“If we can avoid issues before they happen, it's an enormous game," Cisco's JP Vasseur said. “One of the mechanisms that we believe is used by the brain to learn is a prediction,” JP Vasseur, Cisco ...

Predictive analytics can reveal lurking network problems before they impact reliability or performance. Once considered a futuristic technology, predictive analytics is poised to become a mainstream ...

The learning algorithm that enables the runaway success of deep neural networks doesn’t work in biological brains, but researchers are finding alternatives that could. In 2007, some of the leading ...

Randy Barrett is a freelance writer and editor based in Washington, D.C. A large part of his portfolio career includes teaching banjo and fiddle as well as performing professionally. Not long ago, IT ...

The artificial intelligence systems that guide drones and self-driving cars rely on neural networks—trainable computing systems inspired by the human brain. But the digital computers they run on were ...

How our brain, a three-pound mass of tissue encased within a bony skull, creates perceptions from sensations is a long-standing mystery. Abundant evidence and decades of sustained research suggest ...

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.