{"id":13971,"date":"2015-04-11T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:42","slug":"scientists-close-in-on-computers-that-work-like-the-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/scientists-close-in-on-computers-that-work-like-the-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists close in on computers that work like the human brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/author\/richard-moss\/\" rel=\"author\">Richard Moss<\/a> \u2014 GizmagScientists have been working <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/hp-labs-memristor-discovery-could-lead-to-computers-that-never-need-to\/9253\/\" target=\"_blank\">since 2008<\/a> to develop technology based on memristors (short for memory resistors), which promise computers that need never boot up and function more akin to the human brain \u2013 like neurons, they can retain information and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/hp-memristor\/14787\/\" target=\"_blank\">perform logic operations<\/a>. Now scientists at Northwestern University have made a new breakthrough that may make possible brain-like computing capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Memristors are considered exciting for more than their potential to create brain-like computers. Unlike flash memory, they\u2019re fast. Unlike random access memory (RAM), they remember their state \u2013 whatever information they held \u2013 when they lose power. They also require less energy to operate, rarely crash, and are immune to radiation. The trouble is that they are two-terminal electronic devices, which results in them being tunable only through changes in the voltage applied externally. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/memristors-three-terminal-brain-like-computing\/36925\/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=1ff150fad1-UA-2235360-4&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_65b67362bd-1ff150fad1-91667501\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Moss \u2014 GizmagScientists have been working since 2008 to develop technology based on memristors (short for memory resistors), which promise computers that need never boot up and function more akin to the human brain \u2013 like neurons, they can retain information and perform logic operations. Now scientists at Northwestern University have made a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46548,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/46548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}