Fractal Reality

I don’t pretend to be anything of an expert, or even very knowledgeable, in the area of electronics however it is something that interests me.  When I read the many science focused articles around the net I eventually find myself absorbing information about the world of the resistor, capacitor, inductor.  Recently one such time I found myself reading an extremely interesting article about a ‘missing’ area of electronics that only a decade ago was discovered and only recently gaining speed.  When I say missing I mean it in the way that many elements in the periodic table were missing in days past.  This missing circuit element is named the memristor (with the memcapacitor closely following).

I first remember hearing about this technology a few years ago but didn’t think much more off it but now I’m more interested.  The basic overview of the memristor is that it acts like a resistor, by generating a voltage from a current, but then amazingly it “remembers” what current had flowed through it previously.  This is incredibly useful and will have lots of major applications around various technologies – one of which being Artificial Intelligence.  The system a memrisitor mimics is already seen in the natural world in simple and complex biological life with Humans being one of them.  This may have been one of the reasons why Artificial Intelligence has not had any major success (bar brute force) over the past decades compared to other fields of science.   It’s worth a thought.

To find out more follow this link to a NewScientist article (or Google it of course!)

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, Memcapacitors, Memristors, Science

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