"Eventually, by connecting many such chips, Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research Almaden, in San Jose, California, hopes to build a shoebox-sized supercomputer wit

"Eventually, by connecting many such chips, Dharmendra Modha of IBM Research Almaden, in San Jose, California, hopes to build a shoebox-sized supercomputer with 10 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses" and for comparison: "the ultra-efficient human brain is estimated to have 100 billion neurons and at least 100 trillion synapses" This is amazing. IBM is actually reaching towards the old dream of creating a computer that is as powerful as the human brain. I'm aware that hardware alone doesn't do it, but still damn impressive.