wetware

wetware
Surgically implanted hardware.

The pacemaker is my latest piece of wetware.


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  • Wetware — may refer to: Wetware (brain), brain Wetware (biology), biological tools and parts Wetware (novel), a 1988 Rudy Rucker biopunk novel Wetware (album), a 2000 album by The Cassandra Complex (band) This disambiguation page lists articles associated… …   Wikipedia

  • wetware — [“wetwer] n. the human brain. (Compared to computer hardware and software.) □ This isn’t a hardware problem; it’s a wetware problem. □ You need to update your wetware …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • wetware — Surgically implanted hardware. The pacemaker is my latest piece of wetware …   Dictionary of american slang

  • Wetware hacker — A wetware hacker is one who experiments with biological materials to advance knowledge, and does so in a spirit of creative improvisation.The word wetware refers to biological materials, by analogy to the words hardware, software, and firmware.… …   Wikipedia

  • Wetware (novel) — infobox Book | name = Wetware title orig = translator = image caption = Cover of first edition (paperback) author = Rudy Rucker illustrator = cover artist = Joe Devito country = United States language = English series = Ware Tetralogy genre =… …   Wikipedia

  • Wetware computer — A wetware computer is an organic computer (also known as an artificial organic brain or a neurocomputer) built from living neurons. Professor Bill Ditto, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is the primary researcher driving the creation of… …   Wikipedia

  • wetware — noun Etymology: wet + software Date: 1975 the human brain or a human being considered especially with respect to human logical and computational capabilities …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • wetware — noun a) A human brain or mind as a computing element. Coined as a parallel to hardware and software. Common in the cyberspace genre of science fiction. b) The underlying generative …   Wiktionary

  • wetware — ● ►en n. m. ►WARE logiciel humide, c est à dire le logiciel humain, donc grosso modo, les cerveaux qui codent …   Dictionnaire d'informatique francophone

  • wetware — wet|ware [ wet,wer ] noun uncount INFORMAL used for referring to the people who work with computers, as opposed to computer software or HARDWARE …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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