• DocumentCode
    1950251
  • Title

    Artificial Brains - A Cheap Method for Speeding the Evolution of Neural Network Modules for Artificial Brain Building

  • Author

    De Garis, Hugo ; Yu, Tang Jian ; Di, Huang

  • Author_Institution
    Wuhan Univ., Wuhan
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    12-17 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    2835
  • Lastpage
    2839
  • Abstract
    This paper shows how a "Celoxica" electronic accelerator board (containing a Xilinx Virtex II FPGA chip) can be used to speed up, by a factor of about 50 times, the evolution of neural network modules, so that building artificial brains that consist of 10,000 s of interconnected modules can be made practical. We hope that this work will prove to be an important stepping stone towards making the new field of brain building both practical and cheap enough for many research groups to start building their own artificial brains.
  • Keywords
    artificial organs; evolutionary computation; field programmable gate arrays; medical computing; neural chips; Celoxica electronic accelerator board; Xilinx Virtex II FPGA chip; artificial brain building; neural network module evolution; Acceleration; Artificial neural networks; Biological neural networks; Electron accelerators; Field programmable gate arrays; Genetic algorithms; Hardware; Humans; Neural networks; Neurons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 2007. IJCNN 2007. International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Orlando, FL
  • ISSN
    1098-7576
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1379-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1098-7576
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.2007.4371409
  • Filename
    4371409