28/08/2019

Building computers the way our brains work

"It's time to rethink computers. In principle, they're still being built the same way they were 60-70 years ago," says Tufte, professor of computer technology, now head of a project that is rethinking how tomorrow's computers should be built

"The brain provides stable performance even though the parts are unstable, it requires very little energy and has a self-organizing design process. If we manage to transfer properties like these from neural networks to computers, we'll be able to revolutionize the way we make computers. A cell is both constructed and constructor. Neural networks are complex but start out simple. The organism adapts to the environment and the world. When we construct machines it's the opposite. We build a computer of parts that are precisely planned and produced, and they're assembled according to a large plan to do a specific task. The machine is complicated from the start, but doesn't have the ability to develop."

Constructing this type of computer will require completely different hardware than is used in today's machines, an idea that is being pursued in a five-year research project that ends in 2022 partially funded by the Research Council of Norway called SOCRATES

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