A debug board with 16 IBM TrueNorth neuromorphic processors, each of which contains more than 5 billion transistors and simulates the operation of up to 1 million model “neurons” and up to 250 million connections between them (“synapses”).
SyNAPSE (from Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics , backronym for synapses ) is a DARPA program to finance the development of neuromorphic technologies, processors, and systems that potentially scale to a level comparable to the size of the brain of animals such as a mouse or cat . The program started in 2008 and will last at least until 2016. In the first five years of the program, researchers received more than $ 106 million in funding. The main executors of the project: IBM ( IBM Research ) and HRL Laboratories , co-executors of which became several North American universities.
Members
The following public information is available on DARPA SyNAPSE members: [1]
IBM Team:
- Stanford University : Brian A. Wandell , H.-S. Philip wong
- Cornell University : Rajit Manohar
- Columbia University Medical Center : Stefano Fusi
- University of Wisconsin Madison : Giulio Tononi
- University of California, Merced : Christopher Kello
- IBM Research : Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan, Leland Chang, Daniel Friedman, Christoph Hagleitner, Bulent Kurdi, Chung Lam, Paul Maglio, Dharmendra Modha , Stuart Parkin , Bipin Rajendran, Raghavendra Singh
HRL Command:
- HRL Laboratories : Narayan Srinivasa, Jose Cruz-Albrecht, Dana Wheeler, Tahir Hussain, Sri Satyanarayana, Tim Derosier, Youngkwan Cho, Corey Thibeault, Michael O 'Brien, Michael Yung, Karl Dockendorf, Vincent DeSapio, Qin Jiang, Suhas Chelian
- Boston University : Stephen Grossberg, Gail Carpenter, Yongqiang Cao, Praveen Pilly
- Neurosciences Institute : Gerald Edelman, Einar Gall, Jason Fleischer
- University of Michigan : Wei Lu
- University of California, Irvine : Jeff Krichmar
- George Mason University : Giorgio Ascoli, Alexei Samsonovich
- Portland State University : Christof Teuscher
- Stanford University : Mark Schnitzer
- Set Corporation : Chris Long
Notes
- ↑ Dharmendra S Modha's Cognitive Computing Blog: The Cat is Out of the Bag and BlueMatter unopened (link not available) . Date of treatment August 9, 2014. Archived April 2, 2015.