AND Corporation was incorporated in 1992. AND Corporation developed Holographic Neural Technology (HNeT), the technology based upon complex-valued phase coherence/decoherence principles in the emulation of neurological learning and function. The company has been active primarily in the object recognition and biometrics application areas. AND Corporation is based in
Toronto, Ontario
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
, Canada.
Origin
In 1992 the Wiley Series on Sixth Generation Computing Technologies published the book "Fuzzy, Holographic and Parallel Intelligence, The Sixth Generation Breakthrough" which introduces the technology. The author of the article John Sutherland is the founder of AND Corporation. The technology provides holographic superposition of associative information through digital emulation of wave functions. Having recognized the highly advanced learning and storage capacities for associative memory applying these principles, the company received international patents (priority date 1988) for conversion of information to the complex phase representation, and application of complex valued inner and outer products with phase conjugation in the operation of learning and recall. The technology is analogous to
quantum computing
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
with respect to superposition of information.
Products
The first version of the HNeT Application Development System was released in 1990 and published in 1991 which contained a number of example applications, based on the complex valued phase coherence/decoherence process. Among these applications were the complex valued Hopfield network or complex associative memory, which was discovered by S. Jankowski in 1996 according to A. Hirose et al.
[Hirose A. (2003), Complex Valued Neural Networks, Academic Press, New York, .] The concepts initially developed and applied within the HNeT technology form the basis for several related academic fields; these referred to by the acronyms
Quantum neural network
Quantum neural networks are computational neural network models which are based on the principles of quantum mechanics. The first ideas on quantum neural computation were published independently in 1995 by Subhash Kak and Ron Chrisley, engaging w ...
(QNN),
Holographic associative memory
For holographic data storage, Holographic associative memory (HAM) is an information storage and retrieval system based on the principles of holography. Holograms are made by using two beams of light, called a "reference beam" and an "object beam ...
(HAM), Complex Associative Memory (CAM) and Complex Valued Neural Networks (CVNN).
AND Corporation provides the HNeT Application Development System to government and research institutions on a research basis. The company's primary business activities center on application development and licensing of the HNeT technology. An example of one applied application area of the HNeT technology is in the biometrics (facial recognition) area where the technology has been licensed to Acsys Biometrics. HNeT provides a full
Neuromorphic
Neuromorphic engineering, also known as neuromorphic computing, is the use of electronic circuits to mimic neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system. A neuromorphic computer/chip is any device that uses physical artificial n ...
model of the brain, however is applied principally using simpler substructures based on the
cerebellar
The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates. Although usually smaller than the cerebrum, in some animals such as the mormyrid fishes it may be as large as or even larger. In humans, the cerebel ...
model.
References
External links
AND Corporation website
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Companies based in Toronto
Technology companies established in 1992
1992 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1992