CAREER: Neuromorphic Computation in Silico

这个项目将推进一个名为神经形态工程的新兴交叉学科研究领域的核心，该领域最初是由加州理工大学的卡弗·米德开创的。神经形态工程学在神经科学和试图复制大脑硬件能力的新型微芯片开发之间架起了一座新的桥梁；它还试图提高我们对信息处理和大脑本身的硬件问题(如能量消耗、精度和纳米级操作)的理解。神经形态工程学仍处于非常早期的阶段，但它有可能在未来某个时候为工程学和神经科学带来革命性的好处。这个项目将特别关注对大脑的高级视觉系统进行逆向工程，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所需的大量工作，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.