Memory

Cosma / Communication / Media / Storage / Hardware / Memory

—————————

Introduction¹

Dictionary

memory : a device (as a chip) or a component of a device in which information especially for a computer can be inserted and stored and from which it may be extracted when wanted — Webster See also OneLook

FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing

Glossary

Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms (PC.net)

Encyclopedia

Memory refers to the computer hardware devices used to store information for immediate use in a computer; it is synonymous with the term “primary storage”. Computer memory operates at a high speed, for example random-access memory (RAM), as a distinction from storage that provides slow-to-access program and data storage but offers higher capacities. If needed, contents of the computer memory can be transferred to secondary storage, through a memory management technique called “virtual memory”. An archaic synonym for memory is store.

The term “memory”, meaning “primary storage” or “main memory”, is often associated with addressable semiconductor memory, i.e. integrated circuits consisting of silicon-based transistors, used for example as primary storage but also other purposes in computers and other digital electronic devices. There are two main kinds of semiconductor memory, volatile and non-volatile. Examples of non-volatile memory are flash memory (used as secondary memory) and ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM memory (used for storing firmware such as BIOS). Examples of volatile memory are primary storage, which is typically dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), and fast CPU cache memory, which is typically static random-access memory (SRAM) that is fast but energy-consuming, offering lower memory areal density than DRAM.

Most semiconductor memory is organized into memory cells or bistable flip-flops, each storing one bit (0 or 1). Flash memory organization includes both one bit per memory cell and multiple bits per cell (called MLC, Multiple Level Cell). The memory cells are grouped into words of fixed word length, for example 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 bit. Each word can be accessed by a binary address of N bit, making it possible to store 2 raised by N words in the memory. This implies that processor registers normally are not considered as memory, since they only store one word and do not include an addressing mechanism.

Typical secondary storage devices are hard disk drives and solid-state drives. — Wikipedia

Computer Memory (Encyclopædia Britannica)

———————-

Innovation

Technology

Memory Upgrade, How to.. (Computer Memory Upgrade)
Computer Memory Upgrade.net (Computer Memory Upgrade)

————————–

Preservation

—————————

Participation

Education

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Course

Crash Course: Computer Science (YouTube Channel)

Community

News

Data / Storage And Retrieval (Communications of the ACM)
Memory News (IEEE Spectrum)

Book

ISBNdb

Government

Document

USA.gov

———————-

Expression

Fun

Game

Future

A kilobyte rewritable atomic memory (Nature Nanotechnology)
Nanoscale Memory (Franz Himpsel, U. Wisconsin)

More…

Communications of the ACM: Data / Storage And Retrieval The latest news, opinion and research in data / storage and retrieval, from Communications online.

Flaw in VA's Medical Records Platform May Put...
on August 18, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Security researcher Zachary Minneker discovered a flaw in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA records platform and determined that hackers easily can defeat its 1990s-era encryption system.
Data Science Jobs Are a Top Pick for Gen Z,...
on August 18, 2022 at 1:36 pm
Gen Z considers the role of data scientist to be a top occupation, ranking it No. 4 in job satisfaction, according to a Glassdoor report.
Supermarket Food Could Soon Carry Eco-Labels
on August 10, 2022 at 4:00 pm
Consumers could soon be checking the environmental impact of food items through an eco-labeling system based on work by researchers at the U.K.'s Oxford University.
Surgeons Ask AI Which Patients Need Better Pain...
on August 9, 2022 at 4:19 pm
Cedars-Sinai's Department of Computational Biomedicine developed artificial intelligence tools to help spine surgeons predict patient outcomes and address pain management issues before they arise.
Women More Concerned Than Men About Some AI...
on August 9, 2022 at 2:37 pm
Women in the United States are more skeptical than men about some uses of artificial intelligence, particularly the possible widespread use of driverless passenger vehicles, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.

——–

Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.

Media

Function	Communications	Computation	Storage	Creation	Simulation
Analog	Mail	Device	Paper	Type, Print	Automaton
Electronic	Network	Calculator	Tape	Record	Elektro
Digital	Internet	Computer
Hardware	Modem	Microprocessor	Memory	Peripheral	Robot, XR
Software	Service (Web)	Program (OS, SS)	Database	Application	AI, VW

Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“

——

Notes

1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.