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Research advances toward a computer like a human brain
San Jose :: CA :: USA | about 8 hours ago
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Calif. — In an era when PCs perform like supercomputers, and supercomputers carry out inhuman feats of calculation, some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley say there are still crucial ways in which a computer can't match the problem-solving abilities...
Tags: Dharmendra Modha, human brains, IBM, cognitive computers, San Jose, Organs, Human brain, ACT-R, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Computer simulation, Central nervous system, Brain, Neuroanatomy, Technology Internet, Health Medical Pharma
IBM Recreate Cat's Brain Inside Computer [Lolcat]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Well, as artificial intelligences go, it's no HAL, but it's definitely a step closer than we've ever been before. IBM researchers have reportedly simulated the cerebral cortex of a cat using 147,456 processors and 144 terabytes of memory. This latest...
Tags: San Francisco, Cortex, Cerebrum, Brain, Central nervous system, Human brain, Health Medical Pharma, Technology Internet
Box Seats: Athletes Struggle to Channel Aggressive Nature
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 day ago
Credibility A college soccer player retaliates against an opponent by pulling her down by the ponytail. A tennis champion has a tantrum on the court , costing her a shot at winning another major title. An all-star catcher throws an elbow , touching off a brawl that...
Tags: instinctual brain, think brain, impulses control, Japan, Tōkyō, Ethology, Instinct, Thought, Visual system, Rage, Aggression, Brain, Neurobiology, Health Medical Pharma
Blind see again with bionic eye
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Three Britons are among only 32 in the world taking part in a trial of the technology, which gave a 51-year-old man enough eyesight to read short words for the first time in his adult life. Another patient was able to see fireworks on Bonfire Night for...
Tags: United Kingdom, Glasgow, Prosthetics, Visual prosthesis, Bionics, Brain, Bonfire, Blindness, Neuroprosthetics, Eye, Health Medical Pharma
Cannibals survived brain disease epidemic thanks to a mutation
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 2 days ago
Credibility Researchers call it a striking example of human evolution in action. Kuru was a slow-developing epidemic among the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, which devastated the population in 19th and first half of the 20th Centuries. Victims suffered from progressively...
Tags: Burkina Faso, Lon, Microbiology, Neurology, Kuru, Fore people, Brain, Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Prions, Cannibalism, Health Medical Pharma
Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Science has never given much credence to claims that you can learn French or Chinese by having the instruction CDs play while you sleep. If any learning happens that way, most scientists say, the language lesson is probably waking the sleeper up, not...
Tags: San Diego, Memory, Sleep, Rapid eye movement sleep, Dream, Brain, Sleep deprivation, Dreaming, Neurophysiology, Health Medical Pharma
How blind people fearlessly cross busy roads
Thiruvananthapuram :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility They have found that blindness causes structural changes that could help brain reorganize itself functionally in order to adapt to a loss in sensory input. Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, has found that visual regions of the brain were smaller in volume...
Tags: blind individuals, India, Thiruvananthapuram, Corpus callosum, Brain, Neuroimaging, Central nervous system, Neuroanatomy, Blindness, Health Medical Pharma
Waiter, my food is still breathing . . .
Shanghai :: China | 4 days ago
Credibility Eating carp while the fish is still alive is a Chinese delicacy. But it's not the only morally dubious dish on world menus Live carp: a Chinese delicacy. The Chinese have come in for some flak over their eating habits after a video was posted on YouTube...
Tags: China, Shanghai, Monkey brains, Octopus, Brain, Monkey, A Cook's Tour, Offal, Monkeys, Chinese imperial cuisine, Hospitality Recreation
How teenage brains are different from adult brains
Washington :: DC :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility High emotionality is a characteristic of adolescents and researchers are trying to understand how �emotional areas� of the brain differ between adults and adolescents. The researchers studied the amygdala, the major emotional centre in the brain, which...
Tags: Washington, Amygdala, Brain, Neuroanatomy, Cerebrum, Limbic system, Health Medical Pharma, Social Issues
IBM moves closer to creating chips based on the brain
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility IBM said today that it has made significant progress toward making a computer that simulates and emulates the brain’s abilities to sense, perceive, interact, and recognize. It can also do so using the brain’s low-power energy consumption and compact size.
Tags: IBM Corp., San Francisco, IBM, Blue Gene, Supercomputer, Cell, Jeff Hawkins, Parallel computing, Power Architecture, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Health Medical Pharma, Technology Internet, Neuroanatomy, Organs, ACT-R, Computer simulation, Central nervous system, Artificial intelligence, Brain, Distributed computing architecture, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Mind uploading, Cluster computing, Concurrent computing
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