Inexact design: beyond fault-tolerance

  • Authors:
  • Gary Anthes

  • Affiliations:
  • Arlington, VA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In a new approach to making computers more efficient, called "inexact," "probabilistic," or "approximate" computing, errors are not avoided; they are welcomed. Some call it "living dangerously."