CHEMICAL COMPUTERS.

Abstract

The high speed electronic computers of today, while they vastly outperform man's own ability to manipulate numbers, have no intellectual capability in the biological sense. Self-organizing programs for such computers and electronic 'brain-models', such as Pandemonium, PAPA, and Perceptron, have been the first awkward beginnings toward the realization of an ancient goal of man: to build a thinking machine. The organization of biological thinking devices is highly statistical in nature, and the very number of necessary connections militates against the use of wires and macroscopic electronic components in their simulation. Chemical analogs of electronic components of artificial neurons are demonstrated, which might be self-connecting and microscopic in size. It is shown that their speed of response, seriously inferior to their electronic counterparts, can be turned to advantage for the task of perception. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0677737

Entities

People

  • Orlo E. Myers

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Analogs
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Electronic Components
  • Mental Processes
  • Perception
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Thinking

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics