BECAUSE computers work in a very different way from the brain, it’s hard to
get them to do many of the things that the brain does effortlessly, such as
recognising handwriting or spotting a face in a crowd. But a team of Swiss and
American researchers has found a way around this problem by building an
electronic circuit that mimics the way the brain works. They believe similar
circuits could outpace a supercomputer on specialised tasks.
Designing circuits that work on the same principle as the brain is a
challenge—not least because neuroscientists are not exactly sure how the…
