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From: "Basie" <>
Subject: Computer model of the brain created
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:06:07 -0500

Computer model of the brain created
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have, for the first time, 
applied a computer model of how the brain processes visual information to a 
complex, real world task.

"People have been talking about computers imitating the brain for a long 
time," said Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Tomaso Poggio. 
"That was Alan Turing's original motivation in the 1940s. But in the last 50 
years, computer science and AI (artificial intelligence) have developed 
independently of neuroscience."

Thomas Serre, a postdoctoral associate in Poggio's lab, said the team 
developed a model of the visual system that was meant to be useful for 
neuroscientists in designing and interpreting experiments but that also 
could be used for computer science.

The research appears in the March issue of the journal of the Institute of 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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