New computing technologies inspired by the brain promise fundamentally different ways to
process information with extreme energy efficiency and the ability to handle the avalanche of …

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contributed articles what is the mind? Neither scientists nor philosophers agree on a universal …

Perspectives for understanding the brain vary across disciplines and this has challenged our
ability to describe the brain's functions. In this comment, we discuss how emerging …

Computers have undergone tremendous improvements in performance over the last 60
years, but those improvements have significantly slowed down over the last decade, owing …

Dmitri Strukov (an electrical engineer, University of California at Santa Barbara), Giacomo
Indiveri (an electrical engineer, University of Zurich), Julie Grollier (a material physicist, Unite …

No one would accuse neuromorphic computing of lacking ambition. With a mission to
decipher the multitude of secrets nature deploys to achieve unrivalled efficiency and …

Back in 1969, humans overcame unprecedented technological hurdles to make history: we
put two of our own on the Moon and returned them safely. Today's computers are capable …

The race is on to build a computer that exploits quantum mechanics. Such a machine could
solve problems in physics, mathematics and cryptography that were once thought …

Neuromorphic computing draws inspiration from the brain to provide computing technology
and architecture with the potential to drive the next wave of computer engineering …

New technologies in neuroscience generate reams of data at an exponentially increasing
rate, spurring the design of very-large-scale data-mining initiatives. Several supranational …