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NOISE MAY SOLVE ENERGY ISSUE: Hitoshi Tabata at TEDxTodai

1,378 views · Published 26 September 2013 · 12:46 · Indexed 30 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Hitoshi Tabata is a professor at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering. Through his research on expanding the potential of new-age memory devices through researches of ferroelectrics and magnetics, he is particularly interested in the quintessential, natural form of memory storage: DNA. Using materials science research as a backbone and the natural world for inspiration, he is developing a completely new approach to storage. He believes in the potential of "noise" that is random fluctuations in electric signal, for the future of electronics.

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東京大学大学院工学系研究科教授。強誘電体や磁性体を用いた次世代メモリーの開発の中で、自然が創りだした究極のメモリーとも言えるDNAに着目。以来、マテリアルサイエン スをバックボーンに、生命から情報処理や物理構造などの着想を得て、まったく新しい電子デバイスを開発している。電子工学で嫌われるノイズ、すなわち"ゆらぎ"を逆に利用したエレクトロニクスの可能性を語る。

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