Neurala and the Neuromorphics Lab work featured on BU Today

• Neurala and the Neuromorphics Lab work featured on BU Today

  April 4, 2013 | By Max Versace

  This article and video in BU Today features the work of the Neurala and Neuromorphics Lab team in the NASA STTR Phase I "Adaptive bio-inspired navigation for planetary exploration". The video in the article illustrates the project and includes brief interviews with Max Versace, Tim Barnes, and Aisha Sohail.  Read the rest of this entry »
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• Max Versace featured on the February edition of Geek Magazine

  February 14, 2013 | By Max Versace

  GEEK, an American print magazine launched in 2006, is "a lifestyle magazine for geeks of every kind".

  The February edition of GEEK features me in a broad-band interview from Matt Casey in topics ranging from robotics cutting edge technology, to robotics ethics,... to sci-fi movies.

   

   

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• Interview on Boston Globe – Adapteva

  December 3, 2012 | By Max Versace

  

  We have heard that Adapteva, the Lexington, MA, startup is raising capital for his company’s new computer, called Parallella. For this purpose, CEO Olofsson turned to Kickstarter, the online “crowdfunding” service that lets ordinary people invest money like venture capitalists. Today's article ."For chip maker, ‘crowdfunding’ computes article" on the Boston Globe tells you everything about it, and has a quote from me as well.
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• New article in New Scientist featuring my lab

  November 24, 2012 | By Max Versace

  A new article on New scientist features Spikey, the new chip coming out of Karlheinz Meier's group. The University of Heidelberg, Germany, chip contains contains 400 "neurons". The original article (see link) describes the various networks the group was able to implement in the chip, which includes a variety of different circuits. The article also features MoNETA and the lab work.  Read the rest of this entry »
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• Collision avoidance in unmanned aerial vehicles – The neuromorphic approach

  September 23, 2012 | By Max Versace

   The collaborative work by Neuromorphics Lab and NASA scientists Tim Barnes, Florian Raudies, Schuyler Eldridge, Ajay Joshi, Massimiliano Versace (NL), and Mark Motter (NASA) has been featured on the italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore in an article by Luca Tremolada. Read the online article or download the PDF (Italian)
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• NASA Center Innovation Fund & Neuromorphics Lab – Video

  September 16, 2012 | By Max Versace

   The Neuromorphics Lab (CompNet) has been working with NASA Langley on a Center Innovation Fund (CIF) under my supervision with the goal of developing neuromorphic algorithms and hardware for vision and learning in unmanned aerial vehicles. Read the rest of this entry »
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• Advances in Neuromorphic Memristor Science and Applications

  August 13, 2012 | By Max Versace

  The recent book Advances in Neuromorphic Memristor Science and Applications, part of the Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems (Editors Robert Kozma, Robinson E. Pino, and Giovanni E. Pazienza), contains two chapters written by my colleagues and myself.  Read the rest of this entry »
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• “Future Tense” documentary

  June 21, 2012 | By Max Versace

  Future Tense is a series of documentaries exploring cutting-edge technologies that will dramatically change the world we live in. The next Episode will be focused on Artificial Intelligence, and will airs on July 1st at 1:30 PM ET. The documentary features also the work done in the Neuromorphics Lab. Watch the trailer here and the full documentary below.  Read the rest of this entry »
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• Advice to 2012 Boston University Graduates

  May 17, 2012 | By Max Versace

  For the past four years, Boston University faculty and staff have watched members of the Class of 2012 as you pursued your passions, made friends, became a little more of what you will be for the rest of your lives. We can’t let you leave without taking one last opportunity to offer some words of wisdom. And one more thing: we’ll miss you.
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• New article in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

  May 14, 2012 | By Max Versace

  Abstract: Many cortical networks contain recurrent architectures that transform input patterns before storing them in short-term memory (STM).Theorems in the 1970’s showed how feedback signal functions in rate-based recurrent on-center off-surround networks control this process. A sigmoid signal function induces a quenching threshold below which inputs are suppressed as noise and above which they are contrast-enhanced before pattern storage.

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