pay attention to details and develop highly effective business strategies in Marketing, Operations, Finance, and R&D.
Daniel has no kids and enjoys listing companies on the NASDAQ and funding humanitarian projects like eliminating world hunger, cancer, disease and disability. Daniel also likes to travel for free with his friends.
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