The ability of the human brain to select only relevant data for a given task has inspired EU-funded researchers to develop new processing technologies for the world of Big Data. The breakthrough could lead to quicker medical diagnoses, more effective security measures and more accurate climate modelling.
Advances in ICT have transformed our economic and social lives. We are now able to bring distant people together in an instant, remotely coordinate disaster response, implement new medical diagnoses and treatments and achieve more accurate weather predictions and climate modelling. While all this – and much more – has been made possible by sustained computer performance improvements, standard processors simply cannot keep up with the exponential growth of data. This has pushed demand for the development of new fast, compact, low consumption processors.
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