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Individual Report

Neuromorphic technology

Computer chips that mimic the human brain.

Short Introduction for Neuromorphic technology: 

Neuromorphic engineering, also known as neuromorphic computing, is a concept developed by Carver Mead, in the late 1980s, describing the use of very-large-scale integration (VLSI) systems containing electronic analog circuits to mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system.

In recent times the term neuromorphic has been used to describe analog, digital, mixed-mode analog/digital VLSI, and software systems that implement models of neural systems (for perception, motor control, or multisensory integration). The implementation of neuromorphic computing on the hardware level can be realized by oxide-based memristors, threshold switches, and transistors.

Neuromorphic engineering is an interdisciplinary subject that takes inspiration from biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and electronic engineering to design artificial neural systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems, auditory processors, and autonomous robots, whose physical architecture and design principles are based on those of biological nervous systems. 

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rival the sophistication of the human brain. Computers are linear, moving data back and forth between memory chips and a central processor over a high-speed backbone. The brain, on the other hand, is fully interconnected, with logic and memory intimately cross-linked at billions of times the density and diversity of that found in a modern computer. Neuromorphic chips aim to process information in a fundamentally different way from traditional hardware, mimicking the brain’s architecture to deliver a huge increase in a computer’s thinking and responding power.

Miniaturization has delivered massive increases in conventional computing power over the years, but the bottleneck of shifting data constantly between stored memory and central processors uses large amounts of energy and creates unwanted heat, limiting further improvements. In contrast, neuromorphic chips can be more energy efficient and powerful, combining data-storage and data-processing components into the same interconnected modules. In this sense, the system copies the networked neurons that, in their billions, make up the human brain.

Neuromorphic technology will be the next stage in powerful computing, enabling vastly more rapid processing of data and a better capacity for machine learning. IBM’s million-neuron TrueNorth chip, revealed in prototype in August 2014, has a power efficiency for certain tasks that is hundreds of times superior to a conventional CPU (Central Processing Unit), and more comparable for the first time to the human cortex. With vastly more compute power available for far less energy and volume, neuromorphic chips should allow more intelligent small-scale machines to drive the next stage in miniaturization and artificial intelligence.

Potential applications include: drones better able to process and respond to visual cues, much more powerful and intelligent cameras and smartphones, and data-crunching on a scale that may help unlock the secrets of financial markets or climate forecasting. Computers will be able to anticipate and learn, rather than merely respond in pre-programmed ways.

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This is my summary report about Neuromorphic technology  :) RMBBitantes HUMSS 11-A    

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App Review

This application official name I review is Wunderlist: To-do List and Tasks version 3.4.8. The developer of this app is the 6 Wunderkinder GmbH, and Wunderlist’s CEO Christian Reber. Christian Reber is the heart-driven founder, serial entrepreneur and driving force behind 6Wunderkinder. 

With his main roles as CEO and product manager he is fully realizing his childhood dream of building a company that not only creates software that is functional, but also cutting-edge and sexy.Christian has been a software developer since the age of 12 and studied 7 programming languages. In 2004, he developed a small piece of software named USB-Access, which enabled users to use their USB-Stick like a car-key for their PC.In 2007, he founded a startup named Mucelli that began as a self-run technical experiment. Mucelli eventually grew into a fully-fledged company with 4 employees and more than 200,000 users after 4 months. Christian decided to sell Mucelli to a small German investor. The team renamed the company to Innovatics and worked as a popular German web agency for the next 3 years. During this period the team of 6Wunderkinder was quickly formed.Prior to his work, Christian studied Mathematics & Computer Science as well as International Management at the University of Economy and Management in Berlin.

As a user I can sign in and use Wunderlist in a web browser. Wunderlist can also be downloaded for a number of devices, and I was able to download this app on Android phones and tablets, Wunderlist is a free application and you have nothing to pay or subscribe the only thing you can do is to make your own account for you to use the application. 

How was it? and what is the basic functionality? First there was a prioritize with tags. Starring a to-do is a simple way to mark something as important. But what happens when you need more prioritization levels? You can use tags. Want to prioritize by #A, #B, #C or #1, #2, #3 levels or #High, #Medium, #Low? Figure out what suits you and then put the tags at the beginning of your to-do. You can then sort alphabetically to see all your priorities sorted into batches. You can also connect Wunderlist with your favorite apps. We have all sorts of interesting and useful integrations that can help us be more productive from Slack to Google Now, with Zapier and HipChat in between. Click on the links to learn how you can connect Wunderlist with your favorite apps. And you can discover all your Smart Lists. You can see all your to-dos in  go, just head to the app settings to get started. You can even change the settings so that you only see the to-dos that are assigned to you and on your own private lists if you don’t want to be distracted by everyone else’s to-dos. You can also Save for later with Add to Wunderlist.  With Add to Wunderlist you can save any webpage of interest to one of your lists. So whenever you come across an interesting things you want to try just click on the extension and it will be saved in your Wunderlist for future reference. And one of my likes is the keep your lists quiet. If you need to concentrate on the task at hand and don’t want to be disturbed by a particular shared list then hit the ‘Do not disturb’ button. It’ll stop notifying you that your other half has just completed on your shopping list. The best bit, is that you’ll still get reminders and notifications about the to-dos assigned to you. and when you want to track their movements, just hit that Do not Disturb button again.

And for the audience/users of this application, what I noticed is mostly a businessman, a teachers, and a students, basically the users can be anyone because this application can helps you remember everything what you need to do in everyday life. It helps you to finish one thing in your list, and as students I can use it for reminding me for having projects to be passed or finished on a certain day. 

For the visual design I find it for myself  that this app has an eye catching design and background. It has nature or something like a tower background , I think it is a tower from berlin, I really like the background design I don’t really know why but it gives me a relaxing mind set every time I see it.

And for the sound design, it has the sound of an alarm and every time I heard the alarm set ring I was automatically panicked and set the alarm off. I also found the sound design interesting because the alarm sounds is really cool for me. 

What I like mostly in this app is everything on it I don’t know why but I find it just perfectly fine but there is something bothering me I really can’t find it what is it because I feel like there was something missing for this application that’s why I Rate it only Four star. 

And that’s it! For my App Review thank you for reading patiently for this blog! :D 

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Self-introduction

If you have time to think of a beautiful end, then live beautifully until the end. Annyeong-haseyo! Hi I'm Ruby Mae Baltazar Bitantes they call me Armae, I'm Sixteen years old I'm a senior high students I'm a girl who loves to read, sleep, draw, Acting, sing and discovered many weird and mysteriously things. I'm a Christian, A Filipino citizen and I'm a Professional Banyo singer I’m studying more about English to professionalize for the future I really love reading fanfiction, fantasy, mystery, horror, psycho, romance and classic. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done. I have a fear of speed bump but I'm slowly getting over it. Sometimes I prefer to use my face for emoticons. I like my bed. I'm not concerned about my age, I don't feel a day over fabulous! I wish I was a little kid so I could take a long nap, and when I wake up people would just be proud of me. Not everyone likes me. But not everyone matters. If you don't like me, but you follow everything I do, darling you're a fan! . Love me, hate me - either way, you're spending your time thinking of me! There's always that one person who is going to annoy me every time they open their mouth. Deep conversations with someone who understands me, is everything. If you're cooler than me, does that make me hotter than you? If time is money, I am running out of time. I'm half princess, half ninja, deal with it! If I'm sad, sometimes I'll sing to myself to try to cheer myself up, but my singing is so bad, usually I end up feeling worse. I cross my fingers and hope I fit into my jeans. I'm almost perfect, When I heavily edit my selfies. And WARNING I have an attitude and I know how to use it! I wish I could donate my body fat to those in need. I'm not the sort of person you should put on speakerphone. I'm so HOT, I make fire! Joke! Let me be me... Because once I change, you will miss the 'me' in me. Sometimes I feel quite intelligent. Other times I have to sing the ABCs in my head to remember which letter comes next. I love it when song lyrics totally apply to my current situation.If you tickle me, I am not responsible for your injuries. When I get lonely, I set my phone's alarm to go off every few hours so I can imagine what it would be like to have people texting me. And I believe the road to success is always under construction, so just wait. For the serious matter I don't like to say weakness but I like to say scope for improvement that it is I won't leave any ask in completely, I believe in my self and my hard work. My strength are my attitude that I like to take challenges that I can do it, my way of thinking that I take both success and a failure in a balance manner. So this is all I can say about me myself and my likes and attitude I hope you enjoyed knowing about me.