Friday, August 23, 2013

True North

May 2010

"..for a prescient "read"neural monitoring and brain computer interface must be done without consent .."  TED conference 2010

.... after discussion of a " new" computer interface  that reads its user's brainwaves with either a  headset or non visible subdermal "inserts"   
        Several  bioinformatics companies have veiled their interests in  identifying biomarkers for neural decoding for medical use and "intracranial surveillance" using electroencephalography (EEG) fMRI ,ELF transmission .

"The smaller the components ,the nanotechnology makes potential subject selection more and more discrete.."****


Feb 2013

IBM plots a strategy for the future
- is aimed squarely at investors and stockholders: grow earnings per share to at least $20 by 2015.
 


AUG 2013

 scientists working on SyNAPSE announced they’d simulated 100 trillion synapses from a monkey brain on Sequoia, one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Now, instead of simply writing brain-inspired algorithms for traditional systems, they’ve invented an entirely new “neuromorphic” chip, True North, and an accompanying programming language to build applications on it.
IBM’s Dharmendra S. Modha, who heads up SyNAPSE, says,
"The way computers currently manipulate information, shuttling it back and forth between memory and processor, is named after the early computer scientist John von Neumann. Classical computing is very good at number crunching—or left-brain activities. In fact, it vastly outstrips human capabilities.
But the classical approach isn’t well suited for creative, adaptive intelligence.
True North is built on a network of “neurosynaptic cores” that place memory, processing, and communication close to one another so they can operate in parallel, much as they do in the brain.

Early on, programmers had to code individual neurosynaptic cores, but the language now includes 150 “corelets,” or groups of cores with similar functionality (eg., sound perception, edge detection, or color identification). Developers only need to know the general function of a corelet to integrate it into an application.

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