Comments on: U.S. military to use memristors for neural computing http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Forrest Bennett http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867432 Forrest Bennett Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:30:38 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867432 I was reminded by Blaise Mouttet that I neglected to mention Bernie Woodrow's 3 terminal device that functions just like a memristor, and was built in 1960. Though it was not a solid state device. He also gave a link to a solid state memristor built in 1968 by F. Argall, 3 years before Chua coined the term. It was constructed of doped Titanium Dioxide, somewhat similar to HP's device. You can see from the current-voltage behavior of the device that it is exactly a memristor. http://pdf.com.ru/a/ky1300.pdf I was reminded by Blaise Mouttet that I neglected to mention Bernie Woodrow’s 3 terminal device that functions just like a memristor, and was built in 1960. Though it was not a solid state device.

He also gave a link to a solid state memristor built in 1968 by F. Argall, 3 years before Chua coined the term. It was constructed of doped Titanium Dioxide, somewhat similar to HP’s device. You can see from the current-voltage behavior of the device that it is exactly a memristor. http://pdf.com.ru/a/ky1300.pdf

]]> By: Forrest Bennett http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867402 Forrest Bennett Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:35:02 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867402 Forgive my pedantry, but if you look into the history of this they didn't actually create the first memristor in 2008. Rather, they were the first group to create memristors *on purpose*. As Williams himself reports in other lectures and papers, people had been creating memristor devices for decades, but just hadn't realized it. Williams' group was probably the first to actually realize that these devices were the same ones that had been described by Chua and dubbed the "memristor" back in 1971. Forgive my pedantry, but if you look into the history of this they didn’t actually create the first memristor in 2008. Rather, they were the first group to create memristors *on purpose*. As Williams himself reports in other lectures and papers, people had been creating memristor devices for decades, but just hadn’t realized it. Williams’ group was probably the first to actually realize that these devices were the same ones that had been described by Chua and dubbed the “memristor” back in 1971.

]]> By: The memristor rises; commercialization and academic research in the US; carbon nanotubes could be made safer than we thought « FrogHeart http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867398 The memristor rises; commercialization and academic research in the US; carbon nanotubes could be made safer than we thought « FrogHeart Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:26:05 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3827#comment-867398 [...] turn it back on). In the longer term, they talk about hardware being able to learn. (Thanks to the Foresight Institute for the latest update on the memristor story and the pointer to HPlus.) Do visit the HPlus site as [...] [...] turn it back on). In the longer term, they talk about hardware being able to learn. (Thanks to the Foresight Institute for the latest update on the memristor story and the pointer to HPlus.) Do visit the HPlus site as [...]

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