Some cool work going on at Princeton. I like the concept of a photonic neuron "sing nonlinear optical and photonic materials, [researchers at Princeton] have recently built a hybrid analog/digital signal processing device which performs all the functions of a physiological neuron, but one billion times fast." Princeton's "spiking neuron is faster and more efficient than a digital computer, and does not suffer from the noise accumulation of analog electronics. Using the photonic neuron, [they] are implementing sophisticated, ultrafast signal processing circuits and systems which emulate visual, auditory, and motor functions found in biological organisms."
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Hal Bennett, former CEO of LWLG, stated back in November 2009 (in an open letter from UCMT):
"The successful completion of Lightwave's prototype phase modulator chip is a watershed event that could portend a new era in personal computing: cognitive computers like the HAL9000 computer depicted in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey,' that can see, hear, speak and think,"
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