{"id":152108,"date":"2022-12-07T19:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/bio-circuitry-mimics-synapses-and-neurons-in-a-step-toward-sensory-computing"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T01:22:52","slug":"bio-circuitry-mimics-synapses-and-neurons-in-a-step-toward-sensory-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/bio-circuitry-mimics-synapses-and-neurons-in-a-step-toward-sensory-computing","title":{"rendered":"Bio-circuitry mimics synapses and neurons in a step toward sensory computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bio-circuitry-mimics-synapses-and-neurons-in-a-step-toward-sensory-computing.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and Texas A&amp;M University demonstrated bio-inspired devices that accelerate routes to neuromorphic, or brain-like, computing.<\/p>\n<p>Results published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> report the first example of a lipid-based \u201cmemcapacitor,\u201d a charge storage component with memory that processes information much like synapses do in the brain. Their discovery could support the emergence of computing networks modeled on biology for a sensory approach to machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to develop materials and computing elements that work like biological synapses and neurons\u2014with vast interconnectivity and flexibility\u2014to enable <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/autonomous+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autonomous systems<\/a> that operate differently than current computing devices and offer new functionality and learning capabilities,\u201d said Joseph Najem, a recent postdoctoral researcher at ORNL\u2019s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and current assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee and Texas A&amp;M University demonstrated bio-inspired devices that accelerate routes to neuromorphic, or brain-like, computing. Results published in Nature Communications report the first example of a lipid-based \u201cmemcapacitor,\u201d a charge storage component with memory that processes information much like synapses do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152108","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}