Right now, Stanford University is about to launch a new project, that will help out to discover a new computational features of a human brain.
Now Kwabena Boahen, a neuroengineer at Stanford University, is planning the most ambitious neuromorphic project to date: creating a silicon model of the cortex. The first-generation design will be composed of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256-by-256 array of silicon neurons.
It looks like more and more people become attracted by the R&D of artificial systems, in other words, millions of investitions are going for research facilities of creating human like computing and imitating human capacities like human vision, an ability to identify the smell. Human still remains the most interesting subject of analysis as for digital programmers working on image processing methods to create the appropriate vision, as for computer scientists - in order to reach human like way of processing the information, and engineers - to imitate balancing abilities of a man.
The latest robot for “snow collecting” in Japan took 7 years of researches just to produce correct vision navigating and identification system - so the robot will identify how to move, where to move, and finally, where is the snow. I doubt that this project, of creating an artificial silicon brain will take less time, but humanity always set impossible goals for itself in order to answer that there is nothing impossible in the world. And the more people will be interacted in those researches, the better will be the feedback of science reflected on our life.
