Clark

The current growth of data storage is unsustainable using conventional storage means. And the anticipated growth of AI simply exacerbates the issue. Our group has developed a radically new method of storing data. It is a write-once system thus applicable only to the 30% of data that is permanently stored. Standing Wave Storage is based on a rather remarkable invention made back in 1890 by Prof. Gabriel Lippmann whereby full-spectrum images are stored in modified black and white lm and won him the Nobel prize in 1908.

Lippmann images are astounding in their color purity and broad spectrum. Sadly the process was never commercialized as the images cannot be duplicated. Our team has taken the Lippmann technology and used it for data storage. The permanence of sliver halide black and white photos is well-known and no energy is used during storage. Its unalterability provides a means for high-level data security. We have made full use of low-cost components widely used in cell phone displays.

Biography:

Clark E. Johnson is a consultant in data storage and magnetics technologies. He holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

He has spent most of his career working in magnetic recording, optics and with various technologies related to information storage. He began his career at the Central Research Laboratories of the 3M Company in St. Paul, MN and subsequently founded a number of high-tech start-ups in Minneapolis, New England and California, mainly involved in magnetics technologies, optics, measurement and telecommunications.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a past president of its Magnetics Society. He was an IEEE/AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow in Congress in 1988-89 advising the House Science Committee, after which he joined ARPA and was assigned to MIT where he was a co-founder of the Research Program on Communications Policy. At MIT he was involved in the development of the MIT/Polaroid/Philips progressive-scan camera and high-definition TV system that is now used world-wide.

Mr. Johnson holds over 35 patents and is widely published.

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