Unlike a silicon CPU, the brain isnt a synchronous device that needs regular clock pulses to keep its operations in step, but we can get a sense of its effective clock speed by seeing how long it take

Weve all heard of artificial intelligence, but how much like a PC is your brain? Jack Weber investigates. Doug Quaid wanted a holiday on Mars. A holiday hed always remember. In the film T

The advent of brain scans in the 1970s made it easier to find damage, but today its possible to observe the thought processes of healthy individuals almost as they happen. Two scanning te

The work of McCulloch and Pitts was critically important in changing our conception of the brain. They made it possible to think of the brain as a network of interacting cells that could be analysed l

As neural controllers grow in popularity, so will hackers attempts to create malicious code to potentially corrupt, control and infiltrate our brains. So, what are the experts doing about it?

New technique predicts actions before they take place.

University of Manchester to build brain style computer.

Scientists working for IBM have announced they have programmed a supercomputer with a working simulation of a cat’s brain

It is in your head

US futurologist predicts official arrival of artificial intelligence.

Security expert Black Hat USA 2009 conference that the human brain is not suited to IT security in the modern world..

One of the more immediate objections people tend to have to the idea of artificial intelligence, is that the brain is a massively complex structure, and we, as yet, cannot build similarly complicated

As the picture of the brains structure became clearer, it began to look very much like a trunk telephone network. Its not surprising that by the mid-20th century the brain was often described by analo

Boffins use arcade game to research fight or flight reflex.

Does this bring us any closer to those sci-fi visions of brain-dumps and memory implants? Well, yes and no. Bionic systems to provide sight and hearing or to operate an artificial limb directly by tho

School trial claims beneficial results in maths.

Thankfully none called Dr Zaius.

Boffins monitor brain reward centres during game play.

Earlier walking robots had a more serious side: to discover more about the human brain. Shakey, for example, emerged from the Stanford Research Institute (now SRIs artificial intelligence centre) in 1

The biggest problem with modern robotics is not the mechanisms, its the intelligence behind the mechanisms. Matching the human sense of balance is a major challenge, for example. Enter cy