Similarly, one might improve the flow of information through the Internet by introducing a few random links between backbone computers on the Internet, he said.
Did you know that the fundamental backbone of computers, the stuff that actually represents the bits, are nanoscale electronic devices?
The Internet, telecommunications, what I would describe as the telecommunications backbone companies, computers, semiconductors, software.
According to the blog, Kobe University's Yukio-Pegio Gunji and colleagues discovered when two swarms of crabs meet, they merge and "continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities", which could be used to form AND, OR, and NOT logic functions -- the basic logic backbone for computers.
"We hack network backbones — like huge Internet routers, basically — that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," he told the paper.
"This is not your grandfather's F.A.A.," he said, citing a new computer backbone for air traffic control that is now being installed, and improvements in tracking planes over the oceans.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the backbone of modern computer vision techniques.
Until two years ago, hiring outsiders to run a business' computer backbone was a costly option.
While microprocessors made by the likes of Intel and AMD get all the glory, chipsets form the silicon backbone of a computer.
The theory of formal languages is widely recognized as the backbone of theoretical computer science, originating from mathematics and generative linguistics, among others.
