Your head is miles ahead Article appeared in SPP Biotechnology prospects. Conventional IT systems are based on a memory function and precise rules of procedure. The more complicated the interplay of these two aspects becomes, the less efficient the computer is likely to be. As so often, nature has a better solution. The human brain is now computer scientists' yardstick.
Brain cells combine memory and operational functions into one immense cooperative network.
This flexibility makes the human brain so efficient and puts it miles ahead of any computer. IT specialists want to intensify their joint research with neurologists, in an effort to apply the brain's operating principles to computers. In autumn 1994, the ETH and the University of Zurich signed an agreement on creation of a new Neuroinformatics Institute. For reasons of synergy, this module will be combined in SPPB phase II with the bioelectronics research described in the following section. System-neurophysiology is the study of the theories underlying biological nervous systems.