[LINK] Wired - "New Chip Borrows Brain’s Computing Tricks"

post by minderbinder · 2011-08-19T03:13:55.622Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 2 comments

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In case anyone's interested,here's an article about new computer chips by IBM which emulate brain functions.

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comment by Manfred · 2011-08-19T04:17:26.501Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

"Emulate brain functions" in this case meaning "use distributed memory and processing to be able to handle massive parallelism."

comment by SilasBarta · 2011-08-19T15:47:24.050Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

That's just what we need: the computing architecture responsible for the earthworm's success!

(yes, EY came up with that first)