It was the IBM SyNAPSE Chip [1]. It's actually been known since 1988/89 that neural networks can approximate any continuous function [2], but this chapter expla

It was the IBM SyNAPSE Chip [1]. It's actually been known since 1988/89 that neural networks can approximate any continuous function [2], but this chapter explains how in a much more intuitive sense. [1] http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynaptic-chips.shtml#fbid=m4f-fhy-N2- http://www.research.ibm.com/cognitive-computing/neurosynapti... [2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=70408 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=70408