And the full text is behind a subscriber-only pay wall. That's a shame, looks quite interesting from the abstract.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 12:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: more about True North integrated circuits There is a paper in the current issue of Science, Paul J. Merolla, et al., "A million sparking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface", Science, 2014 August 8, available on-line at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/668 It reports on work by Pharmendra Modha and his colleagues (at both IBM and Cornell) under DARPA-sponsored Project SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics). Crucially, True North appears to have very low power-consumption requirements, about 175,000 times less trhan those of the best supercomputer emulations of networks-of-neurons behavior. We in fact have something important here; the PR furor was appropriate. A shoe-box sized "brain", one that doesn't have the power requirements of New York's five boroughs, may now be in the womb of time. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
