In Research: Computer Systems With Capabilities Of The Human Brain
Scientists are using nanotechnology to build such computer
SyNAPSE, a program by U.S. military research outfit at DARPA is aiming to develop a neoroporphic machine technology that roots to the biological levels. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. DARPA was established during 1958 in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U.S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation’s potential enemies.
“Basically, we have demonstrated that electric charges flowing through a mixture of an organic semiconductor and metallic nanoparticles can behave the same way as neurotransmitters through a synaptic connection in the brain,” Dominique Vuillaume, a research director at CNRS and head of the Molecular Nanostructures & Devices group at the Institute for Electronics Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) tells Nanowerk.
The initial phase of the SyNAPSE project is to develop nanometer scale electronic synaptic components capable of adapting the connection strength between two neurons in a manner analogous to that seen in biological systems, as well as, simulate the utility of these synaptic components in core microcircuits that support the overall system architecture. Data and image source: Military Technologies
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I read about it on the newspaper a while ago. Pretty amazing stuff.
Hi Anne. The technology is indeed very interesting and ambitious. Ambitious because, making a machine work and think exactly like a human will be the greatest achievement of mankind. Of course, next to the invention of computers.
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