This recent book, part of the Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems (Editors Robert Kozma, Robinson E. Pino, and Giovanni E. Pazienza), is one that may become part of Neurdons bookshelves. In "Advances in Neuromorphic Memristor Science and Applications", the main researchers behind the pioneering work on memristors and their applications to bio-inspired machine intelligence review the state of the art and predict trends. The Abstract: Physical implementation of the memristor at industrial scale sparked the interest from various disciplines, ranging from physics, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, neuroscience, to intelligent robotics. As any promising new technology, it has raised hopes and questions; it is an extremely challenging task to live up to the high expectations and to devise revolutionary and feasible future applications for memristive devices. The possibility of gathering prominent scientists in the heart of the Silicon Valley given by the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held in San Jose, CA, has offered us the unique opportunity of organizing a series of special events on the present status and future. Read the rest of this entry »
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Advances in Neuromorphic Memristor Science and Applications
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Better late than never: Intel neural chips & memristors, but with a spin…
| June 18, 2012
Charles Augustine at Intel's Circuit Research Laboratory in Hillsboro, Oregon, and a few of his colleagues unveil their design for a neuromorphic chip based on memristors and spin valves. Neurdons have heard this before... Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away.... Read the rest of this entry »Comments: 4 Comments -
Learning to see in a virtual world
| September 18, 2011
This post is authored by Jasmin Leveille and Gennady Livitz, two Neuromorphics Lab researchers working on the development of the MoNETA brain. The goal of the MOdular Neural Exploring Traveling Agent (MoNETA; Versace and Chanlder, 2010) project is to develop an animat, or virtual agent, that can intelligently interact and learn to navigate a virtual world making decisions aimed at increasing rewards while avoiding danger. The animat is designed to be modular: a whole brain system, or artificial nervous system including many cortical and subcortical areas found in mammalian brains, is progressively refined with more complex and adaptive modules, and is tested in increasingly more challenging environment. This post discusses the development of a key component of the visual system. Read the rest of this entry »Comments: Leave a comment -
Fuzzy logic and memristive hardware
| August 9, 2011
This brief essay, originated by the work on the Neuromorphics Lab in the DARPA SyNAPSE project, describes our early effort in the study of alternative computing schemes that will make use of massive memristive-based devices coupled with low-power CMOS processes to efficiently compute neural activation and learning in novel computing devices. The answer was to couple fuzzy inference with dense memristive memory. This combination can provide extensive power and silicon real estate savings while maintaining a high degree of accuracy in the resulting precision of the computations. Read the rest of this entry »Comments: 11 Comments -
Silicon brains
| July 19, 2011
This article, appeared on 7/19/2011 on AZoRobotics, discusses the main reasons why I believe that we are on the verge of a paradigm shift in the way robots are going to be programmed. AZoRobotics.com is part of AZoNetwork, a leading online science, engineering and medical publisher serving over 2.5 million monthly visitor sessions across its suite of sites.... so it's a good venue to get some valuable feedback.
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Memristors – a revolutionary research field
| December 19, 2010
In 1971, Prof. Leon Chua from UC Berkeley published an article about the memristor, a fourth passive element in electronics (in addition to resistor, capacitor and inductor). Since Chua's article, memristors have become an exciting device that potentially can revolutionize the electronic industry. Chua predicted, only because of symmetry reasons, that there is a missing passive element, whose main characteristic is a relationship between flux (the total voltage being applied on it) and electric charge (the total current that had flown through it). Such a device actually acts as a resistor, but unlike the conventional resistor, its resistance is not constant, nor depends upon the temporary voltage being applied to it (as is the case for non-linear resistors). Read the rest of this entry »
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MoNETA IEEE article: a summary until now
| December 5, 2010
The online version of the IEEE Spectrum article describing our work on the MoNETA project (withing the DARPA SyNAPSE grant) has been out for a bit more than a week, and the story is starting to generate many comments and being picked up by blogs and magazines (see Slashdot and Popular Science). May be it's time to summarize what is happening, and starting to address the many comments related to the article. Ben and I will start a series of posts on the topic, this one being the first. Read the rest of this entry » -
Neurdons on IEEE Spectrum cover page!
| November 23, 2010
December won't be a boring month for Neurdons. Two of us (who is writing, and Ben Chandler) will be featured in the cover page, back page story, and in an article title "MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors. DARPA's new memristor-based approach to AI consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information" on the December issue of IEEE Spectrum. The preview of the article has appeared online. Read the rest of this entry » -
Boston University Team SyNAPSE presentation, August DARPA site visit
| September 8, 2010
This post contains the videos of the Boston University team presentation during the recent DARPA SyNAPSE site visit occurred in August 2010, in Palo Alto. This presentation talks about the ongoing projects undertaken by the Boston University team in SyNAPSE since March 2010, with some of our most recent results and plans for the near future. Read the rest of this entry » -
HP and Hynix
| September 1, 2010
It was less than 24 hours ago since the last post echoing an article on the NYT on memristors, and two more articles have appeared on both the NYT and CNN with the reports of the announcement, made on Tuesday by HP, that it would commercialize a new computer memory technology with Hynix, the South Korean chip maker. Read the rest of this entry »
