Two years ago this month, IBM IBM announced that it had
developed a cognitive computer chip, inspired by human neural architecture.
That chip was developed as part of the SyNAPSE project, which has a long term
goal of building a computing system that can handle tasks that are relatively
easy for human brains, but hard for computers. Today, the company has announced
that it’s created a programming architecture for those chips so that developers
can design applications for them once those chips are a reality.