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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-brain-won't-inspire dept.

New C-BRIC Center Will Tackle Brain-Inspired Computing

Purdue University will lead a new national center to develop brain-inspired computing for intelligent autonomous systems such as drones and personal robots capable of operating without human intervention.

The Center for Brain-inspired Computing Enabling Autonomous Intelligence, or C-BRIC, is a five-year project supported by $27 million in funding from the Semiconductor Research Corp (SRC) via their Joint University Microelectronics Program, which provides funding from a consortium of industrial sponsors as well as from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The SRC operates research programs in the United States and globally that connect industry to university researchers, deliver early results to enable technological advances, and prepare a highly-trained workforce for the semiconductor industry. Additional funds include $3.96 million from Purdue and as well as support from other participating universities. At the state level, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation will be providing funds, pending board approval, to establish an intelligent autonomous systems laboratory at Purdue.

[...] Autonomous intelligent systems will require real-time closed-loop control, leading to new challenges in neural algorithms, software and hardware," said Venkataramanan (Ragu) Balakrishnan, Purdue's Michael and Katherine Birck Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. "Purdue's long history of preeminence in related research areas such as neuromorphic computing and energy-efficient electronics positions us well to lead this effort."

It's neuro-inspired.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:20AM (#624021)

    See subject.

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:04AM (2 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:04AM (#624046) Journal

    Autonomous intelligent systems will require real-time closed-loop control, leading to new challenges in neural algorithms, software and hardware,

    Lets just blow up Purdue now, and save everybody the heart ache of a wrecked world or a "perfect world" without humans.
    Autonomous intelligence is a pretty stupid thing to intentionally create.
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    (Yes, I realize there are about 50 of you reading this that profess to believe any world without humans would be more perfect than this one. Please lead us all to perfection).

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:28AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:28AM (#624048)

      Please lead us all to perfection

      Step 1: Blow frojack up.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:01PM (#624388)

        Read the headline! It says, "brain-inspired". He's safe.

  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:40PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:40PM (#624240)

    Autonomous and closed-loop? Who or what decides what the reference signal is? Okay, read the article. It's hard to quickly sum up their goals other than say they want to improve everything. They want to improve energy efficiency of large AI setups like Watson. They want to make IoT devices have a distributed intelligence (someone should tell them about botnets). They want to "improve the theoretical and mathematical underpinnings of neuro-inspired algorithms". (snipped out a rant about NN theory vs implementation here) Still not sure how a neural network can train itself by providing it's own fitness function. You'd end up with something crazy. Sounds like a fun experiment!

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