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Dr. Robert Ballard

President, Institute for Exploration @ Mystic Aquarium

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"64-bit computing is going to revolutionize what we do. We have huge problems of dealing with massive amounts of information and accessing that information, and also using that technology to empower people at home. A lot of places, like research institutions, can afford huge crunchers, and can afford tremendous investment in their technology through their work, but the average person cannot. And what 64-bit technology's going to do is to bring it home to people and empower them to do things that they couldn't do right now.

When you introduce something like 64-bit technology you are empowering everyone, and you're empowering the scientific world. And as soon as you give the scientific world more power, they make greater discoveries, discoveries that ultimately have an impact on everyone's lives. So, this is something that's really going to help revolutionize a lot of different research areas.

It's also really fascinating and very important to us that AMD 64-bit technology is backward compatible because we've spent millions and millions of dollars on our technology, and the last thing we want to hear is "throw it away." To be able to seamlessly integrate it with 64-bit is critical to us, and I'm sure to a lot of others.

64-bit technology is going to really give consumers capabilities they don't have. And, as we all know, it's only going to get more complicated. Telecommunication technology is going to be sending more and more bandwidth, more and more capacity to a consumer. How are they going to digest it? How are they going to be able to turn it into something that's useful to their everyday life? That is what 64-bit technology has to offer."




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