Remove Books Remove Store Remove Universal
article thumbnail

How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research

Cars That Think

“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

article thumbnail

Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

Cars That Think

Now, in a new book, IEEE Fellow Stephen Grossberg argues that an entirely different approach is needed. Grossberg attempts to explain in his nearly 800-page book how “the small lump of meat that we call a brain” gives rise to thoughts, feelings, hopes, sensations, and plans. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

Boston 145
article thumbnail

New “convection battery” could significantly increase performance of existing as well as new, improved battery chemistries

Green Car Congress

Researchers at the University of Missouri’s Department of Chemical Engineering (MU) have developed and demonstrated a new type of battery, referred to as the “convection battery” or “convection cell”. He is the co-author of the book entitled “Sustainable Nuclear Power”. Schematic of the convection cell. Credit: Prof. Galen Suppes.

Batteries 261
article thumbnail

The Birth of Random-Access Memory

Cars That Think

The first electronic digital computer capable of storing instructions and data in a read/write memory was the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine, known as the Manchester “Baby.” Williams , Tom Kilburn , and Geoff Tootill developed and built the machine and its storage system—the Williams-Kilburn tube—at the University of Manchester.

Store 110
article thumbnail

Wakka Wakka! This Turing Machine Plays Pac-Man

Cars That Think

Despite being a geneticist who also majored in computer science, I was struggling to bridge two concepts—the universal Turing machine , the very essence of computing, and the von Neumann architecture , the basis of most modern CPUs. The hardware implementation of a Turing machine can be organized around a rule book and a notepad.

Connect 143
article thumbnail

From Punch Cards to Python

Cars That Think

The dedication of the A-0 compiler as an IEEE Milestone was held in Philadelphia on 7 May at the University of Pennsylvania. artillery during World War II, but the two men wanted to develop computers for commercial applications, according to a Pennsylvania Center for the Book article. That’s where the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.

article thumbnail

Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

Cars That Think

University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Kunsan National University , in Korea; Miicevic is an assistant professor of telecommunications and IT at the University of Belgrade , in Serbia; and Bojkovi? is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. Education and Early Career.