[scifinoir2] Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'

2010-05-11 Thread Amy Harlib

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Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'
By Dario Borghino

17:37 May 10, 2010

 
Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that can mimic the 
inner working mechanisms of the human brain

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Submit Researchers from Japan and the Michigan Technological University have 
succeeded in building a molecular computer that, more than any previous project 
of its kind, can replicate the inner mechanisms of the human brain, repairing 
itself and mimicking the massive parallelism that allows our brains to process 
information like no silicon-based computer can.

A relatively new technology, molecular electronics is an interdisciplinary 
pursuit that may very well prove the long-term solution to validate Moore's law 
well into the next century. A molecular computer is made of organic molecules 
instead of silicon. Chips built this way are not only potentially much smaller 
but also, because of the way they can be networked, able to do things that no 
other traditional computer, regardless of its speed, can do.

Modern computers are quite fast, capable of executing trillions of 
instructions a second, but they can't match the intelligent performance of our 
brain, Michigan Tech physicist Ranjit Pati commented. Our neurons only fire 
about a thousand times per second. But I can see you, recognize you, talk with 
you, and hear someone walking by in the hallway almost instantaneously, a 
Herculean task for even the fastest computer.

The key lays in the massive parallelism and versatility of the human brain, as 
the electrical impulses that travel through it follow vast, dynamic neural 
paths that operate collectively, constantly communicating with each other. In 
digital computers, by contrast, information processing is done sequentially, 
with recent advancements such as multicore processors and GPU processing 
altering the picture only slightly.

The researchers built a molecular computer by placing DDQ — a hexagonal 
molecule made of nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine and carbon that self-assembles in 
two layers — on a gold substrate. Crucially, this molecule has the ability to 
easily switch among four conducting states (compared to the only two used by a 
standard computer), which simplifies the read/write mechanisms and speeds up 
the data crunching.

The neat part is, approximately 300 molecules talk with each other at a time 
during information processing. We have mimicked how neurons behave in the 
brain, said Pati. But perhaps the most stunning similarity of the team's 
computer with the human brain comes from the self-organizing ability of the 
molecular layer, and is the ability to physically heal itself, just like brain 
cells are able to regenerate to some extent.

Because of these unique characteristics the team's processor can, despite its 
relative simplicity, solve problems for which algorithms are unknown. The 
researchers already demonstrated this capability by simulating two natural 
phenomena in the molecular layer — heat diffusion and the evolution of cancer 
cells. As their complexity grows, molecular computers may soon be able to solve 
the same problems that our brains face every day.

The team's work is detailed in the paper Massively Parallel Computing on an 
Organic Molecule Layer, published in the online version of the journal Nature 
Physics. The research is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Via Michigan Tech.




Re: [scifinoir2] Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Baxter
I actually wrote of something similar to this, a few centuries back. My
protagonist built a computer, using his own brain as a template, but it
worked faster because it didn't have to worry about minding the functions of
a human body. The computer was always able to outthink him at every turn,
and finally determined that it had to destroy him, because he would one day
invent a weapon that would cause billions of deaths. The way I ended the
story, the computer ended up inventing the weapon itself, and destroyed
itself in shame.

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 Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'

 By Dario Borghino http://www.gizmag.com/author/dario-borghino/

 *17:37 May 10, 2010*
  [image: Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that
 can mimic the inner 
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 Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that can mimic
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[scifinoir2] Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'

2010-05-10 Thread Mr. Worf
Scientists create organic 'molecular computer'

By Dario Borghino http://www.gizmag.com/author/dario-borghino/

*17:37 May 10, 2010*
 [image: Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that
can mimic the inner
worki...]http://www.gizmag.com/organic-molecular-computer/15041/picture/114418/

Researchers have succeeded in building a molecular computer that can mimic
the inner working mechanisms of the human brain
 
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