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New chips can mimic brain smarts

Sean Patterson seanpat at fmed2.uncu.edu.ar
Fri Jun 23 11:58:16 EST 2000


>Richard Norman, rsnorman at mediaone.net, wrote on Fri, 23 Jun 2000:
>
>> I can't find a link to the new chips at the specified site.
>Mentifex/ATM:
>The ZDNet article from Reuters did not include a link,
>but said that the work was written up in Nature on `Thursday,'
>which must mean a Thurs.22.June.2000 issue of Nature.
>
>The ZDNet article quoted H. Sebastian Seung and
>Rahul Sarpeshkar, both of MIT, so a look into Nature
>and a search for their names should lead to the paper.
>
>> Nevertheless, it does seem a bit of a stretch from an
>> announcement of a mixed analog/digital chip to a
>> request for "one that can imitate the human cerebral cortex"
>>
>> Mentifex <mentifex at my-deja.com> wrote in message
>> news:8itps1$j3t$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
>>> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/ ZDNet: News: Page One has an
>>> article on mixed analog and digital chips being developed
>>> at MIT, Bell Labs and the Institute of Neuroinformatics.
>>>
>>> The Mindmaker Project needs chips that can imitate the
>>> human cerebral cortex.   <clip>
>
>Arthur T. Murray  mentifex at scn.org
>
>...imitating the human cerebral cortex in software:
>http://www.geocities.com/mentifex/mind4th.html

Try

Digital selection and analogue amplification coexist in a
cortex-inspired silicon circuit
RICHARD H. R. HAHNLOSER, RAHUL SARPESHKAR,
MISHA A. MAHOWALD, RODNEY J. DOUGLAS &
H. SEBASTIAN SEUNG
http://www.nature.com/nlink/v405/n6789/abs/405947a0_fs.html


Sean Patterson, Ph.D.
Catedra de Fisiologia, CC33
Facultad de Ciencias Medicas
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Mendoza, Argentina
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