Metaphors & Images » computational engines http://www.alexwilliams93.org Stories & Thoughts both Visual & Verbal Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:08:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Computers have a lot to learn from the human brain, engineers say: Scientific American Blog http://www.alexwilliams93.org/2009/03/11/computers-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-human-brain-engineers-say-scientific-american-blog/ http://www.alexwilliams93.org/2009/03/11/computers-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-human-brain-engineers-say-scientific-american-blog/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:31:41 +0000 Alex Williams http://alexwilliams93.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/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 of the worlds’ most powerful, has a computational capability of 92 trillion operations per second and 8 terabytes of storage.)

By Larry Greenemeier in 60-Second Science Blog

Computers have a lot to learn from the human brain, engineers say: Scientific American Blog

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]]> http://www.alexwilliams93.org/2009/03/11/computers-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-the-human-brain-engineers-say-scientific-american-blog/feed/ 0 Computational Engines, Twitter, & Twine http://www.alexwilliams93.org/2009/03/09/items-novas-twitter-friends-twine-twine/ http://www.alexwilliams93.org/2009/03/09/items-novas-twitter-friends-twine-twine/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:02:18 +0000 Alex Williams http://alexwilliams93.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/items-novas-twitter-friends-twine-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 my friendfeed cohorts. Twine and the Semantic Web suddenly also blipped on to my screen; thus the following link.

All this reminds me of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle and Leibniz’s computational engine based on a symbolic language in the latter 17th century.

Absolutely fascinating!

OK, This should work. I’ve now connected FriendFeed to Twine.

Items | Nova’s Twitter Friends Twine | Twine

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