SpiNNaker - A Spiking Neural Network Architecture (NowOpen)

Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng is ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing a BA in mathematics and a PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Cambridge, UK, he spent the 1980s at Acorn Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. Over 130 billion variants of the ARM processor have since been manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile and embedded computing. He moved to the ICL Chair at Manchester in 1990 where he leads research into asynchronous and low-power systems and, more recently, neural systems engineering, where the SpiNNaker project has delivered a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for brain modelling applications.

Petrut, Bogdan is a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. He received a BSc in Computer Science in 2016 and a PhD in Computer Science in 2019, both from the University of Manchester. His research focused on structural plasticity and real-time modelling of spiking neural networks on SpiNNaker.