A podcast about neuromorphic engineering and biologically-inspired technology
Sunny talks to Dr Tobi Delbrück, one of the original neuromorphic engineers from Carver Mead’s team at Caltech. Now a professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, he has spent his career developing neuromorphic cameras and other technology. You’ll find out how he got started in the field, his work developing the dynamic vision sensor, also known as an event camera, and the pros and cons of sparse representations. Read More …
Sunny gets deep into nanoscale ferroelectrics with Professor Beatriz Noheda, Director of the Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center. They discuss how this unusual interdisciplinary research center works, why nanoscale ferroelectrics may be useful in brain-like systems, and a little about how they are designed and fabricated. Discussion follows with Giulia and Ralph. Read More …
Sunny talks to Professor Melika Payvand who designs neural systems from the circuit-level up at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich. They discuss the role that memristors play in the systems she designs, why neural circuits need to operate at different timescales, and how copying some features of biological dendrites could add computational power to silicon brains. Read More …
Sunny talks to now Emeritus Professor Steve Furber 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. Read More …
Sunny talks to Dr Yulia Sandamirskaya, who has just created the Neuromorphic Computing Group at Zurich University of Applied Sciences. They discuss the role that dynamical systems theory plays in robotics, her work at with Intel’s Loihi platform, and what she plans to do in her new position at ZHAW, particularly related to vision. Read More …
Sunny talks to Professor Giacomo Indiveri, a stalwart neuromorphic engineer based at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich, Switzerland. You’ll learn how he sees the trade-offs between analog and digital in the marketplace, the chips he has in the lab and on the drawing board, and — as a purist — the evolution of the term neuromorphic. Read More …
Sunny talks to Dr Mitra Hartmann: Professor of both Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, and head of their Sensory and Neural Engineering Group. They discuss why how modelling rat whiskers can make us better both at understanding the brain and building technology, and why she is finds the neuromorphic engineering community so intellectually rewarding. Read More …
Sunny talks to Professor Elisabetta Chicca, head of the Bio-inspired Circuits and Systems Group at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. They discuss building neural chips with memristors, adding electronic brains to neural robots, some of the current difficulties with learning algorithms for spiking systems and more. Read More …
Sunny interviews Professor André van Schaik, Director of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems at Western Sydney University. They talk about about how neuromorphic engineering has changed since the early ’90s, a new project to help simulate neural and neuromorphic models, and more. Read More …