Entry 5---> “Kwabena Boahen on a Computer that Works like a Brain”

Kwabena Boahen, a professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University is favored for his research on computer technology. Through his research he has given many the ability to understand how computers process their information. When presenting his findings Boahen reveals that computer processors are inefficient compared to the human brain. The human brain can process the same amount of information as the world’s largest computer and it can do this with less energy! Instead of utilizing a constant flow of energy like a computer, the brain uses sparks of electricity which flow throughout a neuron and transfer memory into the brain. Even though humans attempt to absorb so much information from a computer, I find it ironic that it is the computer which is attempting to learn from the humans. Researchers much like professor Boahen are trying to duplicate the process in which the human brain processes information and they are attempting to form a computer which processes information through the form in which a human brain processes its information. Boahen was able to do this with the human eye. Boahen created a mechanical eye developed for the computer; understanding that pictures are developed through rods and cones located in the human eye, Boahen manipulated this system and developed a number code which the computer would be able to comprehend. The eye is still in its developing stages but as Boahens research progresses so will his mechanical eye. The understanding of how to develop efficient computer is coming to an end and with that end will come a new era of computer technology.