Art class leads to student’s science success
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AN art class led 16-year-old Yao Yue of Jiading to a new optical computing method that won him a first prize at the 65th Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles.
Yao, a junior at the Jiading campus of the High School affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, took top honors with his thesis “A new method of light color overlay to realize ternary operation” in the computer science category at the May fair.
“I held my breath as they announced prize winners from the bottom to the top,” he said. “I was disappointed as I didn’t hear my name when the second prize was announced. But, finally I won the first prize, which was out of my expectation.”
In art class one day, Yao noticed that red and yellow combined to make orange, from which he knew the “Principle of three primary colors.” Then he thought, just like a figure plus a figure can form a new figure, a color plus a color can also form a new color.
“If colors apply to paints, then they can also apply to lights, which travel faster than electronic signals in traditional computers,” said Yao.
His hypothesis was that combinations of colored lights could be used to do “ternary computation” and make computers 100 times faster, as the conventional computing uses binary computation.
In January, Yao attended a winter science camp and passed a selection process to enter his research project in the international contest. He made a simple model of the optical computer and exhibited it at the Los Angeles competition.
He said he will keep on doing research in a bid to make further breakthroughs.
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