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September 22, 2005

Non-silicon computing

Silicon and binary logic have taken us a very long way. They form, as they say, the paradigm of a computer. But the paradigm has some drawbacks – the time it takes to tackle non-linear problems such as database searching and image processing, for example, and power consumption. There are other, much more flexible computers around.

The one in your head is a great example, but we couldn’t begin to design a device based on a similar architecture, in which simple structures – in this case neurons – combine to create complex behaviours. While God knows how the brain handles data, it probably isn’t limited to binary.

At the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol, Dr Larry Bull, a computer scientist, doesn’t really care what base it uses. Bull is investigating the computational behaviour of collections of rat neurons, trying to probe the system to work out how to control it and get it doing useful things. What exactly is going on in the neural network from a logical point of view, is of limited concern.

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Posted by thinkingmachine at September 22, 2005 07:12 PM

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