IP: BRAIN CELLS LINKED TO SILICON CHIPS

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> BRAIN CELLS LINKED TO SILICON CHIPS
>
> Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Germany have
> electronically linked multiple snail neurons onto transistor chips and
> demonstrated that the cells communicate with each other and with the chips.
> Biophysicist Peter Fromherz says: "It's very primitive, but it's the first
> time that a neural network was directly interfaced with a silicon chip.
> It's a proof-of-principle experiment." The combination of biology and
> technology eventually may lead to such things as artificial retinas or
> prosthetic limbs that are extensions of the human nervous system, and the
> development of robots possessing far more intelligence than the current
> generation of such machines. (Washington Post 28 Aug 2001)
>
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5195-2001Aug27.html>



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