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Memristor slime: logical choice for a biocomputer

  • Autores: Paul Marks
  • Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2922, 2013, pág. 12
  • Idioma: inglés
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  • Resumen
    • A garish yellow slime that grows on rotten leaves and logs could one day form the brains behind living computers. The feeding fronds of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum turn out to have memory resistance or memristance. This electronic property can be used to create the data processing circuits at the heart of all computers. Now Ella Gale and colleagues at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, have found memristor behavior in P. polycephalums food-seeking tendrils. The team says that mold might one day be used to build exotic computers. Slime mold can be used to perform all the logic functions that conventional computer hardware components can do. Her team is also exploring whether, in addition to number-crunching, slime mold's knack for finding the shortest path to nutrients can be used to design the most efficient circuit patterns for biocomputers.


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