Brain on a Chip

Kwabena Boahen – a researcher at Stanford University – is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient computers optimised to simulate neuron activity. In this short demo, Boahen describes how his Brains in Silicon lab at Stanford University has created computer chips with “synapses” and “neurons” – and how these chips might allow us to simulate the activities of the human brain. In his demo he shows how to teach character recognition to the chip, and then how the chip uses it’s learning to correctly identify the letterform.

Indeed a very interesting glimpse into the workings of brains as they ‘read’.