| Title:
| Cognitive Computing: Building A Machine That Can Learn From Experience
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| Description:
| Scientists are studying complex wiring of the brain to build the computer of the future, one that combines the brain's abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition and its low power consumption and compact size. Understanding the process behind these seemingly effortless feats of the human brain and creating a computational theory based on it remains one of the biggest challenges for computer scientists. University of Wisconsin-Madison research psychiatrist Giulio Tononi ... says the goal of building a computer as quick and flexible as a small mammalian brain is more daunting than it sounds. Tononi, professor of psychiatry at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an internationally known expert on consciousness, is part of a team of collaborators from top institutions who have been awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of DARPA's Systems of Neuromor!
phic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE).
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| Author:
| Original article written by Susan Lampert Smith.
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| Orig. Date:
| Dec. 23, 2008
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| Source:
| ScienceDaily. Adapted from materials provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| htm
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| Last Edit:
| Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:43:59 -0800
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