Neuromorphic Chips
From: MIT Technology Review - May/June 2014 - page 55
By: Robert D. Hof

Microprocessors configured more like brains than traditional chips could soon
make computers far more astute about what’s going on around them.

According to Dharmendra Modha, a top IBM researcher in San Jose, neuromorphic
chips might lead to glasses for the blind that use visual and auditory
sensors to recognize objects and provide audio cues; health-care systems that
monitor vital signs, provide early warnings of potential problems, and
suggest ways to individualize treatments; and computers that draw on wind
patterns, tides, and other indicators to predict tsunamis more accurately.

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Link:
Dharmendra Modha
http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-dmodha