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From: jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: Reproducing the brain in low-power analog CMOS
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 88 11:23 EDT
From: John B. Nagle <jbn@glacier.stanford.edu>
Subject: Reproducing the brain in low-power analog CMOS
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      Forget Turing machines.  The smart money is on reproducing the brain
with low-pwer analog CMOS VLSI.  Carver Mead is down at Caltech, reverse
engineering the visual system of monkeys and building equivalent electronic
circuits.  Progress seems to be rapid.  Very possibly, traditional AI will
be bypassed by the VLSI people.

					John Nagle