Spiking Neural Network Architecture

Abstract

This installment of Computer's series highlighting the work published in IEEE Computer Society journals comes from IEEE Transactions on Computers. The first Web extra is a video in which Steve Furber introduces a paper, recently published in IEEE Transactions on Computers, that presents an overview of the architecture of the SpiNNaker massively parallel neurocomputer (https://youtu.be/EhPpxsK2Ia0). SpiNNaker was designed for brain-modeling applications, and will ultimately employ a million ARM processor cores to model up to a billion spiking neurons in biological real time. The second Web extra is a video in which the IEEE Computer Society presented its 2013 Computer Pioneer Award to Stephen B. Furber for pioneering work as a principal designer of the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor (https://youtu.be/x_H_6xG1TEs).