IBM to build brain-like computers

A headline from the 1950s.

Haven't these guys heard of software? I thought the only good reason to do something in hardware was speed, but maybe I'm just crazy.

Cool story, but when I saw the picture (of the cat using the computer), all I could do was think of the LOLCat caption that got cropped out.<p>"I can haz brain?"<p>"I thinkz lik computr?"<p>"I'm in ur nural netz, thinkin ur thotz"<p>It got so bad I couldn't finish the article.

I wonder, will the brain-like computers need sleep?

I think the future is in large-scale parallel computing. They shouldn't be wasting their money on this. So working on parallel processing would be the most practical path to attaining this goal.