Can bioengineering immitate the analog to digital conversion performed by our inner ear?
How do organs such as the inner ear deal with the imprecision of analog computing?
If analog computing is so marvelously efficient, why is almost every electronic system you come accross digital?
Do brain cells share interesting characteristics with subthreshold transistors and how can it be effectively used?
By Rahul Sarpeshkar, IEEE’s Spectrum Issue May 2006
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Biological neural networks are large systems of complex elements interacting through a complex array of connections.
How do we describe and interpret the activity of a large
population of neurons and how do we model neural circuits when:
o individual neurons are such complex elements and
o our knowledge of the synaptic connections is so incomplete?
A review paper by L.F. Abbott
Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02254
Published in Quart. Rev. Biophys. 27:291-331 (1994)
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