I think there will need to be work with things that essentially are what we think of as speculative execution today. This is because I’m sure there will be need to interact with considerably more systems, threads, messages, instructions whatever in the scope of an interstellar starship.
And no doubt some advances will be necessary in terms of AI to handle the calculations. I don’t know what those calculations are, but I’m sure they’re difficult :)
I think about the voice interface to the various computers. Really complex interactions. Always on. Rapidly changing contexts. Historic conversations. Different languages.
I’m sure storage is an issue. Something to do with compression algorithms. And decompression. Probably encryption and security.
Challenges in redundancy might be hardware or materials problems.
Most of them are hard for me to even articulate plainly :)
And no doubt some advances will be necessary in terms of AI to handle the calculations. I don’t know what those calculations are, but I’m sure they’re difficult :)
I think about the voice interface to the various computers. Really complex interactions. Always on. Rapidly changing contexts. Historic conversations. Different languages.
I’m sure storage is an issue. Something to do with compression algorithms. And decompression. Probably encryption and security.
Challenges in redundancy might be hardware or materials problems.
Most of them are hard for me to even articulate plainly :)