>Richard Norman, rsnorman at mediaone.net, wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2000:
>>> I can't find a link to the new chips at the specified site.
>Mentifex/ATM:
>The ZDNet article from Reuters did not include a link,
>but said that the work was written up in Nature on `Thursday,'
>which must mean a Thurs.22.June.2000 issue of Nature.
>>The ZDNet article quoted H. Sebastian Seung and
>Rahul Sarpeshkar, both of MIT, so a look into Nature
>and a search for their names should lead to the paper.
>>> Nevertheless, it does seem a bit of a stretch from an
>> announcement of a mixed analog/digital chip to a
>> request for "one that can imitate the human cerebral cortex"
>>>> Mentifex <mentifex at my-deja.com> wrote in message
>> news:8itps1$j3t$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...>>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/ ZDNet: News: Page One has an
>>> article on mixed analog and digital chips being developed
>>> at MIT, Bell Labs and the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
>>>>>> The Mindmaker Project needs chips that can imitate the
>>> human cerebral cortex. <clip>
>>Arthur T. Murray mentifex at scn.org>>...imitating the human cerebral cortex in software:
>http://www.geocities.com/mentifex/mind4th.html
Try
Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a
cortex-inspired silicon circuit
RICHARD H. R. HAHNLOSER, RAHUL SARPESHKAR,
MISHA A. MAHOWALD, RODNEY J. DOUGLAS &
H. SEBASTIAN SEUNG
http://www.nature.com/nlink/v405/n6789/abs/405947a0_fs.html
Sean Patterson, Ph.D.
Catedra de Fisiologia, CC33
Facultad de Ciencias Medicas
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Mendoza, Argentina
Tel: (0261) 420-5115 ext.2684/2747
Fax: (0261) 449-4117
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