[LINK] IBM simulate a “brain” with 500 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses

Recent article in The New Yorker:

http://​​www.newyorker.com/​​online/​​blogs/​​newsdesk/​​2012/​​11/​​ibm-brain-simulation-compass.html

Here is the research report from IBM, with the simple title “10^14”:

http://​​www.modha.org/​​blog/​​SC12/​​RJ10502.pdf

It’s nothing like a real brain simulation, of course, but illustrates that hardware to do this is getting very close.

There is likely to be quite a long overhang between the hardware and the software...