Brain-inspired Computing - IBM Fellow Dharmendra Modha
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Speaker: Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha is an IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist for Brain-inspired Computing. He is a Cognitive Computing pioneer who envisioned and now leads a highly successful effort to develop Brain-inspired Computers. The project has received ~$65 million in research funding from DARPA (under SyNAPSE Program), US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, and Commercial Customers.
Author of over 60 papers and inventor of over 100 patent disclosures, he has won Misha Mahowald Prize; ACM's Gordon Bell Prize; USENIX/FAST Test of Time Award; Best Paper Awards at ASYNC and IDEMI; First Place, Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Contest; IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumni Award; Runner-up for the 2014 Science Breakthrough of the Year; 2015 R&D 100 Award (Editor's Choice for IT/Electrical); and is a Fellow of IEEE and World Technology Network. In 2013 and 2014, he was named the Best of IBM. On their 40th Anniversary, EE Times named him amongst 10 Electronic Visionaries to watch. TrueNorth Brain-inspired Processor has been accepted into the Computer History Museum.
At IBM, he has won the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper award (Three Times), an Outstanding Innovation Award, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and Communication Systems Best Paper Award. He is an IBM Master Inventor. In 2010, he was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology. In 2014, he was appointed an IBM Fellow.
Dr. Modha holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of California at San Diego.
Abstract: IBM has developed end-to-end technology and ecosystem to create and program energy-efficient, brain-inspired machines that mimic the brain’s abilities for perception, action, and cognition. The ecosystem consists of an indexcard-sized board with 1 million neurons; a simulator; a programming language; an integrated programming environment; a library of algorithms as well as applications; firmware; tools for composing neural networks for deep learning; a teaching curriculum; and cloud enablement.
The ecosystem will be demonstrated on a number of datasets with near state-of-the-art accuracy and unprecedented energy-efficiency. Today, 125+ researchers at 40+ universities, government agencies, and companies are exploring the ecosystem. IBM has developed new scale-up and scale-out systems that will be also be presented.
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Agenda:
11:30am - 11:45am - Check-in is available at the lobby
11:45am - 12:00pm - Networking (no food or drink) outside the auditorium
12:00pm - 1:00pm - Talk and Q&A
1:00pm - 1:30pm - Finger-food lunch and networking outside the auditorium
List of resources to review before the talk:
Articles:
Samsung, Air Force, Lawrence Livermore Partnership: http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-turns-ibms-brain-like-chip-into-a-digital-eye/ (http://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-turns-ibms-brain-like-chip-into-a-digital-eye/16-Chip)
16-Chip System: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5862-backpropagation-for-energy-efficient-neuromorphic-computing
Boot Camp: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/ibms-rodent-brain-chip-make-phones-hyper-smart/
Papers:
convolution networks: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08270
backpropagation: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5862-backpropagation-for-energy-efficient-neuromorphic-computing
architecture: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6197/668.full.pdf
neuron model: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.neuron-model.pdf
applications: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.algorithms-applications.pdf
programming: http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/IJCNN2013.corelet-language.pdf
Video: Brain-inspired Computing: Dharmendra Modha, IBM Fellow and Principal Investigator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPwIBiFVq0
Blog: http://www.modha.org < http://www.modha.org >
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Brain-inspired Computing - IBM Fellow Dharmendra Modha