Human brain offers template for computation

摘要

Computing operations might benefit from mimicking the human brain, according to presentations at recent industry events. First weighing in on the topic was Jeff Kodosky, cofounder and National Instruments Business and Technology Fellow. As reported by EE-Evaluation Engineering Senior Technical Editor Tom Lecklider, "Working with Big Analog Data, according to Kodosky, can be compared to the way the human brain processes vision. Some processing is done directly in the retina even before the 100 million fibers in the optic nerve transport signals to the brain. There, data analysis proceeds in stages, specialized portions of the brain handling different aspects-even with a separate area for facial recognition. The parallel with digital computation is not hard to draw. Specialized algorithms running close to the edge of the system preprocess huge amounts of raw data to reduce the amount of work required at subsequent stages. And, Lab VIEW'S dataflow model continues to be the best way to describe these processes."