Scientists at the University of Manchester are working on a project that aims to make a computer that can mimic the brain. The project is led by Professor Steve Furber who was one of the principal ...

Scientists just activated the world’s biggest “brain”: a supercomputer with a million processing cores and 1,200 interconnected circuit boards that together operate like a human brain. Ten years in ...

Forget your quad-core rigs, or octa-core phones, the ‘Spiking Neural Network Architecture’ or ‘SpiNNaker’ at the University of Manchester has a million cores. This machine can model more biological ...

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for ...