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In a sharp departure from traditional concepts in designing and building computers, IBM’s first neurosynaptic computing chips recreate the phenomena between spiking neurons and synapses in biological systems, such as the brain, through advanced algorithms and silicon circuitry. Its first two prototype chips have already been fabricated and are currently undergoing testing.

Called cognitive computers, systems built with these chips won’t be programmed the same way traditional computers are today. Rather, cognitive computers are expected to learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses, and remember – and learn from – the outcomes, mimicking the brains structural and synaptic plasticity.

To do this, IBM is combining principles from nanoscience, neuroscience and supercomputing as part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative. The company and its university collaborators also announced they have been awarded approximately $21 million in new funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase 2 of the Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) project. 

The goal of SyNAPSE  is to create a system that not only analyzes complex information from multiple sensory modalities at once, but also dynamically rewires itself as it interacts with its environment – all while rivaling the brain’s compact size and low power usage. The IBM team has already successfully completed Phases 0 and 1.

“This is a major initiative to move beyond the von Neumann paradigm that has been ruling computer architecture for more than half a century,” said Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research. “Future applications of computing will increasingly demand functionality that is not efficiently delivered by the traditional architecture. These chips are another significant step in the evolution of computers from calculators to learning systems, signaling the beginning of a new generation of computers and their applications in business, science and government.”

Neurosynaptic Chips

While they contain no biological elements, IBM’s first cognitive computing prototype chips use digital silicon circuits inspired by neurobiology to make up what is referred to as a “neurosynaptic core” with integrated memory (replicated synapses), computation (replicated neurons) and communication (replicated axons). 

IBM has two working prototype designs. Both cores were fabricated in 45 nm SOI-CMOS and contain 256 neurons. One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses. The IBM team has successfully demonstrated simple applications like navigation, machine vision, pattern recognition, associative memory and classification. 

IBM’s overarching cognitive computing architecture is an on-chip network of light-weight cores, creating a single integrated system of hardware and software. This architecture represents a critical shift away from traditional von Neumann computing to a potentially more power-efficient architecture that has no set programming, integrates memory with processor, and mimics the brain’s event-driven, distributed and parallel processing.

IBM’s long-term goal is to build a chip system with ten billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses, while consuming merely one kilowatt of power and occupying less than two liters of volume. 

Why Cognitive Computing

Future chips will be able to ingest information from complex, real-world environments through multiple sensory modes and act through multiple motor modes in a coordinated, context-dependent manner.

For example, a cognitive computing system monitoring the world's water supply could contain a network of sensors and actuators that constantly record and report metrics such as temperature, pressure, wave height, acoustics and ocean tide, and issue tsunami warnings based on its decision making. Similarly, a grocer stocking shelves could use an instrumented glove that monitors sights, smells, texture and temperature to flag bad or contaminated produce. Making sense of real-time input flowing at an ever-dizzying rate would be a Herculean task for today’s computers, but would be natural for a brain-inspired system. 

“Imagine traffic lights that can integrate sights, sounds and smells and flag unsafe intersections before disaster happens or imagine cognitive co-processors that turn servers, laptops, tablets, and phones into machines that can interact better with their environments,” said Dr. Modha.

For Phase 2 of SyNAPSE, IBM has assembled a world-class multi-dimensional team of researchers and collaborators to achieve these ambitious goals. The team includes Columbia University; Cornell University; University of California, Merced; and University of Wisconsin, Madison.

IBM has a rich history in the area of artificial intelligence research going all the way back to 1956 when IBM performed the world's first large-scale (512 neuron) cortical simulation. Most recently, IBM Research scientists created Watson, an analytical computing system that specializes in understanding natural human language and provides specific answers to complex questions at rapid speeds. Watson represents a tremendous breakthrough in computers understanding natural language, “real language” that is not specially designed or encoded just for computers, but language that humans use to naturally capture and communicate knowledge. 

IBM’s cognitive computing chips were built at its highly advanced chip-making facility in Fishkill, N.Y. and are currently being tested at its research labs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. and San Jose, Calif.

For more information about IBM Research, please visit ibm.com/research.

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Todays been a very strange day, a helicopter has been circling around my residence all day.And just as my daughter left to go to the store i watched as the helicopter followed her.Anyone else having this happen to them???

Watched an interesting movie last night, Pat Tillman story.

Pro football player who turned down a million dollar contract after 9-11

to fight for his country.And to find out they used him to promote the war

then had him killed and tryed to cover it up!How do these people sleep at night? My prayers go out to his family!And what an amazing family they are!If you havent seen this movie i would definitely recommend it!!!

They must get their endorphins from this.  I think they are addicted.  As soon as I posted, 2 PM small loud plane....

Wait.  After reviewing my journal, (I keep one due to memory problems.  I may have a brain injury from this.)  There was one small plane over my grocery store and one distant large one while walking my dog.

Quiet today.  No aircraft.  Yesterday was aircraft every half hour.  Usually during times they considered important, like eating or waking up.

Today there are no aircraft. 

The perps get screwed because it isn't the abundance of aircraft, but the absence of it that really stands out. 

This is not an air travel corrider.  There are no convenient airports within 10 miles.  Now it's totally quiet.

You haven't lived until you have seen a pregnant woman airstalked or artificially stressed.  I have.  They got put in the TI list because they were pregnant.  There's a new one for you.

They went to my room with increased surveillance 2000-2001 and I told to EEOC and another important organization. But it is not important.

They play hate songs in the cars openly. It is not happening.

There are people committing suicides because of this and related issues. It is not relevant to your case.

The events used in hate films are connected with events that only happened when I had problems with two companies. But it is only my perception and it cannot be connected.

The are a lot of people making money with the films, clips and songs , all describing how I am going to be killed or something similar. People are laughing at that, like in a party. But it is not a lynching.

They have threatened me with contracting daggers and the like to kill me. But if I cannot catch in the act, even though they play songs, it cannot be proved.

Electronic methods that can provoke cancer are used against me. But it is funny the way that they are used.

I loose a lot of opportunities related to all this since 2008. But it is my fault.

They go to the hospitals and experiment with me  with non-lethal weapons. It cannot be proved. How will it be proved if there are no protocols to even recognize their existence?

There are a lot of guys who go to the bioethics commission complaining about the same thing. But they are not going to be heard anymore for the time being.

Protesters are silenced.

Nothing Is Happening. Everything is OK.

Some movies some of may relate to;Gamer, Stranger Than Fiction, The Truman Show, Inception. Does any body relate to them all? I do. Iv'e experienced all of them. What really interests me is how many of us have been falsy charged with something and then 'gamed'. In principle, many of us may have lived the movie. Also-many people have seen these movies and need to be aware that they are based upon a horrifying reality. I am also interested in how many of us 'voluteered' or were lied about what was to actually happen. I have heard of people doing so and then being killed when they would no longer willingly participate.

Stay strong!

Contact your local ACLU. Once they have enough people on board, they can take action on our behalf. All we need are the numbers. We can base the claim on Articles of THe Constitution of the USA. We are not being allowed legal recourse for the violations happening to us all.

We WILL win!

Paul

Today's air stalker has been going all day.  During each "important" event in my day.  They are also tainting grocery store food.  Just as I was about to take a bite of food the loud little plane buzzed my apt. 

It air stalked a woman as she died once.  Some sort of murderer I think.

In what refers to the places where I worked:

. means first place

.. means second place

All people who worked with me in those places have either a . or .. added to the initials which identifies them.

This is a post to wake people up and a call to ask members read and take part of the information given here.

There are several of us, members here at PP. that have and continuesly keep on, posting information about the technology that is possibly used on us, (even documents that proves this exists and videos, confirming this is done to human beings by wellknown and credible people, such as former military intelligence employees and psyciastrist, aswell as actual research programmes by our countries governments) 

Still it seems to me, as people and member here at PP. either chose to not take part of the information given here, or stubbornly remain in their own beliefs that they were manipulated to believe when they first got under their harassment. We all know the "set-up" for all victims are very similar. We are made to believe we are under "surveillance" (meaning that we are to believe we have hidden cameras or such equipment in our homes etc) and that the ones doing this to us are either some local people, neighbors, family etc. This is not the case for the majority of victims. 

Now, when taking part of information mentioned above, we nee to realize that this is not done by some enemy from the past or that our technical eqippment is being bugged.

Its us, our bodies that are under this s.c. surveillance, and its also our own bodies that infere with the technical equippment. This is done remotely by BMI. (our bodies/brains are "online" 24/7)

If we are ever gonna get recognization and make the public-yet not targeted individuals, aware of that this is really happening to human beings right now, and that we are not "crazy",we need put serious posts out here and not our own assumptions that we might be manipulated to believe.  

I ask all members to reconsider this when posting and reading here./Annie

Please forward it to everyone, especially to signers. If any problems, please tell us. Let's work together to fix them.

On behalf of myself, thank you for your work for every victim.

Best,

Robin

furman v. georgia 428.us 238 92 s ct.  the supreme ct stated that the state must not arbitrarily inflict a severe punishment the very words cruel and unusual punishment imply condemnation of the arbitrary infliction of severe punishments. a punishment is excessive under this principal if it is unnecessary. the infliction of a severe punishment by the state cannot comport with human dignity when it is nothing more than the pointless infliction of suffering.  

when a small group of governement employees using federal funding arbitatily targets a group of people or an individual they consider to be undesirable outside the boundries of constitutional law & the legal system as a whole, and is being facilitated by governmental infrastructure, the actions are wholly outside the public's trust it is a violation of moral and ethical obligation by all parties. They cease to serving the public good and become a threat to the community as a whole. They offending groups need to be made accountable for their actions by public standard.

If through wall techniques and electomagnetic and subsonic/ultrasonic weapons are not regulated and controlled, these are , together with nuclear weapons, the main threats of the future.

Development and use of those devices should be regulated as much as possible worldwide if we want to save mindkind.

Otherwise new illness and forms of deaths, some completely new, will appear. As well the possibility of creating and simulating illnesses and kill people with these new weapons, wrongly called non-lethal. They can kill.

The world is divided, at this moment, between those who know about this and those who ignore it.

You can spend your life doing interesting things, but these are issues that interact with the lives of people all over the world.

I am not a specialist in any weapon.

But suffered the attacks of V2K at the exit of an airport and a combination of these weapons at a hospital. It is not an aggreeable experience.

Think that the different in my perception of the danger is that I studied physics for many years and "I know" that it is enough one fatal exposure for them - the bad people - change your life forever. When I read what I have read recently about people radiated in Cincinnatti and other people contaminated on purpose by doctors I could not avoid being afraid, since I had already been victim of non-consensual experimentation myself. That is why I think that somewhere, somebody has thought of my death since some time ago.

And that is why I want that an investigation for Crimes Against Humanity and Violation of Universal Human Rights be initiated in my behalf.

There are many places where to find information about non-lethal weapons.

wanttoknow.info

surveillances issues

Are just to searches that I recommend.

All the procedures followed against me since 2007 have been highly illegal and based on threats.

Found peace only under the trees. Walls only served to host people from the other side, with these technologies, harming my health and invading my privacy. Be careful in the future. They are using it in the present.

Second tree is worse than first.

It is a place where I stay in the cold, partially protected from the wind.

Can go there only in the evening. Can listen to the comments of the people after 6:00 AM sometimes before, like at 2:00 AM. All like planned. I feel that my death has already been planned at some higher level, because it is a word that is constantly repeated in every message that they want to transmit.

I am not from this culture, so everything is new and threatening when things like this happen. I feel that they are taking advantage of that fact.

It is evident that they make that people do not like me. And that every effort I make to progress is jeopardized on purpose. My skills denied, for some specific reason. I can build websites with techniques that are recognized worldwide, work in database development, mechanical engineering and nuclear physics. Why can't a get a break? It is obvious that I have been targeted. And targeted hard.

Even though they use sex as a pretext. Oftenly I have been told that here there are no political groups. And that the criminals are the ones that take care of cases like me.

If I had been a political person with some specific objective against someone here, I would not be in the economic situation that I am. I think that I have been chosen because they saw me lonely, weak in my health and without connection. That is criminal, that is crime against humanity.

Only recently I have felt that I can coordinate my thoughts. The pills had slowed me down dangerously. If there was some beneficial effects the side effects were extremely hard.

The anesthesia had as a consequence that my spine, in the base, hurts a lot.

Under second tree, walking up in the morning was difficult because the pain in the spine.

There was a excavenger place nearby. It was not an aggreeable experience.

Second tree was the only place that I could sleep up for some time. 

Oftenly there I thought what Abou meant by "three way".

He insisted that it was a method that could not fail.

And then, in one of the places I sleep I find something like a Y with equal angles between the divisions - 120 degrees each.

And a guy passes by in a truck and says I want you out of here.

It was not a good experience with Abou at the hospital. Nor with his friends.