Individual Research Paper Topics Your research should include speculation on where the state-ofthe-art will be in the near future for one of the following technologies. Your paper could include a description of the state-of-the-art in your technology, a discussion of where the sources that you read believe the technology is heading in the near future, and a discussion of how this technology will affect the choices you would make if you were making purchase recommendations for a client. Although there is room for personal opinion in your paper, you must justify your conclusions. - Multi-core computing - Symmetric multiprocessing - Distributed computing - Cluster computing - Parallelism, e.g., Massively parallel computing - Cluster computing - Grid computing - Quantum computing - Emerging storage technologies - Peripheral connections and buses - Video display systems - CPU architectures - Very Large Scale Integration systems - Microprocessor advancements - Memory technologies (e.g. non-volatile memory) - Optical technologies