As a high-school student in the 1950s, John Koza yearned for a personal computer. That was a tall order back then, as mass-produced data processors such as the IBM 704 were mainframes several times the size of his bedroom. So the cocksure young man went rummaging for broken jukeboxes and pinball machines, repurposing relays and switches and lightbulbs to make...
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Neuronal Computer Chips Communicate Like Brain Cells
Brain-like computers could soon become a lot more common. Earlier this year, we heard about a project involving DARPA and IBM to create a functioning neurosynaptic chip, which works somewhat like a brain in the way it learns and remembers. Now MIT engineers have designed a chip that mimics the function of a synapse in the brain, in its ability to model specific...
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John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine
As a high-school student in the 1950s, John Koza yearned for a personal computer. That was a tall order back...
Neuronal Computer Chips Communicate Like Brain Cells
Brain-like computers could soon become a lot more common. Earlier this year, we heard about a project involving DARPA and...
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Oriental fruit flies are one of the biggest scourges to farmers around the globe, often forcing officials to put crops into...
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