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Smart connections

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Nanoscale devices have now been made that mimic biological connections in the brain by responding to the relative timing of signals. This achievement might lead to the construction of artificial neural networks for computing applications.

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  1. Dmitri B. Strukov is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.,

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