Finding the Missing Memristor - R. Stanley Williams

[utubesqueeze]

Extremely interesting and somewhat scary lecture. This stuff is so disruptive across so many industries and what he only barely hinted at is that it could all happen a LOT faster than he thinks.

Combine this with graphene and nanotube developments and the future as most people imagine is already around the corner.

In fact, I rather feel sorry for software developers. Everything they know is about to be changed but its the electrical engineers who will get all the glory!

[blahdelablah]

@utubesqueeze

"Everything they know is about to be changed but its the electrical engineers who will get all the glory!"

That's just giving the glory to the people due to receive it!

[Air420]

brilliant

[NotThat3]

Very interesting lecture!

[lotmaakchos]

Would Intel buy HP, just for this patent? Considering HP is running around like a headless chicken right now, it could be very possible. Food for thought.

[fuduzan5562]

I'm essentially pretty certain he essentially used the word 'essentially' essentially at least 100 times, essentially.

[brandoYT]

Sadly, Hurd seems to have mostly destroyed R&D at HP in favor of short term profits for Wall Street - surprised?

[ortcloud99]

this is awesome news, finally we can build the Cyberdyne cpu and get Skynet online.

[soylentgreenb]

@ortcloud99 Sorry, the name "Cyberdyne" has already been scooped up by a japanese company that makes Hybrid-Assistive-Limb technology(... or HAL for short :-) ). It's a sort of exeskeleton robo-suit that is intended for disabled people, search and rescue type operations and heavy manual labour in factories where you'd want a machine to do most of the heavy lifting but you need the brains, flexibility and agility of a person.

[ortcloud99]

this is awesome new, finally we can build the Cyberdyne cpu and get Skynet online.

[duploman1000]

Does this mean I can run crisis?

[danthemanzizzle]

@duploman1000 nope, two words, dual gtx580.

[KawazoeJapan]

If memristors can be used to perform boolean logic, why still use CMOS layers in those circuits?

[epsilontic]

@KawazoeJapan The biggest obstacle currently is the limited lifetime of memristors. At best these devices last for a few million cycles, until the TiO2 degrades so much that there is no hysteresis anymore.

[KittenCollision]

I am incredibly impressed by the entire research set that has been in place here, as well as the possibilities it contains.

One Question: Can it run crysis on maximum settings?

[DaemonPanda]

"A peta bit in a single cm cube".

Holy shit.

[consolemaster]

R. Stanley, you invented Skynet are responsible for the war between humans and AI. Having memristor located near a CPU, and having the CPU transistors replaced with memristors and with infinite bandwidth. We're talking AI!

[Oofloom]

Wow. They can do Boolean logic now? I'm no expert, but I think that means you can theoretically create a one-chip-does-all chip. Instead of having bunches of different hardware designs with different strengths and weaknesses, you could just program a memristor chip to behave like any current transistor-based chip, and it would still be extremely efficient. It would be like having a hammer that could transform into a wrench, screwdriver, level, etc. whenever needed, and work just as well.

[pythro]

@Oofloom I think what you are talking about already exists, look up FPGAs.

[Oofloom]

@pythro Yeah that was one of the first things they tried: making an memristor version of an FPGA. The problem with FPGAs is that you to devote extra transistors/space to make it programmable, so you have less transistors to do the actual work, making them slower than more specialized processors. With memristors you might not have to make that huge sacrifice.

[kriahg90]

The memristor has it's roots in the 1960's. It's not HPs idea...

[2oonhed]

@kriahg90

He said that. They know.

[kriahg90]

@2oonhed Hehe, yeah I was a little bit quick there. I felt I had to write it before he started to talk about the real history. At about 01.11, it didn't look like he was going to cred anyone but the in house staff, my mistake.

Wchounderful piece of info this clip brings! ;) I really enjoyed it!

[martinjpedersen]

Pandoras box have been open, and cant be closed again.

This have both positive and negative potential.

On the negative side, soon we will have a real AI, among us..

[powerone1]

@martinjpedersen...what is negative about "a real AI"?

[martinjpedersen]

@powerone1 you don't see any problems with machines with souls?, if you think we have a problem now with woman rights, gay rights, racism.

Just you wait until some robot goes "i think there for i am".

[powerone1]

@martinjpedersen...what are these "souls" you are speaking of?

[unskeptable]

@martinjpedersen lol machines with souls? relax dude xD

[martinjpedersen]

@unskeptable

I´m quite relaxed, listing to what the presenters of the memristor says, they keep saying "jit reacts ust like a neuron",

so if you build a digital copy of the human brain with memristors, and insert an self learning program. What does it take for the digital brain to become self aware?

Just take a simple example, the Boston Dynamics Mule. When it walked over some ice and self corrected the engineers was surprised how life like it responded.

[martinjpedersen]

@martinjpedersen

just search this presentation

DARPA SyNAPSE - Boston University presentation - August 2010 - part 1.mp4

[unskeptable]

@martinjpedersen Yes it seems very realistic but self awareness is science fiction .Memristor is just a charge-dependent resistance dude we cannot build life with it lol 0.0

[martinjpedersen]

@unskeptable

its just a hardware problem

tinyurl com / yj23ya4

[mytube00x01]

@unskeptable What is life anyway? We are all made of matter which is our vessel. We can't deny that a huge function of our brain is about memory. And this memristor is a step closer to making a working creation of man that is close to the properties of a neuron.

[ndc18]

@mytube00x01 terminator!!!!

[BladeValant546]

Shut up people I don't care who made this system or what not, it will benefit all human kind be happy.....Jesus enough with this political crap....what causes wars and discrimination.

[fruitflyproductions]

He's uh uh uh, uhm a terrible, uhm, public speaker.

[IronChariots]

@fruitflyproductions It's not his job. Most people are terrible public speakers.

[ThePCGuild]

Essentially, essentially, essenstially

[zowki]

The shadow of the microphone on his face is pissing me off.

[pchazard]

@zowki get over it, Monk!

[rthavi]

Seeing things like this makes me thankful I did my time in physics 2. I might not be an engineer or a physicist but I can still understand this stuff.

[drakulva]

So cool. Once again Westerners originate something that the Chinese will now copy.

[drakulva]

So cool. Once again Westerners originate something that the Chinese will now copy.

[TomekTQ]

@drakulva Yeah, about that: Leon Chua, who came up with the theory of memristors, is from the Philippines and part of the Chinese minority in that country.

[drakulva]

@TomekTQ Like they came up with gunpowder but westerners actually built something useful with it? Or printing with crude wood blocks but westerners made something actually useful? Right. Also, he was of course American by domicile and employment.

[onlyAerik]

"winter research review 2010" threw me off b/c I still think of 'winter' as synonymous with 'december' but really the middle is in early february, isn't it.

[biggjacob]

my head asplode

[BobPaul]

@joquarky zoomed out I don't think the slide would be as readable. There was always plenty of time to see the slides, and if you need more time to look at something, there's always pause/screen caps.

[GLeNss]

@Calit2ube I thought you did just fine. Thanks for the upload :D

[jpmorgan187]

Hello Skynet.  :/

[IOIOOIIOIO]

The memristor equation looks like a transformer.

[linuxgeek64]

"uhh uhh uhhh uhhh uhh uhhh" Every three seconds... irritating.

[egokick]

Hwhere. There's no fucking H infront of the word where.

[sundancekid122]

Thats fantastic R. Stanley Williams! Maybe HP and companies alike will start to hire young students in college so we can get some experience instead of just leading us on time after time.

[writingonalake]

It's frustrating when you have to film with only one camera.

[Datastreamx]

@joquarky I agree with joquarky. It is the best to mostly keep the slides in view. And they mostly kept Williams in view.

[Stallion0157]

Shame Leo didn't have Google to search for pinched hysteresis!

[iurak6868]

this is beautiful, i hope more people would see it....

[NSResponder]

It's great to know that Carly Fiorina didn't completely destroy HP Research.

-jcr

[jpmorgan187]

@NSResponder

I was thinking about that too. These smart scientist/engineers must have been embarrassed/frustrated having a nit wit for a boss.

[sonnybmedina]

Your totally wack wwallace This is a fucking great and important video

[Wwallace67]

@sonnybmedina

If you actually want to persuade me, a logical argument backed by facts might be useful.

[Wwallace67]

Re: 38:08 "Everything you learned about logic is probably not correct, because you learned it in an electrical engineering course, and not in a philosophy course, which is the home of logic." What nonsense.

[Wwallace67]

Re: 39:16 The speaker has clearly read the first 7 pages of several books.

BTW, the truth table at 40:14 looks a lot like "not p or q." Set q to 0, and you have a "not p" function. Why not just show how a full adder is implemented, if your target audience is engineers and your goal is to communicate?

Too much arm waving here.

BTW, I have taken symbolic logic from a philosophy department, and an engineering department. Neither covered Bertrand Russell.

Wild claims, little substance.

[EasternMerchant]

@Wwallace67 Wallace, he said from the beginning of the session that he was not going into detail with any particular topic.

[Wwallace67]

@EasternMerchant @EasternMerchant

Telling everybody you're an arm waver before waving your arms for 45 minutes isn't a very strong defense.

If he doesn't understand boolean logic, and has only read 7 mages of Bertrand Russell's "tome", why does he proceed to talk as though he actually knows anything, making absurd and patently false pontifications about "material implication" and logic as taught in Philosophy versus Engineering.

[EasternMerchant]

@Wwallace67 tell me....... what scientist, engineer....etc. truly does what they do for a living if it wasn't for some philosophical inspiration? He's trying to shake the very core of their deepest aspirations and help them to embrace this technology with an open mind!

[EasternMerchant]

@Wwallace67 we can have technical meetings any day! But, this is food for the soul!

[KawazoeJapan]

@EasternMerchant Food? Nah... this is just an appetizer! The real food will come when we'll get to play with those.