Business Bytes
September 9, 2009

Intelligent Computers

 

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), a division of the U.S. Defense Department, recently gave IBM $16 million to further its research on intelligent technology that can mimic the human brain. The program, SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), aims to "develop systems capable of analyzing vast amounts of data from many sources in the blink of an eye, letting the military make rapid decisions in time to have a significant impact on a given problem or situation." While programmable machines use algorithms to compute data, the human brain can process information on its own "by automatically learning relevant and probabilistically stable features and associations."

Sounds a little Terminator-ish to me.

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Curt Finch

Curt Finch has more than two decades of software development and distributed workforce management experience. In 1997, Curt created the world's first internet-based timesheet application and the foundation for the current Journyx product offering. Curt has a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His book, All Your Money, is available on Amazon.