Computing Update

Researchers develop a "brain on a chip," which currently functions like a small version of the human brain:

http://www.physorg.com/news156440026.html

"...the system runs 100,000 times faster than the biological equivalent and 10 million times faster than a software simulation. We can simulate a day in one second..."

"Meier points out that neural computing, with its low-power demands and tolerance of faults, may make it possible to reduce components to molecular size. “We may then be able to make computing devices which are radically different and have amazing performance which, at some point, may approach the performance of the human brain - or even go beyond it!”"