Plenary presentation B
Due to the continue driving of the Moore's law, semiconductor technology make the tera-scale integration become possible. With so many transistors in a single chip, many dream applications become possible. Designers are eager to use those tremendous capacity of the integration circuits to bring more intelligent, more smart functions. One of the challenge target is can we design the circuits to make the SOC perform tasks that humans do quickly and easily? Can we make the computer to recognize images, understand language, learn knowledge, and control robots? In this presentation, the concept of Bio-inspiring computing which takes the advantages of neural science will be described. Some previous studies tried to explain the behavior of the human neocortex and provide a framework for building models that could be implemented and executed with Tera-scale SOC. Research suggested that the structure of the neocortex is hierarchical, and that the emulation of 6 levels of hierarchy is sufficient to achieve sophisticated recognition and analysis of visual images. Some experimental results will be presented to demo the possibility. It could be the dawn of the age of intelligence machines and neocortical computing. There will be many opportunities that Tera-scale SOC could create.