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Professor Pieter Roelfsema, Director of Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience. Credit: NIN.

Breakthrough in Developing Technology to Restore Functional Vision for the Blind

Andrea Macdonald founder of ideaXme interviews Professor Dr Pieter Roelfsema Director of the Netherlands Instititute for Neuroscience Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme: [00:06:52] I’m Andrea Macdonald, the founder of ideaXme. Breakthrough towards developing technology to restore functional vision in the blind Andrea Macdonald founder ideaXme [00:07:10] This episode concerns itself with a breakthrough towards developing a technology to […]

Steve Furber Brain

Super ‘Human Like’ Computer

Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Stephen Furber, ICL Professor, Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester and Creator of SpiNNaker. SpiNNaker is short for Spiking Neural Network Architecture. It is a super ‘human like’ computer, which has been in the planning for 20 years. It is a neural network computer, the current main focus […]