Immortalizing Humanity's Cultural and Scientific Heritage as High-Density Nano-Printed Archives via Advanced Lithographic Techniques
Location
Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHD/011) - 011-1300 Bower Maker Showcase
For the last 5,000 years of recorded history, civilizations have risen and fallen. What knowledge remains of the ancients is contained only in deciphered glyphs from archeological findings. We learned about the ancient Egyptians through their writings through what must have been a painstakingly slow chiseling process into stones. Technologies for information storage have vastly advanced. With the invention of the Gutenberg press, knowledge proliferated in a durable human readable format and continued with microfiche that can last a century. We quickly moved to a digital era, where all information is reduced to binary bits with tremendous advantages of speed and convenience as a trade for longevity. In 1956 IBM invented the first hard drive to store digital storage, but it became obsolete within 5 years. Digital is ubiquitous but it requires constant medium upgrades and migration to preserve information making sustainability difficult. In order for modern civilization to pass on our vast knowledge and culture, RIT and local company, Stamper Technology developed a new way using lithography to store high density information in a human readable format and on a durable nickel medium that requires only simple optics and light to recover. This technology ensures the legacy of today's civilization will be preserved forever for future generations to examine.
Immortalizing Humanity's Cultural and Scientific Heritage as High-Density Nano-Printed Archives
Location
Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHD/011) - 011-1300 Bower Maker Showcase
Topics
Exhibitor
Santosh Kurinec
Farhaanuddin Mohammed
Paul Jacob
Bruce Ha
Advisor(s)
Paul Jacob, Farhaanuddin Mohammed
Organization
Our collaborator - Stamper Technology invented a technology to securely store documents longer than any known medium including chiseled ancient stones. We have solved the permanence issue that plagues current digital storage that is ephemeral with time a
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