<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone, <div><br></div><div>This is just a reminder about the seminar tomorrow, 11:00 in PAS 2464. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards, </div><div>Bryan <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Bryan Tripp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bptripp@gmail.com" target="_blank">bptripp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi everyone, </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">We will start the seminar series a little early this year. Steve Furber will be in the area next week and has agreed to give a talk on SpiNNaker. </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Please note this will be in the morning rather than the usual time. </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Regards, </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Bryan </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Title: The SpiNNaker project</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Abstract:</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Just two years after the world's first stored program ran its first program at Manchester in</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">1948, Alan Turing published his seminal paper on "Computing Machinery and Intelligence".</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">The paper opens with the words: I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?".</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Turing then goes on to explore this question thought what he calls "The Imitation Game", but</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">which subsequent generations simply call "The Turing Test".</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Despite spectacular progress in the performance and efficiency of machines since Turing's</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">time, we have yet to see any convincing demonstration of a machine that can pass his test.</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">This would have surprised Turing - he believed that all that would be required was more</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">memory. Although cognitive systems are beginning to display impressive environmental</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">awareness, they do not come close to the sort of "thinking" that Turing had in mind.</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">My take on the problems with true artificial intelligence are that we still really haven't worked</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">out what natural intelligence is. Until we do, all discussion of machine intelligence and</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">"the singularity" are specious. Based on this view, we need to return to the source of</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">natural intelligence, the human brain. The SpiNNaker project has been 15 years in conception</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">and 8 years in construction, but is now ready to contribute to the growing global community</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">(exemplified by the EU Human Brain Project) that is aiming to deploy the vast computing</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">resources now available to us to accelerate our understanding of the brain, with the ultimate</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">goal of understanding the information processing principles at work in natural intelligence. </div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Bio:</div><div style="font-family:tt;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div>Steve Furber CBE FRS FREng is ICL Professor of Computer Engineering in the School</div><div>of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. After completing a BA in mathematics</div><div>and a PhD in aerodynamics at the University of Cambridge, UK, he spent the 1980s at Acorn</div><div>Computers, where he was a principal designer of the BBC Microcomputer and the ARM</div><div>32-bit RISC microprocessor. Over 60 billion variants of the ARM processor have since been</div><div>manufactured, powering much of the world's mobile and embedded computing. He moved</div><div>to the ICL Chair at Manchester in 1990 where he leads research into asynchronous and</div><div>low-power systems and, more recently, neural systems engineering, where the SpiNNaker</div><div>project is delivering a computer incorporating a million ARM processors optimised for brain</div><div>modelling applications.</div></div></div>
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