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Bates's chip

Bates's chip is a theoretical chip proposed by MIT Media Lab's computer scientist Joseph Bates that would incorporate fuzzy logic to do calculations. The resulting calculations would be less accurate, though they would be performed significantly faster.

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Bates's chip (also called a sloppy chip or fuzzy chip) is a theoretical chip proposed by MIT Media Lab's computer scientist Joseph Bates that would incorporate fuzzy logic to do calculations. The resulting calculations would be less accurate, though they would be performed significantly faster.12

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  1. Bennett, Drake (January 28, 2011). "Innovator: Joseph Bates - BusinessWeek". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
  2. Hardesty, Larry (January 3, 2011). "The surprising usefulness of sloppy arithmetic". MIT News Office. Archived from the original on 29 January 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2011.