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Science 26 September 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5334, pp. 1934 - 1936
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5334.1934
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NEUROMORPHIC ENGINEERING:
Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain?

Andrew Watson

Computer scientists may tout their machines' abilities to perform millions or billions of operations a second, but in fact, biological systems are fantastically efficient at certain types of computation, such as interpreting sensory data. Some computer scientists are now trying to build a new kind of computer that captures in silicon the "essence" of biological subsystems. So-called "neuromorphic engineers" are adapting the tricks that the nervous system has come up with over the course of evolution.

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