Scientists are growing tiny clumps of living human brain cells and using them to power computers. The emerging field, known as biocomputing or wetware, is being explored by a handful of research ...

In a lab rack that looks more like a high-end audio system than a server, clusters of human brain cells are quietly learning to process information. Electrodes feed them signals, nutrients keep them ...

Paul Allen’s Seattle museums are getting a face-lift. As the EMP Museum at Seattle Center became the Museum of Pop Culture on Tuesday, a few miles down the road in Sodo members of the media were ...

The use of computers as props brings authenticity to works on the big and small screens, and can also inspire many different feelings in the viewer. Early filmmakers contributed powerful visions of ...

The brain is powerful, and computers are powerful—why not harness their strength combined? Researchers at the University of Illinois (UIUC) have built a “living computer” using mouse brain cells in a ...

It’s pretty easy to tell how each day is going for Bruce Sherry, Principle Engineer at Paul Allen’s Living Computer Museum (LCM). As LCM’s self-labeled “Techromancer,” the veteran of such companies as ...

In 2017 I went up to Seattle for PAX as usual, and while I was up there I heard about the Living Computer Museum, an institution in southern Seattle founded by Paul Allen to preserve PC history. I ...

This is part of an ongoing series on Seattle Museum Month. See our complete coverage so far, and check back later this month for more. There's one rule at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle: ...