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Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)

By Kwabena Boahen - Stanford
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  • Fall 2008
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

Kwabena Boahen is using the human brain as the blueprint for designing radically more powerful and energy-efficient computers. In this short demo, Boahen describes how his Brains in Silicon lab at Stanford University has created computer chips with "synapses" and "neurons" -- and how these chips might revolutionize computing.

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Building a Circuit-Diagram for the Brain (Jennifer Raymond)
  2. Understanding Blindness and the Brain (Brian Wandell)
  3. Brain to Computer Interfaces
  4. Controlling the Brain with Light (Karl Deisseroth)
  5. Googling the Brain on a Chip (Kwabena Boahen)
  6. Visualizing Desire (Brian Knutson)
  7. Deafness: Emerging Strategies for a Cure (Stefan Heller)