IBM Researchers Continued Human Brain Mapping In Effort To Build Advanced Chip Technology
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Las Vegas, Nevada 11/18/2009 01:23 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
Las Vegas (CRWENEWSWIRE) Nov. 18, 2009 Scientists, at IBM Research - Almaden, in collaboration with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, have performed the first near real-time cortical simulation of the brain that exceeds the scale of a cat cortex and contains 1 billion spiking neurons and 10 trillion individual learning synapses.
Researchers from Stanford University, IBM scientists have developed an algorithm that exploits the Blue Gene® supercomputing architecture in order to noninvasively measure and map the connections between all cortical and sub-cortical locations within the human brain using magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging.
"Learning from the brain is an attractive way to overcome power and density challenges faced in computing today," said Josephine Cheng, IBM Fellow and lab director of IBM Research - Almaden. "As the digital and physical worlds continue to merge and computing becomes more embedded in the fabric of our daily lives, it's imperative that we create a more intelligent computing system that can help us make sense the vast amount of information that's increasingly available to us, much the way our brains can quickly interpret and act on complex tasks."
After the successful completion of Phase 0, IBM and its university partners were recently awarded $16.1M in additional funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 1 of DARPA's Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) initiative.
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