söndag 18 september 2011

A tour of the lab where IBM makes its brain chips (video)


A tour of the lab where IBM makes its brain chips(video) San Jose, Calif. At the IBM Almaden Research Center , a team of researchers is creating the artificial brains of the future. We took a tour of this lab from Dharmendra Modha (pictured), principle investigator on the brain chip project. IBM and its partners have already built a brain-like chip prototype , and Modha and his colleagues showed us how it works. IBM calls the larger project Synapse (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, or SyNAPSE)....[Read the full article]