Jean Anne Incorvia literally works at the interface between software and hardware. She is a physicist, materials scientist and electrical engineer simultaneously. An assistant professor in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, her key interests lie in developing the computer systems of the future – computers powered and operated through nanotechnology, quantum mechanics and, most recently, the emerging field of neuromorphic ラーメンベット 評判.
Incorvia’s innovation in neuromorphic computer ラーメンベット 評判 helped her earn a News archive ラーメンベット 入金 遅い, a prestigious honor bestowed on junior faculty that includes up to five years of research funding. And she is leading a neuromorphic ラーメンベット 評判 research team with Sandia National Laboratories’ Laboratory Directed ラーメンベット 評判 & Development program.
We sat down with Incorvia to learn more about what exactly neuromorphic ラーメンベット 評判 is and why she and other researchers are fascinated by mimicking the human brain to develop new ラーメンベット 評判 technologies.
What is neuromorphic ラーメンベット 評判?
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We build computers because they can do things the human ラーメンベット 評判 cannot. So why build a computer that mimics it?
Modern computers are very, very good at certain tasks. For example, a computer can calculate 329,484,853 + 792,039,254 a lot faster than a human. But, there are some tasks where the human brain wins. For example, the brain can recognize a face or voice using a million times less power than a modern supercomputer. How exactly the brain works is still an active area of ラーメンベット 評判, but we do know that its efficient computation of these types of tasks comes from both how the building blocks of the brain (neurons and synapses) behave, and how they are connected together in a much different way than the computers of today.
One bottleneck we see when modern computers do data-intensive tasks is called the Memory Wall. In traditional computers, the processing and memory are physically located in different parts of the computer. Access to memory ends up dominating the energy required to do a task. For example, in genome sequencing, 96% of the ラーメンベット 評判 time is due to memory access.
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What is holding existing computer technology back from being able to more closely mimic the ラーメンベット 評判?
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Your team in the Integrated Nano ラーメンベット 評判 Lab at UT Austin recently made an important discovery related to this challenge. Tell us more.
My ラーメンベット 評判 group is using nanomagnetic devices instead of silicon to construct artificial neurons and synapses. Magnetic materials and devices have many properties similar to the brain that make them attractive candidates for building neuromorphic computers. We have found a new way to take advantage of some of those physical properties to better mimic synapses, which are crucial to improving energy-efficiency in the computers of the future.
You work on technology that could take decades before we see ラーメンベット 評判 used in our everyday lives. Why?
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