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Small project: My First Neuron

Transferable competencies
Computing by means of neurons is qualitatively different than using algorithms, which are currently taught in schools and universities. Instead of step-by-step, synchronised operations on clearly defined data sets, neuron networks work parallel in real time. To build future intelligent systems students need to learn this new type of programming.

Abstract

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Computing by means of neurons is qualitatively different than using algorithms, which are currently taught in schools and universities. Instead of step-by-step, synchronised operations on clearly defined data sets, neuron networks work parallel in real time and do not differentiate clearly between data and algorithms. To build future intelligent systems students need to learn this new type of programming. Because neurons are very small and have little relation to the everyday, this can be very difficult for students. In the «My First Neuron» project we will develop a construction kit of hugely enlarged and simplified «neurons». Here students can build physical networks and link them with sensors and actuators. To build a successful system students must solve the same problems which real neurons must overcome: the linking of different computing components in a functional whole, under the given physical limitations.

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