- Dharmendra Modha
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Dharmendra S. Modha is a manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center.[1][2] He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation.[3] In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a program that simulated a cat brain.[4] He is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Gordon Bell Prize, given each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications.[5]
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Personal life
Modha holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai, India and a Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSD. He is a UC San Diego graduate. He received his Ph.D. at the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1995 and is now manager of Cognitive Computing at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Master Inventor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of AAAS, ACM, and SfN.[6][7]
Achievements
Modha is manager of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He chaired IBM’s 2006 Almaden Institute on Cognitive Computing, co-chaired Cognitive Computing 2007 at Berkeley, CA, and was a speaker at the Decade of the Mind Symposium in May 2007. He is the Principal Investigator for DARPA SyNAPSE proposal that brought together IBM (Almaden, Watson, Zurich, India), Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, Columbia University, and University of California at Merced to embark upon the ambitious quest of cognitive computing to engineer intelligent business machines by reverse-engineering the computational function of the brain and delivering it in a small, energy efficient chip.[7][8] Over the last two decades, he has founded two start-up companies, been issued 26 U.S. patents and has authored over 40 publications in international journals and conferences.[7]
Prizes
- He performed cortical simulations at scale of cat cerebral cortex (1 billion neurons, 10 trillion synapses) only 100x slower than real-time on a 147,456 processor BlueGene/P supercomputer. This work received ACM’s Gordon Bell Prize.
- At IBM, he has won the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper award, an Outstanding Innovation Award, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and Communication Systems Best Paper Award.
- He is currently an IBM Master Inventor.
References
- ^ "IBM plans 'brain-like' computers". BBC News. 21 November 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7740484.stm. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Center for Consciousness Center, Tucson, Arizona". http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/2010TSCPlenaryModha.htm. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Point of View with Dharmendra Modha". University of California, San Diego. http://www-chancellor.ucsd.edu/pov_modha.html. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?". Scientific American. 27 April 2010. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=when-build-brains-like-ours. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "The ACM Gordon Bell Prize". http://sc08.supercomputing.org/?pg=gordonbell.html. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ http://www-chancellor.ucsd.edu/pov_modha.html
- ^ a b c http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/2010TSCPlenaryModha.htm
- ^ http://www.neurdon.com/2009/11/19/the-subtle-difference-between-simulating-brains-and-number-of-cells/#more-929
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- Living people
- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay alumni
- Scientific computing researchers
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