Solid State Circuits Society

June 17, 2010

Speaker:  Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha (IBM Research – Almaden)

Title:  Cognitive Computing

Abstract:

The talk will outline an ambitious project to combine neuroscience, supercomputing, and nanotechnology with the goal of creating new software, electronics hardware, and computer architecture that can understand, adapt and respond to an informative environment in ways that extend traditional computation to include fundamentally different capabilities found in biological brains.

Bio:

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha is founding manager of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator for DARPA SyNAPSE team of IBM Research – Almaden, IBM Research – Watson, Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, Columbia University, and University of California at Merced. Most recently, his group performed cortical simulations at scale of cat cerebral cortex (1 billion neurons, 10 trillion synapses) only 100x slower than real-time on a 147,456 processor BlueGene/P supercomputer. This work received ACM’s Gordon Bell Prize In 2009. His research has had significant practical impact on IBM’s businesses. At IBM, he has won the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper award, an Outstanding Innovation Award, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and Communication Systems Best Paper Award. He holds 27 US patents, and is currently an IBM Master Inventor. He has authored over 50 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of AAAS, ACM, and SfN. Dr. Modha holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSD.

SCV SSCS Technical meetings are typically held on The THIRD Thursday of each month at:

National Semiconductor Building E Auditorium
2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051 Directions and NSC Map

Refreshments are provided at 6:00 PM and the talk typically begins at 6:30 PM.
Donations requested to partially cover food cost.

The talks are open to everyone, feel free to join us even if you are not an IEEE member yet.

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