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IP: "Brain Building" in Japan (at ATR)
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 07:28:37 -0500
*** =============================================== ***med *** Kansai Professional Computing Association News *** *** =============================================== *** FEBRUARY PRESENTATION: ATR's Artificial Brain ("CAM-Brain") Project Speaker: Dr. Hugo de Garis, Head, Brain Builder Group, ATR 2/18/98-Wed, 6:45-9:00pm. Club KARMA's event hall, 5 minutes from Osaka JR. Within the next 10 years, it is anticipated that an artificial brain with the same number of neurons in a human brain will be developed and built in Japan. The "Brain Building" industry is expected to become a trillion dollar industry within 20 years, and Japan has the dominant lead in this NEW important area of emerging computing technology. (As stated in The Daily Yomiuri 2/4/98, the U.S. has taken the lead in brain research, but Japan, because of its unique approach, has the clear lead in Brain Building). A CAM-Brain which will be able to update 100 billion CA cells a second and evolve a neural net module in less than a second, will be available by March 1998. NTT will receive the first CAM-Brain in the first half of 1998. MIT, George Mason University, and other companies from the European Community, such as Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products, have their names on a waiting list for future CAM-Brains. Dr. Hugo de Garis is currently the _ONLY_ person in the world trying to build an artificial brain. He will talk about his current running project, development of a robot kitten called "ROBOKONEKO", as well as the future of Brain Building. To meet the father of the "Brain Building" industry, and to find out about his visions, this is a KPCA meeting you wont want to miss! For additional information, see his website at <http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris>http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~degaris Dr. Hugo de Garis earned his PhD in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence from Brussels University. He has lead CADEPS's Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life Research Unit doing "Genetic Programming". In Japan's Tsukuba's ETL he worked on Artificial Nervous Systems and Embryonics. He has been invited to speak at ICANNGA, EPFL, NSF, DARPA, SFI, and many other conferences and organizations.
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