In his native Israel last year, he launched a startup called Better Place that allows electric-car users to swap their drained battery for a new fully charged one at a network of "switch stations" at the same time as it would take to fill a car with petrol.
The original neural field model of Wilson and Cowan is often interpreted as the averaged behaviour of a network of switch like neural elements with a distribution of switch thresholds, giving rise to the classic sigmoidal population firing-rate function so prevalent in large scale neuronal modelling.
In 1972 Kahn moved to DARPA as a program manager in the Information Processing Techniques Office IPTOO), where he began to envision a network of packet-switching networks—essentially, what would become the Internet.
A large-scale switch is constructed from a network of 2×2 optical switch elements (SEs).
At Princeton, Turing took the first steps toward building a working model of his imaginary computer, pondering how to realize its logical design in a network of relay-operated switches; he even managed to get into a machine shop in the physics department and construct some of the relays himself.
The fruit fly Drosophila has daily or circadian rhythms of behavior, which are controlled by a network of genes that are switched 'on' or 'off' at different times in every 24-hr period.
Modern telecommunications networks avoid these issues by establishing a linked network of switches, or nodes, such that each user is connected to one of the nodes.
A comprehensive network of switch stations removes the problem of so-called "range anxiety", when drivers fear their car will run out of juice.
Bearded professors scurry through the forest between their labs along meandering pathways, switching to a network of underground tunnels in winter.
Well, it turns out Carrier EE (the only with with a 4G network right now) is delivering, partnering with the Tech City Investment Organisation, and is switching on a network of "double-speed" 4G hotspots.
