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Building a Silicon Brain

Posted by kdawson on from the million-neuromimes dept.

prostoalex tips us to an article in MIT's Technology Review on a Stanford scientist's plan to replicate the processes inside the human brain with silicon. Quoting: "Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford University, is planning the most ambitious neuromorphic project to date: creating a silicon model of the cortex. The first-generation design will be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256-by-256 array of silicon neurons. Groups of neurons can be set to have different electrical properties, mimicking different types of cells in the cortex. Engineers can also program specific connections between the cells to model the architecture in different parts of the cortex."

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  1. Re:WTF?? by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obe Wan Kenobi

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  2. Better uses of silicon by dotancohen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Silicon tits were better....

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  3. Re:obligatory by gbobeck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FreeBSD... ;)

    Solaris... :-P

    Or, for truely sick and evil people, UnixWare... >:-)
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  4. Re:obligatory by dosquatch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Server2003 -> qemu Ubuntu -> qemu XP -> qemu OSX -> qemu Solaris -> qemu FreeBSD, all inside VMPlayer on AIX. This is either MPD or a psychotic break. I'll ask it when it finishes waking up in about a decade.

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  5. MY GOD by AIfa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hasn't anyone seen the terminator?!