gooware
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gooware (uncountable)
- An unconventional computer based on a semi-solid chemical "soup" where data are represented by varying concentrations of chemicals. The computations are performed by naturally occurring chemical reactions.
- 2005 March 6, Graham-Rowe, Duncan, “Glooper computer”, in New Scientist[1], volume 185, number 2492:
- He wants to use his gooware to create a hugely powerful parallel processor: a liquid robot brain in which metal and wire are replaced by a blob of jelly.
- 2006, Andrew Adamatzky, “Reaction-Diffusion Reactive Wetware”, in Tamio Arai, editor, Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, IOS Press, page 3:
- We pinpoint all essential ingredients of intelligence found in spatio-temporal dynamics of nonlinear chemical systems, and show outlines of future designs and protypes of chemical intelligent "gooware".