The Race to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
IBM’s Dawn Blue Gene/P Supercomputer Models a Cat Brain… What’s Next?
Written By: Surfdaddy Orca
Date Published: November 30, 2009 | View more articles in:
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IBM’s Dharmendra Modha has a vision. “Cognitive computing seeks to engineer the mind by reverse engineering the brain,” says Modha, a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, just south of San Francisco. “The mind arises from the brain, which is made up of billions of neurons that are linked by an Internet-like network.” Here’s a video of Dr. Modha explaining his vision of building the computer of the future by modeling the brain: