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Comparing the computer and the brain has been instructive to both computer engineers and neuroscientists.

• Computers are faster with basic operations, at a speed of 10 billion operations per second, while the brain can perform at about a thousand basic operations per ...

The brain is not slow nor imprecise in performing calculations.

For example, a professional tennis player can follow the trajectory of a tennis ball after it is served at speed as high as 160 miles per hour, move to the best spot, position his arm, and swing the racket...

• Traditionally, software required reducing tasks to explicit rules—a framework that worked well for structured systems like customer relationship management.
• However, many complex tasks, like optical character recognition (OCR)...