{"id":89990,"date":"2019-04-26T04:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/fast-efficient-and-durable-artificial-synapse-developed"},"modified":"2019-04-26T04:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:42:56","slug":"fast-efficient-and-durable-artificial-synapse-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/fast-efficient-and-durable-artificial-synapse-developed","title":{"rendered":"Fast, efficient and durable artificial synapse developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-efficient-and-durable-artificial-synapse-developed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brain\u2019s capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring little energy has inspired an entire field to pursue brain-like \u2013 or neuromorphic \u2013 computers. Researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories previously developed one portion of such a computer: a device that acts as an artificial synapse, mimicking the way neurons communicate in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published online by the journal <i>Science<\/i> on April 25, the team reports that a prototype array of nine of these devices performed even better than expected in processing speed, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy efficiency<\/a>, reproducibility and durability.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/team+members\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">team members<\/a> want to combine their artificial synapse with traditional electronics, which they hope could be a step toward supporting artificially intelligent learning on small devices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-04-fast-efficient-durable-artificial-synapse.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain\u2019s capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring little energy has inspired an entire field to pursue brain-like \u2013 or neuromorphic \u2013 computers. Researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories previously developed one portion of such a computer: a device that acts as an artificial synapse, mimicking the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}