About the Authors
- Michael Alexander Nugent
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* E-mail: i@alexnugent.name
Affiliations M. Alexander Nugent Consulting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, KnowmTech LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Xeiam LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Timothy Wesley Molter
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Affiliations M. Alexander Nugent Consulting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, KnowmTech LLC, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America, Xeiam LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors of this paper have a financial interest in the technology derived from the work presented in this paper. Patents include the following: US6889216, Physical neural network design incorporating nanotechnology; US6995649, Variable resistor apparatus formed utilizing nanotechnology; US7028017, Temporal summation device utilizing nanotechnology; US7107252, Pattern recognition utilizing a nanotechnology-based neural network; US7398259, Training of a physical neural network; US7392230, Physical neural network liquid state machine utilizing nanotechnology; US7409375, Plasticity-induced self organizing nanotechnology for the extraction of independent components from a data stream; US7412428, Application of hebbian and anti-hebbian learning to nanotechnology-based physical neural networks; US7420396, Universal logic gate utilizing nanotechnology; US7426501, Nanotechnology neural network methods and systems; US7502769, Fractal memory and computational methods and systems based on nanotechnology; US7599895, Methodology for the configuration and repair of unreliable switching elements; US7752151, Multilayer training in a physical neural network formed utilizing nanotechnology; US7827131, High density synapse chip using nanoparticles; US7930257, Hierarchical temporal memory utilizing nanotechnology; US8041653, Method and system for a hierarchical temporal memory utilizing a router hierarchy and hebbian and anti-hebbian learning; US8156057, Adaptive neural network utilizing nanotechnology-based components. Additional patents are pending. Authors of the paper are owners of the commercial companies performing this work. Companies include the following: Cover Letter; KnowmTech LLC, Intellectual Property Holding Company: Author Alex Nugent is a Co-owner; M. Alexander Nugent Consulting, Research and Development: Author Alex Nugent is owner and Tim Molter employee; Xeiam LLC, Technical Architecture: Authors Tim Molter and Alex Nugent are co-owners. Products resulting from the technology described in this paper are currently being developed. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors agree to make freely available any materials and data described in this publication that may be reasonably requested for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research. As part of this, the authors have open-sourced all code and data used to generated the results of this paper under a “M. Alexander Nugent Consulting Research License”.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MAN TWM. Performed the experiments: MAN TWM. Analyzed the data: MAN TWM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAN TWM. Wrote the paper: MAN TWM.