Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов I курса всех факультетов. Часть 2. Богданова Н.А - 85 стр.

time-tables, games and puzzles are just some of the subjects currently on offer.
Everything is done automatically.
     Called "Prestel", the system works by linking a Post Office computer to a
special type of television receiver using the subscriber's own telephone line.
"Prestel" currently off era nearly two hundred thousand pages of detailed
information on subjects ranging from "amusements" to "employment statistics".
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                       DEVELOPMENT OF NEUROCOMPUTERS

       Information processes are executed by information processors. For a given
information processor, whether physical or biological, a token is an object, devoid
of meaning that the processor recognizes as being totally different from other
tokens. A group of such unique tokens recognized by a processor constitutes its
basic "alphabet"; e.g. the dot, dash, and space constitute the basic token alphabet of
a Morse-code processor. Objects that carry meaning are represented by patterns of
tokens called symbols. The latter combine to form symbolic expressions that
constitute inputs or outputs from information processors and are stored in the
processor memory.
        Because it has been recognized that in nature information processes are not
strictly sequential, increasing attention has been focused since 1980 on the study of
the human brain as en information processor of the parallel type. In the past 50
years there has been a great increase in the amount of research being done on the
brain Chemists and biologists have found that the way the brain works is far more
complicated then they had thought. In fact many people believe that we are only
now really starting to learn the truth about how the human brain works. The more
scientists find out, the more questions they are unable to answer. For instance,
chemists have found that over 100,000 chemical reactions take place in the brain
every second. Scientists hope that if we can discover how the brain works, the
better use we will be able to put it to. For example, how do we learn language? Man
differs most from all the other animals in his ability to learn and use language, but
we still do not know exactly how this is done. Earlier scientists thought that during