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

EE Times Current

In this latest episode of Brains and Machines, EE Times regular Dr. Sunny Bains 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. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Italian Institute of Technology and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings from Johns Hopkins University.