ARM Inventor Steve Furber on SpiNNaker 1, 2, and Beyond




EE Times Current show

Summary: In this latest episode of Brains and Machines (http://brainsandmachines.net/), EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks to now Emeritus Professor Steve Furber (http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber/) as he prepares to leave the University of Manchester. They talk about associative memories, the original SpiNNaker neural simulator designed using densely-interconnected ARM cores, and the new generation of the technology currently being assembled. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) from the Italian Institute of Technology and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings (https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/) from Johns Hopkins University.