If you had doubts before starting to read Neurdon, I think that by now you have come to the realization that there are as many neuroscientists that use computers than computer scientists that want to “use” neuroscience. This post is another example of the latter: Steve Furber, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester and leader of the team that designed the the 32bit ARM microprocessor, is trying to build a large-scale neural simulator out of ARM processors. Read the rest of this entry »