COMPUTERS TO MIMIC BRAIN

Washington, November 24, 2008
DNA

IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. IBM has been awarded $4.9 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of DARPA’s Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) initiative.

IBM, with Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, Columbia University Medical Centre, and University of California-Merced have announced plans to create computing systems that simulate and emulate the brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size.