Tag Archives: computational engines
Computers have a lot to learn from the human brain, engineers say: Scientific American Blog
“We have no computers today that can begin to approach the awesome power of the human mind,” Modha said. A computer comparable to the human brain, he added, would need to be able to perform more than 38 thousand trillion operations per second [[http://www.petaflop.info/]] and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory. (IBM’s BlueGene supercomputer, one [...]
Computational Engines, Twitter, & Twine
I posted this here in order to begin a trail back to “Wolfram Alpha”. Subject of a discussion on my friendfeed about an hour ago. The branches off this tree suddenly took me through the looking glass and into a world of computational engines and AI that is currently the hot topic with some of [...]
