By Dharmendra S. Modha, Ph. D., IBM Research
Building a computer that could match the power of the human brain has long been a goal of scientists.
In August, we made a breakthrough, published in Science in collaboration with Cornell Tech, which is a significant step toward bringing cognitive computers to society. We announced that we’ve built a computer chip that functions like a brain does with the ability to sense, taste, feel, smell, hear and understand its surroundings.