At the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held this week in Dallas, researchers from IBM will be taking the wraps off of a new software front-end for their neurosynaptic processor chips. The ultimate goal of these most recent efforts is to recast Watson-style cognitive computing, and its recent successes, into a decidedly more efficient architecture inspired by the brain., but is this realistic?
For some, Bitcoin conjures ideas of a utopian decentralized currency, but many others these days think of it as a quick way to make a buck. Countless hordes of Bitcoin prospectors are now using their computers to “mine” for Bitcoins by solving for specific hashed values. Now, the processing power of these miners is estimated to be six to eight times greater than the top 500 supercomputers combined.
Imagine the world’s biggest radio telescope, a massive array of 3,000 radio telescopes pointed at the sky, with a total collection area of one square kilometer. That’s the goal of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a tremendous undertaking by the Australian and New Zealand governments to build a radio array that can detect even the…
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