{"id":127109,"date":"2021-09-02T07:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-molecular-computing-device-has-unprecedented-reconfigurability-reminiscent-of-brain-plasticity"},"modified":"2021-09-02T07:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T14:22:38","slug":"new-molecular-computing-device-has-unprecedented-reconfigurability-reminiscent-of-brain-plasticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/new-molecular-computing-device-has-unprecedented-reconfigurability-reminiscent-of-brain-plasticity","title":{"rendered":"New Molecular Computing Device Has Unprecedented Reconfigurability Reminiscent of Brain Plasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-molecular-computing-device-has-unprecedented-reconfigurability-reminiscent-of-brain-plasticity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a discovery published in the journal <em>Nature,<\/em> an international team of researchers has described a novel molecular device with exceptional computing prowess.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscent of the plasticity of connections in the human brain, the device can be reconfigured on the fly for different computational tasks by simply changing applied voltages. Furthermore, like nerve cells can store memories, the same device can also retain information for future retrieval and processing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe brain has the remarkable ability to change its wiring around by making and breaking connections between nerve cells. Achieving something comparable in a physical system has been extremely challenging,\u201d said Dr. R. Stanley Williams, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&amp;M University. \u201cWe have now created a molecular device with dramatic reconfigurability, which is achieved not by changing physical connections like in the brain, but by reprogramming its logic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discovery published in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers has described a novel molecular device with exceptional computing prowess. Reminiscent of the plasticity of connections in the human brain, the device can be reconfigured on the fly for different computational tasks by simply changing applied voltages. Furthermore, like nerve cells can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}