Page "Hugo de Garis" Paragraph 13

The original aim of de Garis ' work was to establish the field of " brain building " ( a term of his invention ) and to " create a trillion dollar industry within 20 years ".

Throughout the 90s his papers claimed that by 2001 the ATR " Robokoneko " ( translation: kitten robot ) project would develop a billion-neuron " cellular automata machine brain " ( CAM-brain ), with " computational power equivalent to 10, 000 pentiums " that could simulate the brain of a real cat.

de Garis received a US $ 0. 4 million " fat brain building grant " to develop this.

The first " CAM-brain " was delivered to ATR in 1999.

After receiving a further US $ 1 million grant at Starlab de Garis failed to deliver a working " brain " before Starlab's bankruptcy.

At USU de Garis announced he was establishing a " brain builder " group to create a second generation " CAM-brain ".