Dharmendra S. Modha

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Archives for 2007

Press Coverage: Decade of the Mind

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I spoke at the extremely successful and enjoyable Decade of the Mind Symposium.  The event has gotten some nice media attention:

Brain research poised to dramatically advance global society
First Science
http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/chemistry-physics-and-materials-sciences/brain-research-poised-to-dramatically-advance-global-society_28802.html

Brain research poised to dramatically advance global society
Medical News Today
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=71750

Mason Prepares for Involvement in ‘Decade of the Mind’
The Mason Gazette
http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/10199/

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Game 6 between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov

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"Ten years ago today, IBM’s Deep Blue (NYSE: IBM) became the first computer to win a chess tournament against a reigning world champion chess master.

Deep Blue had 32 processors and could process about 200 million chess moves per second in its historic six-game match against Garry Kasparov."

References:

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Deep_Blue
http://www.sys-con.com/read/374500.htm
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/05/murraycampbell_qa

ENF 2007: Emulating the Mind

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On July 23, 2007, in Vienna, Austria, a very interesting event seems to be taking place:

EMULATING THE MIND
1st International Engineering & Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum

The agenda seems to have a bearing on Cognitive Computing. Of course, to be true Cognitive Computing, the title should have been "Emulating the Mind by Simulating the Brain"!

Recent News Coverage of our CoSyNe 2007 paper…

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Our CoSyNe 2007 paper attracted a lot of attention recently.

BBC News, Mouse brain simulated on computer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6600965.stm?ls

New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/recreating-mind-of-mouse.html

United Press International
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2007/04/28/supercomputer_imitates_mouse_brain/

The Guardian, UK, “Just how powerful is the brain of a mouse?”
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2070570,00.html

Newkerala.com
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=23660

The Post Chronicle
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/technology/article_21277595.shtml

Robots.net
http://robots.net/article/2218.html

IMEDINEWS
http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/36269

EARTHtimes.org
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/57046.html

Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/29/ibms-bluegene-l-supercomputer-simulates-half-a-mouse-brain/

SlashDot
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/28/1638204

KurzweilAI.net
http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/frame.html?main=/news/news_single.html?id3D6735

DailyTech
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7094

LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/070413_mouse_brain.html

ACM TechNews
http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2007-05-may/may-02-2007.html

Taipei Times
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/bizfocus/archives/2007/05/06/2003359755

Toronto Star, 10 things we learned this week
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/210882

A Sample of Blogs:

The Early Signs of the Long Tomorrow, Jamais Cascio
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20070425/

“Of Mice and Megabytes” CNET
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9714610-7.html

The Ledger
http://blogs.theledger.com/default.asp?item=584401

Neowin
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=39876

http://www.smm.org/buzz/blog/computer_simulates_half_a_mouse_brain

http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/04/mouse_brain_takes_a_ride_on_ib_1.php

http://digg.com/general_sciences/Mouse_brain_simulated_on_computer_3

http://www.newscloud.com/read/83305

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=490613

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/26/simulated_mousebrain.html

http://science.netscape.com/story/2007/04/27/mouse-brain-simulated-on-computer/

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2007/280407mouse.htm

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/04/28/2562320.htm

http://www.ioltechnology.co.za/article_inter.php?iFeedArticleId=10418001

http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32894

http://keznews.com/16644=Mouse_brain_simulated_on_computer

http://www.n-philes.com/forums/showthread.php?p=50599501#post50599501

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/918067/supercomputer_imitates_mouse_brain/index.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825311/posts

http://groups.google.com.sg/group/talk.origins/browse_thread/thread/8e126aba5814c4c6/e5c738654b1b770d

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/137284.php/Supercomputer-imitates-mouse-brain

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070428103713AAi9pSV

http://tech.zicos.com/news.php/n/1026815/Mouse-Brain-Simulated-Via-Computer

http://rss.crossmap.com/article/mouse-brain-simulated-on-computer/story178835.htm

http://r3dw0rm.com/?p=363

http://www.greythumb.org/blog/

http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=11517

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825556/posts

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6211.html

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2007/04/this_is_wild_a.html

http://www.cognitie.nl/news/mouse-brain-simulated-on-computer

http://www.smm.org/buzz/blog/computer_simulates_half_a_mouse_brain