IP: "Brain Building" in Japan (at ATR)

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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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.