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Exciting Opportunities in Brain-inspired Computing at IBM Research

September 5, 2019 By dmodha

Opportunities:

Here are the current opportunities at IBM Research – Almaden in San Jose, California to extend the frontier of computing:

  • Research Scientist (Master’s/PhD degree)
  • Logic Design/RTL Hardware Engineer (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree, Master’s/PhD degree)
  • Physical Chip Design Hardware Engineer (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree, Master’s/PhD degree)
  • Verification/Logic Design Hardware Engineer (Bachelor’s/Master’s degree, Master’s/PhD degree)
  • Software Engineer – C++ simulation (Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree)
  • Research Staff Member (Master’s/PhD degree)


Background:

Working since 2004, IBM’s Brain-Inspired Computing team at IBM Research – Almaden is a pioneer in neuromorphic computing.

The project has received ~$85 million in research funding from DARPA (under SyNAPSE Program), US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, and commercial customers.

Our team has built TrueNorth (a first-of-a-kind modular, scalable, non-von Neumann, ultra-low power, cognitive computing architecture), associated end-to-end software ecosystem, and many systems. TrueNorth and its ecosystem are in the hands of ~200 researchers at ~45 institutions on five continents.

The team has been recognized with the Misha Mahowald Prize, ACM Gordon Bell Prize, R&D 100 Award, Best Paper Awards at ASYNC and IDEMI conferences, and First Place, Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Contest. TrueNorth has been inducted into the Computer History Museum.

Our papers have been published in Science, Communications of the ACM, PNAS, amongst many other venues. Our work has been featured in The Economist, Science, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, BBC, CNN, PBS, PBS NOVA, Discover, MIT Technology Review, Associated Press, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Spectrum, Forbes, Fortune, Time, amongst many other media outlets.

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ― Abraham Lincoln

Join us!

Filed Under: Brain-inspired Computing

The TrueNorth Journey: 2008 – 2018 (video)

July 2, 2019 By dmodha

Filed Under: Brain-inspired Computing, Videos

IEEE Computer Cover Feature — TrueNorth: Accelerating From Zero to 64 Million Neurons in 10 Years

May 14, 2019 By dmodha

May 2019 issue of IEEE Computer Magazine’s Cover Features highlights an article summarizing ten years of innovation from IBM Research.

Abstract: IBM’s brain-inspired processor is a massively parallel neural network inference engine containing 1 million spiking neurons and 256 million low-precision synapses. Now, after a decade of fundamental research spanning neuroscience, architecture, chips, systems, software, and algorithms, IBM has delivered the largest neurosynaptic computer ever built.

FIGURE 1. The timeline of the development of TrueNorth.
FIGURE 3. The 64-processor scale-out NS16e-4.
FIGURE 5. A decade of neuromorphic applications on TrueNorth.

Filed Under: Accomplishments, Brain-inspired Computing, Papers

Design Awards for NS16e-4 System

March 11, 2019 By dmodha

Guest Post by William P. Risk

Over the course of the SyNAPSE / TrueNorth project, we’ve had the opportunity to leverage the technical depth and breadth that exist in IBM, both within and outside the Research Division. In particular, we’ve collaborated with IBM’s industrial design team since the early days of the project, when they helped us imagine and communicate potential applications of this new technology through concept models and created an iconic cap for the TrueNorth chip. Most recently, we’ve collaborated with both our industrial designers and our Systems Group engineers to design the landmark NS16e-4 Neurosynaptic System.

The elegant and iconic design of this system was recognized recently with two design awards.

First, it was named a Featured Finalist in the 2018 International Design Excellence Awards of the Industrial Design Society of America.

Second, it received 2019 iF Design Award from the iF Design Foundation.

Filed Under: Accomplishments, Brain-inspired Computing, Collaborations, Prizes

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