Blogging the Noosphere

Rest in Peace Pappert.

Pappert: 1990-2008

She was a good cat.

As I’ve been saying recently to many students, CS really is a fourth new fundamental science. I submit for your consideration this article in the NY Times. Looks like all kinds of interesting posibilities for computing with this fundamental new basic circuit, and appears from their reports this is not at all theoretical, but they have already got practical implementations of the described circuit element.

For those wanting more detail, the Nature article Memristor - The Missing Circuit Element by the HP team making the discovery.

Also, Chua’s original article speculating about the posibility of the Memristor.