2015 R&D 100 Editor's Choice Award: IT/Electrical

2015 R&D 100 Editor's Choice Award Winner: IT/Electrical

For IT/Electrical we presented the Editor’s Choice Award toIBM’s TrueNorth. The TrueNorth neurosynaptic chip embodies a new architecture inspired by the brain and is designed to perform similar tasks of perception, recognition, association and decision efficiently. Each chip contains 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses and are designed so they homogeneously scale to build larger systems, while consuming only 70 mW of power. The chip is literally a supercomputer the size of a postage stamp, consuming the power of a hearing aid battery.

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Technology
Neurosynaptic chip

Developer
IBM

Award Year

 

2015

Organization

IBM

Developers

 

Filipp Akopyan

Rodrigo Alvarez-Icaza

Arnon Amir

Alexander Anderopoulos

Rathinakumar Appuswamy

John Arthur

Sameh Asaad

Christian Baks

Ralph Bellofatto

Bernard Brezzo

Andrew Cassidy

Charles Cox

Pallab Datta

Steven Esser

Myron Flickner

Daniel Friedman

Marc Gonzalez-Tallada

Chen Guo

Chuck Haymes

Nabil Imam

Ken Inoue

Bryan Jackson

Jeffrey Kusnitz

Scott Lekuch

Rajit Manohar

Michael Mastro

Emmett McQuinn

Paul Merolla

Steve Millman

Dr. Dharmendra Modha (Principal Investigator)

Roger Mousalli

Yutaka Nakamura

Tapan Nayak

Don Nguyen

William Risk

Jun Sawada

Kai Schleupen

Raghav Singh

Brian Taba

Ivan Vo