IBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer — but not just any supercomputer. They’ve been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain. “There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain,” said Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research. Cognitive computing is the quest to engineer mind-like intelligent business machines by reverse engineering the computational function of the brain and packaging it in a small, low-power chip.
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IBM, Academics Seek to Create a Computer That's More Like Us
Posted by: Erika Morphy November 20, 2008 02:52 PMIBM and five universities are receiving funding from a government agency to build a supercomputer — but not just any supercomputer. They’ve been tasked with building hardware and software that mimics the human brain. “There are no computers today that can even remotely approach the robust and versatile functionality of the brain,” said Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research. Cognitive computing is the quest to engineer mind-like intelligent business machines by reverse engineering the computational function of the brain and packaging it in a small, low-power chip.