DARPA Moves Forward With Brain Chip

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DARPA Moves Forward With Brain Chip
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with IBM in the third leg of its Synapse brain chip. The initial phase of the project simulated the cortex of a cat brain on an IBM BlueGene massively parallel supercomputer with 147,456 cores and 144TB of memory and developing the basic synaptic circuits for the brain chip. IBM is unveiling the fruits of the phase 1 work today and the fact that its cognitive computer dream team, headed up by Dharmendra Modha, the Synapse project leader at IBM Research, as well as announcing that DARPA has allocated another $21m in funding to begin the phase 2 work. Like most DARPA projects, Synapse has some impressive goals and... there is a lot of talk about "dawn of a new paradigm" and "dawn of a new age" as researchers try to create brain-like systems.