Kwabena Boahen stands five feet ten. His head is shaved clean, revealing delicate veins that creep like vines up the base of his cranium. Inside, his brain weighs three pounds and runs on twenty ...

"From a pure energy perspective, the brain is hard to match," Kwabena Boahen, the bioengineer at Stanford University who led the chip's development, said in a statement. Not only are personal ...

Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new “Neurogrid” supercomputer ...

Professor Kwabena Boahen, a professor of bioengineering and of electrical engineering admires the brain’s efficiency and elegance, and he’s dedicated his career to developing a computer that ...

If the name Kwabena Boahen sounds familiar, you might remember silicon that emerged in the late 1990s that emulated the human retina. This retinomorphic vision system, which Boahen developed while at ...

Unlike most neuroscience labs, Kwabena Boahen’s lab at ­Stanford University is spotless–no scattered pipettes or jumbled arrays of chemical bottles. Instead, a lone circuit board, housing a ...

But Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering, would quickly argue that there are faults in that belief. (Courtesy of Kwabena Boahen) Boahen is the leader of the Neurogrid project in ...

Kwabena Boahen’s love affair with digital computers began and ended in 1981, when he was 16. Boahen lived outside the city of Accra in the West African nation of Ghana. His family’s sprawling block ...

Not only is the PC slower, it takes 40,000 times more power to run, writes Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford, in an article for the Proceedings of the IEEE. "From a ...

In fact, it currently ranks as the second-fastest supercomputer in the world. But, according to Kwabena Boahen, Ph.D., the Blue Gene still doesn't compare to the computational power of the brain ...