Chaotic Computing In Practice

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 5, 2004 @04:30AM from the using-the-machines dept.

codyhess writes "The Economist published a great article detailing efforts to use Chaos in computing - "Speaking at the American Physical Society's annual March conference, William Ditto of the University of Florida told of his efforts to create a 'chaotic computer'." Dr. Ditto can create standard logic gates (AND, OR, etc) that output a value according the their chaotic threshhold. Different logic operations can be performed by simply changing the threshhold, making an incredibly flexible computer that can perfom different functions instantaneously."

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Re:Argh! by Dan667 · 2004-04-05 04:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Obviously, they used parts of blood sucking worms to build an early version.
Re:I just wanted to say ... by Bingo+Foo · 2004-04-05 05:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You do know what "nerd" means, don't you?
Here on Slashdot, it apparently it means "immature, vitriolic, intolerant person with inverted scheduling priorities and bad hygiene."

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taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!