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#1 2008-11-22 09:36:23
- JaneFairfax
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IBM to build brain-like computers
IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.
Part of a field called cognitive computing, the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists.
The resulting technology could be used for large-scale data analysis, decision making or even image recognition.
Full story: BBC News
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#2 2008-11-24 09:17:31
- greenisfab88
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Re: IBM to build brain-like computers
i didnt know that.
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#3 2008-11-24 11:34:02
- MathsIsFun
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Re: IBM to build brain-like computers
An area of interest to me. I am glad there is some nice funding for it.
Benefits include understanding our brains (and ourselves) better.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#4 2008-11-24 22:19:50
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: IBM to build brain-like computers
A thinking machine? Ambitious project indeed.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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