Intelligence Realms Status Update - Jan 28, 2008

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We will finalize soon the release of the simulator for all platforms (i.e. Unix, Windows, Mac) and that would conclude the first phase of the project. The estimate is about one or two weeks for all of them. We would also like provide an update and present a timeline of the overall project for the near-term future, about one year from now on. Once we will be able to estimate more precisely the number of machines, time, disk size, bandwidth and other requirements for simulating the entire brain we will prepare a short report and we will send it to publication. That would probably happen in a couple of months. To date over 4800 WUs have been processed successfully. That is over 14,000,000 neurons simulated. The rat has an estimated 21,000,000 neurons. We should bypass this figure within a couple of days. In a couple of months we will also release a video presentation of the project for the public at large. We expect to increase the awareness of our work and to continue the public education in a gradual fashion. This will remain an important goal of the project. While the neural simulator is the main aplication we have started three other projects: the visualization application, the neuronal generation program and the knowledge acquisition. We have already advanced to some degree with all of them due to the previous months of work performed on that. A lot more work is still required though. The visualization software will allow us to view and control in real-time what happens inside the neuronal simulator. The neuronal generator is going to be a computing-intensive application because it will use evolutionary computing (i.e. genetic algorithms) to build neurons. These neurons will later on be simulated using the simulator and visualized using the visual program. We will continue working on the neuronal generator as soon as we release all the client applications. The knowledge acquisition program is needed for the learning component of the system. Once the system will have that up and running we would need to train the system and feed it with information so that it can build its knowledge base. We plan on using plain text files with data: articles, books, dictionaries. Most Internet pages are copyrighted so the challenge would be to find sources of information that provide content in the public domain for this project. We put he initial project files under the aisystem/know folder in the source code. The visualization program will have lower priority during all this period. We will also continue working on the simulator. Source Code Downloads: 1165 Teams: 321 Computers: 1082 Participants: 927

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