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...also in time. Neuroscientists have long known that consciousness depends on certain frequencies of oscillation in the electroencephalograph (EEG). These brain waves consist of loops of activation between the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They...
...ideas of input-output greatly helped administrators and researchers understand economics, and increase levels of efficiency and profitability," said Robert Dorfman, Wells Professor of Political Economy and a close friend of Leontief...
Leontief taught at NYU as the Director of the Institute of Economic Analysis until his retirement in 1990. He continued to do research on economic input-output analysis, advising many foreign countries, including China, to increase their industrial production...
...make things worse, by the early 90s Intel had begun to turn a lucrative profit on the so-called motherboard chipset that supported the CPU. Manufacturers had to build bulky, awkward system boards to house Intel's CPU and its separate input-output chips...
Pondering the difficulty, Hoff was suddenly struck by a novel idea. Why not place most of the calculator's arithmetic and logic circuitry on one chip of silicon, leaving mainly input-output and programming units on separate chips? It was a daring conceptual move. After wrestling with the design, Hoff and his associates at Intel finally concentrated nearly all the elements of a central processing unit (CPU), the computer's electronic heart and soul, on a single silicon chip...