"The mathematics of chaos",huh? Don't know what it
means but I like the sound of it.   Carole H.


--- janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> THE COMPUTING POWER OF LEECHES
>
> Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia
> Institute of Technology are
> using living neurons from leeches to study the way
> neural networks could be
> used in computing.  "What we have done so far is
> demonstrate the feasibility
> of isolating nerve cells so we may use a computer as
> an intermediary in
> their communications with each other.  We are a long
> way from creating
> living computers, but we do eventually want to grow
> neurons on a silicon
> substrate as a first step," says Ronald Calabrese, a
> professor at Emory.
> Calabrese has focused on studying the neural
> networks that that manage a
> leech's rhythmic motor behavior, while Georgia Tech
> researcher William Ditto
> is developing a mathematical theory to describe the
> interactions of neurons.
> "Ditto has a theory that the mathematics of chaos
> can best describe the
> actions of neurons...  But I just want to discover
> how the leech neurons
> perform computations regardless of what mathematics
> best describes them,"
> says Calabrese.  (EE Times 22 Jul 99)
>
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990722S0009
>
>
> janet paterson
> 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset
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