PROCESSING (Parallel distributed)
Charles François (2004). PROCESSING (Parallel distributed), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2659.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2659 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
The simultaneous processing of numerous different data in different parts of a network.
Such seems to be basically the way the brain does process the sensorial inputs. While a digital computer works at a pace measured in billionths of seconds, neurons work at the pace of merely thousands of seconds. But in about a tenth of a second, the brain recognizes anyone of a fabulous number of features of many kinds. This is a result of teamwork among groups of neurons sharing parts of the task. This is the basis of connectionism, whose concepts are now applied with increasing success to build the so-called connection machines.