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News ReNaChip news article in North East Vision Read the news article about ReNaChip in the North East Vision magazine. more... INEX at Technology World 09 INEX are exhibiting and giving a key note pitch at Technology World 09, 23-24th November, Ricoh Arena, Coventry in the Science meets industry zone. more... IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator IBM’s Almaden Research Center announced that they have created the largest brain simulation to date on a supercomputer. The number of neurons and synapses in the simulation exceed those in a cat’s brain... more... ReNaChip at the movies! The objective of the project is to develop a biomimetic, biohybrid model that can demonstrate the recovery of a learning response that is lost due to aging processes... more... Novel Nerve Interface Electrodes Nanowerk has reported that AIST and Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan has developed a novel electrode for a peripheral nerve interface. more... World premiere of brain orchestra The Multimodal Brain Orchestra performed its world premiere led by an "emotional conductor" and a traditional one, music and video change in time with the performers' brain waves and heart rate. more... Cyborg Moth Gets a New Radio 10 February 2009—Attempts by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to create cybernetic insects (hybrids of biological and electronic bugs) have yielded ultralow-power radios to control the bugs’ flight more... Of cells and wires The Scientist magazine recently published an article discussing the state of the art in neuroprosthetics more... Visit ReNaChip at ICT 2008 ICT 2008 “I” to the Future – Invention – Innovation – Impact more... IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator IBM Unveils a New Brain Simulator 18 November 2009—Scientists and engineers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., announced today at the Supercomputing Conference (SC09) in Portland, Ore., that they have created the largest brain simulation to date on a supercomputer. The number of neurons and synapses in the simulation exceed those in a cat’s brain; previous simulations have reached only the level of mouse and rat brains. Experts predict that the simulation will have profound effects in two arenas: It will lead to a better understanding of how the brain’s architecture leads to cognition, and it should inspire the design of electronics that mimic the brain’s as-yet-unmatched ability to do complex computation and learn using a small volume of hardware that consumes little power. The cortical simulator, called C2, integrates research from the fields of computation, computer memory, communication, and neuroscience to re-create 1 billion neurons connected by 10 trillion individual synapses. C2 runs on “Dawn,” a BlueGene/P supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif... The research was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is spending at least US $40 million to develop an electronic processor that mimics the mammalian brain’s function, size, and power consumption. Read the full article on the IEEE Spectrum site. http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/ibm-unveils-a-new-brain-simulator Updated: 19 November 2009
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