I’m thrilled to announce that I’m up for two Aurora Awards this year! Fireboy is on the ballot for Best Young Adult Novel, and The Worldshapers is once again on the ballot for Best Fan …
I spent a good chunk of today at Wordbridge, the annual writers’ conference in Lethbridge, Alberta. My main reason for coming was to launch a Shadowpaw Press title (Broken Realm by Jenna Greene, a Lethbridge …
This is Easter weekend; last weekend, I sang in the Easter concert of First Baptist Church here in Regina as a guest soloist and chorister. The whole concert is worth listening to, but if you’d …
I put a link to this in the previous post on my Aurora-eligible work for 2025, but wanted to highlight it. This was my contribution to the Shapers of Worlds Volume V anthology, and it …
The Aurora Awards are Canada’s best-known science fiction and fantasy awards, voted on by fans every year. I’ve been fortunate enough to win twice, for Marseguro (DAW Books) (soon coming out in a new edition from Tuscany …
Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
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Brain on a chip
A Stanford bioengineering professor is trying to create a silicon computer that works as efficiently as the human brain. (Via Defense Tech.)
I like this quote:
Although it would be easy to frame Boahen’s research—recreating the brain—as the stuff of science fiction, he says he prefers to focus on its practical applications.
“I’m not driven by the sci-fi thing,” he said. “It’s probably because I grew up in Ghana and, by the time I was exposed to it, I was too critical. I’m sort of a nuts-and-bolts guy.”
That’s all right. There are plenty of us who are driven by that “sci-fi thing.” In this case, driven to say, “Cool!”
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2006/03/brain-on-a-chip/
