{"id":33426,"date":"2017-01-12T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/greek-scientists-create-artificial-neuron-with-quantum-dot-lasers"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:03:51","slug":"greek-scientists-create-artificial-neuron-with-quantum-dot-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/greek-scientists-create-artificial-neuron-with-quantum-dot-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Greek scientists create artificial neuron with quantum-dot lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/greek-scientists-create-artificial-neuron-with-quantum-dot-lasers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Syn. Neurons via Q-Dot Laser. Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Greek researchers<\/strong> working at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) optical communication photonic technology laboratory have developed an artificial \u201cneuron\u201d that simulates fundamental functions of the human brain, at speeds that are many orders of magnitude higher.<\/p>\n<p>A paper on the new <strong>breakthrough<\/strong> made by the Greek team, led by Prof. Dimitris Syvridis with Dr. Charis Mesaritakis as main researcher and with Alexandros Kapsalis and Adonis Bogris listed as authors, was published in the \u201cScientific Reports\u201d section of the science journal \u201cNature\u201d on December 19.<\/p>\n<p>Simulating the action of <strong>biological neurons i<\/strong>s the \u201cHoly Grail\u201d of computing; the proposal developed by Mesaritakis and his team uses an integrated all-optical neuron based on an InAs\/InGaAs semiconductor quantum-dot passively mode-locked laser.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tornosnews.gr\/en\/greek-news\/society\/22075-greek-scientists-create-artificial-neuron-with-quantum-dot-lasers.html\">http:\/\/www.tornosnews.gr\/en\/greek-news\/society\/22075-greek-s...asers.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syn. Neurons via Q-Dot Laser. Nice. Greek researchers working at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) optical communication photonic technology laboratory have developed an artificial \u201cneuron\u201d that simulates fundamental functions of the human brain, at speeds that are many orders of magnitude higher. A paper on the new breakthrough made by the Greek [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49339,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33426\/revisions\/49339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}