SNS Subscriber Edition Volume 18, Issue 3 Week of January 19, 2015 In This Issue
Feature: The Ultimate Biocomputer: Brain or Cell? Part I
Understanding Neurons
The Internal Design
The Grand Design
Quotes of the Week
Takeout Window
Malware Going Exponential
Upgrades and Numbers
Russia at War: Ukraine
Elon Musk Re-Visions Teledesic
Ethermail
In Case You Missed It… SNS Members Making News
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We have been writing about the importance of pattern recognition since 1995 – and, more recently, about the need for Pattern Recognition Processor (PRP) chips to do this specific task in computing (“SNS: The Most Important Chip Not Yet Invented,” 2.12.13). SNS members have followed the recent spate of announcements in the fields of neuromorphic processors, brain-inspired design, neural networks, and artificial intelligence (which still seems like a misnomer).
Clearly, from DARPA to Google, from IBM to Qualcomm, from the Allen Institutes to the EU Brain Project, something is afoot: the world has decided that biomimicry is the way to go in moving computing forward.
