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User ID: 953716 India 04/26/2010 01:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain At Work Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain A new molecular computer can generate different patterns equivalent to ones and zeroes in a conventional computer. A. Bandyopadhyay et al Pic: [ link to www.popsci.com] A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The tiny circuit, comprised of organic molecules on a gold substrate, is capable of super-fast concurrent calculations that rival the firing of neurons. When it comes to multitasking, even the fastest computers are still miles behind the human brain. Neurons only fire about a thousand times per second -- way slower than the petaflops achieved by today's fastest digital processors -- yet people are still smarter than computers. "I can see you, recognize you, talk with you, and hear someone walking by in the hallway almost instantaneously, a Herculean task for even the fastest computer," physicist Ranjit Pati of Michigan Technological University says in a press release. [ link to www.popsci.com] Last Edited by Account Deleted by User on 10/15/2011 06:30 PM |
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User ID: 860701 United Kingdom 04/26/2010 02:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain At Work Nice. Ta. "It's an inter-dimensional intrusion into flatland," said the vicar to the choir boy. |