Neuromorphic engineering is the ~buzzword that pays for my grant~ is a loosely defined field that was basically started by Carver Mead in the 70s: https://en.wi

Neuromorphic engineering is the ~buzzword that pays for my grant~ is a loosely defined field that was basically started by Carver Mead in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering It's basically doing for compute what biomimetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics did already for materials and robots (Festo has some amazing stuff here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JvyzOddTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-JvyzOddTM), looking at systems in nature when designing VLSI circuits. Examples would be looking at the eye for camera sensors, the ear for audio, the brain for computation etc. So it's an orthogonal field that happens to marry nicely with some of the properties of memristives, in that both with them and in the brain there needs to be consideration of noise, false firings etc. It also gets people (like me) excited because it opens up a way for routing and synaptic plasticity which was missing for ML-ASICs so far