Dharmendra S. Modha

2006:              
Almaden Institute

2007:              
“Mouse”-scale simulations
Talk Video: Cognitive Computing Talk at UC Berkeley 
Talk Video: Cognitive Computing Talk at Decade of the Mind Symposium
“Rat”-scale simulations

2008:              
DARPA SyNAPSE Phase 0

2009:              
Talk Video: IEEE 125^th Anniversary 
“Cat”-scale simulations and ACM Gordon Bell Prize
DARPA SyNAPSE Phase 1

2010:              
“Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain”

2011:              
Cognitive Computing in Communications of the ACM
Talk Video: Cognitive Computing Keynote at DAC 
Chips and DARPA SyNAPSE Phase 2

Recently, Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renée St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, and Doug Burger, published a paper entitled "Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling".  Here is the associated article in New York Times that beautifully summarizes the issue:

"The problem is not that they cannot squeeze more transistors onto the chips — they surely can — but instead, like a city that cannot provide electricity for its entire streetlight system, that all those transistors could require too much power to run economically. They could overheat, too."