CAREER: Neuromorphic Computation in Silico

0093851 Boahen这个项目将推进一个新兴的跨学科研究领域的核心，称为神经形态工程，最初由加州理工学院的Carver Mead开创。 神经形态工程在神经科学和新微芯片的开发之间建立了一座新的桥梁，新微芯片试图复制大脑硬件的能力;它还试图提高我们对大脑本身的信息处理和硬件问题（如能量耗散，精度和纳米级操作）的理解。 神经形态工程仍处于非常早期的阶段，但它有可能在未来的某个时候为工程和神经科学带来革命性的好处。该项目将特别关注大脑高级视觉系统的逆向工程，使用能够模拟大脑中尖峰神经元的硬件，并解决注意力或意识和意识等问题。 它还将包括在发展新的教育基础方面开展大量工作，以便在这类跨学科工作中取得重大进展。

0093851BoahenThis project will advance the core of a new emerging area of crossdisciplinary research called neuromorphic engineering, originally pioneered by Carver Mead of CalTech. Neuromorphic engineering builds a new bridge between neuroscience and the development of new microchips which try to replicate the capabilities of the hardware of the brain; it also attempts to improve our understanding both of information processing and of hardware issues (like energy dissipation, precision, and nanoscale operation) in the brain itself. Neuromorphic engineering is still at a very early stage, but it has the potential for revolutionary benefits both to engineering and to neuroscience sometime in the future.This project will focus particularly on reverse-engineering the higher visual system of the brain, using hardware capable of emulating spiking neurons in the brain, and addressing issues such as attention or awareness and consciousness. It will also include substantial work in developing the new educational base required to allow serious progress in this kind of crossdisciplinary work.