Dharmendra Modha

Dharmendra S. Modha is an Indian American manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center.[1][2] He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation.[3] In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a program that simulated a cat brain.[4] He is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Gordon Bell Prize, given each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications.[5] In November 2012, Modha announced on his blog that using 96 Blue Gene/Q racks of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sequoia supercomputer (1,572,864 processor cores, 1.5 PB memory, 98,304 MPI processes, and 6,291,456 threads), a combined IBM and LBNL team achieved an unprecedented scale of 2.084 billion neurosynaptic cores containing 530 billion neurons and 137 trillion synapses running only 1542× slower than real time. [6] In August 2014 a paper describing the TrueNorth Architecture, "the first-ever production-scale 'neuromorphic' computer chip designed to work more like a mammalian brain than" a processor [7] was published in the journal Science. [8]

Personal life

Modha holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai, India and a Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSD. He received his Ph.D. at the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1995 and is now manager of Cognitive Computing at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Master Inventor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of AAAS, ACM, and SfN.[9][10]

Achievements

Modha is manager of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He chaired IBM’s 2006 Almaden Institute on Cognitive Computing, co-chaired Cognitive Computing 2007 at Berkeley, CA, and was a speaker at the Decade of the Mind Symposium in May 2007. He is the Principal Investigator for DARPA SyNAPSE proposal that brought together IBM (Almaden, Watson, Zurich, India), Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, Columbia University, and University of California at Merced to embark upon the ambitious quest of cognitive computing to engineer intelligent business machines by reverse-engineering the computational function of the brain and delivering it in a small, energy efficient chip.[10][11] Over the last two decades, he has founded two start-up companies, been issued 26 U.S. patents and has authored over 40 publications in international journals and conferences.[10]

Recognition

Criticism

References

  1. ↑ "IBM plans 'brain-like' computers". BBC News. 21 November 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Center for Consciousness Center, Tucson, Arizona". Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "Point of View with Dharmendra Modha". University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?". Scientific American. 27 April 2010. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  5. ↑ "The ACM Gordon Bell Prize". Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  6. ↑ "10 to the 14th power" (PDF). Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  7. ↑ "The brain chip". Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface". Retrieved 21 November 2012.
  9. ↑ http://www-chancellor.ucsd.edu/pov_modha.html
  10. 1 2 3 http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/2010TSCPlenaryModha.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.neurdon.com/2009/11/19/the-subtle-difference-between-simulating-brains-and-number-of-cells/#more-929
  12. ↑ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massive-brain-simulators-seung-conntectome/. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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