Memristor based self organizing adaptive neural network chip could speed image and video processing by 1000 times

Loosely inspired by a biological brain’s approach to making sense of visual information, a University of Michigan researcher is leading a project to build alternative computer hardware that could process images and video 1,000 times faster with 10,000 times less power than today’s systems—all without sacrificing accuracy. DARPA has awarded up to $5.7 million to …

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Needed: A Way To Plot The Design Space of Space Launch Systems

Needed: A Way To Plot Design Space of Space Launch Systems  A guest post by Joseph Friedlander on Next Big Future I have long  admired the Pournelle Axes of political analysis which reduce the entire political map to a single graph– Links about Pournelle Axes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_chart http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm And it occurred to me we need something …

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