One of the basic features of any self-respecting computer is its ability to hang on many occasions when the least expect it to. Windows users are familiar with the famous 'blue screen of death' with cryptic messages that force you to restart the computer. Today, not so much as before, but still a problem to consider and more serious than it seems if we talk about certain cases. Imagine that the computer system failure aboard a rocket is taking off just when or computer in your home just as you finished a job and you have enabled 'auto save'.
To remedy this, researchers at the University of London have designed what became the first computer in the world that does not crash. Funnily achieved by applying rules and laws that are in the world of biology, not the computer.
The basic problem is that one current computer programs are based on linear compounds of a series of instructions that are executed sequentially. When one of these lines of program crashes, that's when it reaches a critical point at which the program can not work and, in extreme cases, the computer becomes blocked.
The idea of these researchers is to avoid this somehow mimicking a brain operation. In a brain find that the data are stored are not located in one place, but in several redundantly. Thus, in case of missing some of the data needed to perform a function can find them elsewhere.
The next step we are trying to get more curious from the IT perspective. They aim to create a dynamic program code to re-program itself according to external conditions change to occur. Again science imitating nature, in this case to ensure that in the future your computer never crash and also be able to re-program itself
