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 these artificially constructed, but still organic
brains. One
prototype is constructed from
leech neurons, and is capable of performing simple
arithmetic operations. The concepts are still being researched and prototyped, but in the near future, it is expected that artificially constructed organic brains, even though they are still considerably simpler in design than animal brains, should be capable of simple pattern recognition tasks such as
handwriting recognition.