The novel, brain-inspired computing system BrainScaleS at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics.
The novel, brain-inspired computing system BrainScaleS will be launched at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics of Heidelberg University. A workshop will inform about possible applications of the neuromorphic system now coming online. The workshop is addressed to users from academic research, industry and education and will be broadcasted as a web stream on 22 March 2016 from 3 pm to 6 pm CET. The BrainScaleS system has been constructed by an international research team led by Karlheinz Meier in the framework of the Human Brain Project (HBP) funded by the European Commission. Neuromorphic computers mimic aspects of architectures and principles found in biological brains on silicon chips. 'The Heidelberg BrainScaleS system goes beyond the paradigms of a Turing machine and the von Neumann architecture, both formulated during the middle of the 20th century by the computer pioneers Alan Turing and John von Neumann. It is neither executing a sequence of instructions nor is it constructed as a system of physically separated computing and memory units.
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