Cognitive computing programming paradigm: A Corelet Language for composing networks of neurosynaptic cores

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Amir, Arnon ^a   Datta, Pallab ^a   Risk, William P ^a   Cassidy, Andrew S ^a   Kusnitz, Jeffrey A ^a   Esser, Steve K ^a   Andreopoulos, Alexander ^a   Wong, Theodore M ^b   Flickner, Myron ^a   Alvarez Icaza, Rodrigo ^a   McQuinn, Emmett ^a   Shaw, Ben ^a   Pass, Norm ^a   Modha, Dharmendra S ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL SIMULATORS; COGNITIVE COMPUTING; COGNITIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; NEUMANN ARCHITECTURE; PROGRAMMER PRODUCTIVITY; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SEQUENTIAL PROGRAMMING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84893531144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2013.6707078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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