Sure, let's move to Nengo forums. Do you mind creating a topic there and sending me a link? I actually don't know much about spiking NNs (software or hardware)

Sure, let's move to Nengo forums. Do you mind creating a topic there and sending me a link? I actually don't know much about spiking NNs (software or hardware), but Spaun seems like the only real competitor to HTM. Unlike Spaun, Numenta's algorithms are not currently limited by computational resources, because they focus on a rather small part of neocortex (2-3 layers of a single region, working with tiny input sizes), and they abstract spikes. Numenta claims that if we understand what spikes are doing (computation and information transfer), then there's not need to emulate them exactly, we can construct algorithms which do the same thing using traditional computations and data structures. Instead, HTM wants to understand what the layers do and how they interact. There have been an interesting discussion on Numenta mailing list, with James Smith, who is developing his own spikes-focused theory of the neural computation: http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic-theory_lists.numenta.org/2015-June/002846.html http://lists.numenta.org/pipermail/nupic-theory_lists.nument... I believe he has been working on it since, and plans to publish a book. The internship offer is from HRL, a small company in Malibu. It's quite possible that they are looking at the ideas of your lab-mate, and they might even ask me to implement them. I'm still deciding though.