Big Blue’s Dharmendra Modha and Cat Neocortex simulation

Dharmendra Modha, IBM 1 Minute

Dharmendra’s team at IBM are making the news this morning. Here’s AP’s Jordan Robertson’s story.

Money quote:

A computer with the power of a human brain is not yet near. But this week researchers from IBM Corp. are reporting that they’ve simulated a cat’s cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has.

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Native Angeleno, professor of Neuroscience and Public Policy at George Mason University

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