Nov 30 2008
Computers, Brain, and Silicon
There is this magazine called “InformationWeek”. I have never heard of it before my postman began leaving it in my mail box one day and every week after. Somehow, my daughter has it coming to her and she does not even read it. I have been wanting to take a look but never remember to do so. Finally I decided to make the time to look at this magazine.
The first article that caught my attention was titles “Humam Brain In Silicon”. It started with announcing the IBM is partnering with five universities to make computers that operate as a human brain. I was like “WoW”. They are attempting to make computers like the actualy human brain structure, behavior, and function on transistors and silicon.
I am not a person who gets the newspaper on a regular basis so after reading this, I had to read it again and through the whole artical.
This research is being funded in form of a grant in the amount of $4.9 million from the government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
My first thought was; just one more thing being funded by our government while we still have homelessness and hunger in our world.
The purpose of this research is to speed up the process for consumers in order to recieve things such as credit reports, tax returns, paystubs, and morgage statements faster. This is so that lending companies can make dicisions quicker in whether or not to approve a loan.
