DocumentCode
1368993
Title
In search of an optical `brain¿
Volume
23
Issue
8
fYear
1986
Firstpage
49
Lastpage
51
Abstract
¿A five-year-old child can recognize faces, but a super Cray can´t even recognize a handwritten character,¿ remarked Demetri Psaltis, associate professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. ¿Yet a human being is lousy at algebra compared with a computer. What is it about a digital electronic computer that makes it so awkward for certain tasks versus the natural neural network of the brain?¿
Keywords
Biological neural networks; Computer architecture; Computers; Detectors; Laboratories; Optical computing; Optics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.1986.6371057
Filename
6371057
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