IBM cognitive computing initiative
IBM hopes to break the 'conventional programmable machine paradigm'

IBM to develop super-brainy computer

Machine will emulate human brain's capabilities, say researchers

Rosalie Marshall

IBM is pairing up with leading US universities to build a computer that it claims will emulate the capabilities of the human brain.

Big Blue and researchers from the universities of Stanford, Cornell and California, among others, have been awarded $4.9m (£3.28m) in funds from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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IBM said that the team hopes to break the "conventional programmable machine paradigm".

"The end goal is ubiquitously deployed computers imbued with a new intelligence that can integrate information from a variety of sensors and sources, deal with ambiguity, respond in a context-dependent way, learn over time and carry out pattern recognition to solve difficult problems based on perception, action and cognition in complex real-world environments," said IBM in a statement.

The research will emerge over the next nine months, according to IBM.

"We believe that our cognitive computing initiative will help shape the future of computing in a significant way, bringing to bear new technologies that we have not even begun to imagine," said Josephine Cheng, IBM fellow and researcher.

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