Visit at Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

In April an excursion brought our team to Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) in Paderborn. The museum has a unique collection of past computing hardware ranging from 16th century mechanical calculators over paper punchcard calculators and analog computers to modern highly integrated neural network chips. Computing hardware was always been changing and also today Moore’s law brings semiconductor-based chips currently close to physically and economically feasible limits of shrinkage. What will our ancestors think about our current silicon-based, digital, deterministic, von-Neumann hardware in the future? Will it still have its applications or will it be completely replaced?

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