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IBM Cortical Simulator – more brain than a cat

Modeling brain function with a supercomputer is an ongoing scientific project, now spanning decades. Of course, as the computers become increasingly powerful, the results begin to look more realistic –...

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A big step up: Two qubit computing

Step by step we’re moving closer to useful quantum computing. A big step, announced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, USA), was the demonstration of a computing device using...

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Concept news: A one-molecule transistor

Two scientists, Mark Reed, the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science at Yale (USA), and Takhee Lee, a former Yale postdoctoral associate and now a professor at the Gwangju...

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Stress test for computers: New sorting records

In the old days people used index cards to sort information such as names or addresses by alphabetical order. Have you ever sorted a thousand cards? Try sorting the information on 210 DVDs or 1,422 CDs...

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Nanowire transistors: A next step for digital technology

Remember “Fast, cheap, good – pick any two?” How about “Fast, small, low power – pick any two?” Doesn’t ring a bell? This ‘perfect trio’ applies to transistors. Typically, if a transistor is fast, it...

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Update: Who’s afraid of Watson?

Not long ago a computer assembled by IBM, named Watson, whupped a couple of good-old-boys and all-time-winners at the game of Jeopardy! This garnered a good deal of attention, mainly with the notion...

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NEWS: Short List

Targeting cancer with magnetic microcarrier – Nanomedicine | As a rule chemotherapy is like using a blunderbuss against cancer. ‘Chemo’ is administered through the bloodstream, which of course goes...

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Memflector: Neuron-like computer component

I try not to put too much weight on very early advances in technology. This is particularly true of computer technology because there are so many relatively new avenues of research, all clamoring for...

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