Although computers have been called “thinking machines,” their internal operations have very little to do with how the original thinking machine — the human brain — actually works. That’s changing, however, as some researchers at MIT and the University of Texas Medical School have demonstrated in a new computer chip that mimics how the brain learns as it receives new information. The chip can simulate the activity that takes place in the brain’s synapses. Synapses connect neurons in the brain. Neurons are where the brain stores information.
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Researchers Create Brain on a Chip
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. November 16, 2011 10:39 AMAlthough computers have been called “thinking machines,” their internal operations have very little to do with how the original thinking machine — the human brain — actually works. That’s changing, however, as some researchers at MIT and the University of Texas Medical School have demonstrated in a new computer chip that mimics how the brain learns as it receives new information. The chip can simulate the activity that takes place in the brain’s synapses. Synapses connect neurons in the brain. Neurons are where the brain stores information.