New Computer Chip Modeled on a Living Brain

From Popular Science

Note the reference to the von Neumann bottleneck (esp. students in Organization of Programming Languages). See more about von Neumann architecture.

“This new architecture represents a critical shift away form today’s traditional von Neumann computers, to extremely power-efficient architecture,” Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research, said in an interview. “It integrates memory with processors, and it is fundamentally massively parallel and distributed as well as event-driven, so it begins to rival the brain’s function, power and space.”