cerebral cortex

News Story Breakthrough heralds new era of cognitive computing

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 05:37

I can't say I have ever heard of pussy power being used as a driver for advanced chip technology development, but that's precisely what researchers at IBM are claiming.

A team of boffins at IBM have been speaking about how they have arrived at something of a milestone breakthrough: a supercomputer that simulates a brain in near real time and has more cerebral cortex capacity than a cat.