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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

SmartPlanet: Harvard, MIT researchers use gaming GPUs to simulate brain

By | December 4, 2009, 10:16am PST

Summary: Researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Researchers from Harvard and MIT have demonstrated a way to build better artificial visual systems with the help of low-cost, high-performance gaming hardware.

Using graphics processing units, or GPUs — the same technology that makes your favorite video game possible to play with detailed visual graphic effects — along with a screening technique borrowed from genetics, the team is attempting to mimic the human brain’s ability to process visual data.

Read more of “Harvard, MIT researchers attempt to reverse-engineer the human brain with gaming hardware” on SmartPlanet’s Smart Takes blog.

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Andrew J. Nusca is associate editor of ZDNet and editor of SmartPlanet.

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Andrew Nusca

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Andrew J. Nusca is an associate editor at ZDNet and editor of SmartPlanet. As a journalist based in New York City, he has written for Popular Mechanics and Men's Vogue and his byline has appeared in New York magazine, The Huffington Post, New York Daily News, Editor & Publisher, New York Press and many others. He also writes The Editorialiste, a media criticism blog.

He is a New York University graduate and former news editor and columnist of the Washington Square News. He is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been named "Howard Kurtz, Jr." by film critic John Lichman despite having no relation to him. He lives in his native Philadelphia with his wife, cat and Boston Terrier.

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