Efforts aimed at using the three billion letters of genetic instructions to understand the causes of disease and develop treatments will now begin in earnest. Researchers confirmed that 97 percent of the genome had been mapped, but said understanding the map and applying it to medicine represents the next milestone. We have discovered the human alphabet. What we now have to do is put the letters in the right order and make a sentence. The chip, which could someday be used to create computers that perform tasks such as sight recognition, consists of artificial neurons that communicate with each other through synapses similar to those in the brain's neural system.
Much work still needs to be done to create an artificial brain, say the scientists.
While a human can simultaneously process analog information about an object, such as its size, color and spatial position, and digital data concerning an either-or decision, such as whether it is a tree or not, artificial neurons only respond to one stimulus at a time. Part of the deal includes the cessation of a patent-infringement suit filed by CFM against Steag that led to the German firm being barred from selling its products in the United States. The reports help Web publishers and e-commerce companies refine their sites, and are used by advertisers in deciding where to market their products. Jupiter specializes in market research and strategic analysis for e-commerce companies. If approved, the merger would make Texas Instruments the No. 2 maker of the a-d chips behind Analog Devices Inc., and the No. 3 maker of amplifier chips used to detect and enhance signals.