Searching for Memories

We're constantly inundated with information from our laptops, smartphones, and tablets. It's the era of big data. "The challenge for the future is not that we will have a problem of how to store information," says Caltech's Shuki Bruck. "The challenge is that we will not know what we have."

An electrical engineer by training, Bruck calls himself an "informationist." He's developing better ways for computers to process, access, and use information. Although most of his career has been spent thinking about silicon-based computers, Bruck is now finding inspiration in a different kind of computer: the human brain. By understanding and mimicking the brain, he says, we can design computers that can better access and manage information.

Read the full story in E&S