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

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.