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 –...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleConcept 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...
View ArticleStress 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...
View ArticleNanowire 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...
View ArticleUpdate: 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...
View ArticleNEWS: 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...
View ArticleMemflector: 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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