Artificial Development CEO Marcos Guillen to Present CCortex Research and Product Plans at Accelerating Change 2005.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Artificial Development, Inc. (www.ad.com), which introduced CCortex(TM), the world's first virtual brain, at the Accelerating Change 2003 conference on artificial intelligence technologies, announced today that Founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Marcos Guillen will discuss recent CCortex research and product plans at Accelerating Change 2005 (www.accelerating.org), September 16-18, at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . CCortex, a 20 billion neuron simulation of the human cortex, runs on a supercomputer and has already undergone seven major revisions. Each neuron is assigned hundreds of variable parameters and connected to thousands more in order to mimic the full connectivity between real neurons in the brain. The data that drives CCortex is a unique synthesis of multiple Artificial Development research initiatives and includes the Cortical cor·ti·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, derived from, or consisting of cortex. 2. Of, relating to, associated with, or depending on the cerebral cortex. Database, which incorporates data amassed from the neuroscience neu·ro·sci·ence n. Any of the sciences, such as neuroanatomy and neurobiology, that deal with the nervous system. neuroscience the embryology, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of the nervous system. literature. A team of 40 researchers and programmers, headed in India by Dr. Adity Gudi, has been updating the Cortical Database for 14 months, extracting, analyzing, and modeling parameter sets used in the database. Additional teams of neuroscientists, engineers and programmers have been working in the U.S., Europe and India to improve the algorithms governing CCortex. "While similar simulations of the human brain have been announced in recent months, CCortex has been operating quietly for two years," said Guillen. "As a result, Artificial Development is positioned to deliver the first generation of a biologically-inspired cognitive system." Planned commercial products based on the CCortex technology will target medical and cognitive research, security and surveillance, and autonomous systems. The first product, CCortex Developer Box, a custom rack-mounted system, will be released in Q1 2006. CCortex Developer Box includes a 64 bit Spiking Neural Network
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) fall into the third generation of neural network models, increasing the level of realism in a neural simulation. Engine. Each Developer Box can represent up to 250 million neurons containing 11,000 synapses, and will be capable of updating a data matrix of 1.5 billion synapses ten times per second for real-time applications. CCortex Development Boxes can also be clustered together, increasing both the speed and the neuron count. In Q2 2006, a detailed virtual simulation of most of the human brain, excluding the cerebellum cerebellum (sĕr'əbĕl`əm), portion of the brain that coordinates movements of voluntary (skeletal) muscles. It contains about half of the brain's neurons, but these particular nerve cells are so small that the cerebellum accounts for , will be released as a single rack system. The theme of Accelerating Change 2005 conference is "Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification Intelligence amplification (IA) (also referred to as cognitive augmentation and machine augmented intelligence) refers to the effective use of information technology in augmenting human intelligence. : Transforming Technology, Helping Humanity." A multidisciplinary roster of research, business and thought leaders will survey those twin trends from global, national, business, social, and personal foresight perspectives. Accelerating Change is produced by the non-profit Acceleration Studies Foundation Acceleration Studies Foundation is a nonprofit organization engaged in research, education, and selective advocacy of communities and technologies of accelerating change. External links
About Artificial Development Palo Alto, CA-based Artificial Development is a privately held research company, founded in July 2003. Artificial Development is comprised of an international, multidisciplinary team of computer programmers, mathematicians, and computer infrastructure professionals who are working to introduce the world's first true AI. The company's technology, CCortex(TM), is a complete simulation of the human cortex and peripheral systems. Artificial Development plans to deliver a wide range of commercial products based on CCortex to enhance business relationships globally. For more information about Artificial Development, please visit www.ad.com. |
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