{"id":5312,"date":"2008-03-11T17:54:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2008-12-11T00:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:28:46","slug":"scientists-create-tiny-computer-mimcs-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/03\/scientists-create-tiny-computer-mimcs-human-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Tiny Computer, Mimics Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p> The most powerful computer known is the brain, and now scientists have designed a machine just a few molecules large that mimics how the brain works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20080311\/sc_livescience\/tinybrainlikecomputercreated\" class=\"external external_icon\">So far the device can simultaneously carry out 16 times more operations than a normal computer transistor<\/a>. Researchers suggest the invention might eventually prove able to perform roughly 1,000 times more operations than a transistor.<\/p>\n<p>This machine could not only serve as the foundation of a powerful computer, but also serve as the controlling element of complex gadgets such as microscopic doctors or factories, scientists added.<\/p>\n<p>The device is made of a compound known as duroquinone. This molecule resembles a hexagonal plate with four cones linked to it, &#8220;like a small car,&#8221; explained researcher Anirban Bandyopadhyay, an artificial intelligence and molecular electronics scientist at the National Institute for Materials Science at Tsukuba in Japan. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>WATCH<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/php\/video\/player.php?video_id=080310-brain-machine\" class=\"external external_icon\">how the little bugger works<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20080311\/sc_livescience\/tinybrainlikecomputercreated\" class=\"external external_icon\">yahoo news<\/a>, digg)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most powerful computer known is the brain, and now scientists have designed a machine just a few molecules large that mimics how the brain works. So far the device can simultaneously carry out 16 times more operations than a normal computer transistor. Researchers suggest the invention might eventually prove able to perform roughly 1,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-nanotech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}