Cold-crystallizing erythritol-polyelectrolyte: Scaling up reliable long-term heat storage material

The fractional latent heat of crystallizing magmas

The fractional latent heat of a crystallizing system is simply the latent heat of fusion divided by the total enthalpy. When plotted against temperature, this function displays robust pulses with the successive saturation of each incoming crystal phase. Each pulse endures for tens of degrees, corresponding to tens to hundreds of thousands of years in large magma bodies. From an original 1963 de...

How Long Is Long-Term Data Storage?

In the context of archiving of physical documents, long-term storage has long been accepted to mean centuries. Digital documents are much more ephemeral, so archivists should be aware of the inherent limitations of the technologies available for preservation of digital data. This paper compiles the results of several studies on this subject, in addition to presenting new findings on what can be...

Short-Long-Term Memory Interaction with Underlearned Long-Term Storage.

Reliable Computing with Unreliable Components: Using Separable Environments to Stabilize Long-Term Information Storage

How, in the face of both intrinsic and extrinsic volatility, can unconventional computing fabrics store information over arbitrarily long periods? Here, we argue that the predictable structure of many realistic environments, both natural and artificial, can be used to maintain useful categorical boundaries even when the computational fabric itself is inherently volatile and the inputs and outpu...

Reliable Long-Term Navigation in Indoor Environments