IBM to build brain-like computers

By Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News

Mimicking synapses like this one is crucial to the effort

IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains.

Part of a field called "cognitive computing", the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists.

As a first step in its research the project has been granted $4.9m (