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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
By Mark D McDonnell
In May 2014, Proceedings of the IEEE published a Special Issue focused on elucidating the rapidly growing intersection between electronic engineering and the scientific field of computational neuroscience [1]. This field is an interdisciplinary area of scientific research in which one of …
Mark D. McDonnell (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, where he is Principle Investigator of the Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience. He previously received a PhD in Electronic Engineering from The University of Adelaide, …
This issue of the IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter brings you some very interesting and leading-edge information on the intersection between fundamental neuroscience research and electronic engineering. The May issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE was a special issue entitled “Engineering Intelligence Electronic Systems Based …
By Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, Giacomo Indiveri, and Derek Abbott
Neuromorphic engineering attempts to understand the computational properties of neural processing systems by building electronic circuits and systems that emulate the principles of computation in the neural systems. The electronic systems that are developed in this process …
By Terrence C. Stewart and Chris Eliasmith
We review the methods used to construct Spaun, the first biologically detailed brain model capable of performing cognitive tasks. Spaun has 2.5 million simple, spiking neurons with 60 billion connections between them. These neurons are arranged to respect known …
By Nicolas Franceschini
For several decades, engineers and biologists have attempted to harness animals’ sensory-motor intelligence to build autonomous machines. In the May 2014 issue of Proceeding of the IEEE, devoted to Engineering Intelligent Electronic Systems Based on Computational Neuroscience, the author describes how microoptical, behavioral …
Giacomo Indiveri is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland. He carried out research on neuromorphic vision sensors as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and on neuromorphic selective attention …
Derek Abbott is a full Professor within the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His interests are in the area of multidisciplinary physics and electronic engineering applied to complex systems. His research programs span a number of areas including …
Nicolas Franceschini received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering, the M.S. degree in control engineering, and the Doctorat d’Etat degree in physics from the University of Grenoble and National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France. He then studied neuroscience, behavioral science and biological cybernetics at the University …
Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi is a PhD candidate in the University of Adelaide, Australia. In 2012 and 2013, he was a visiting scholar in the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Mr Rahimi has won more than 15 nationally and internationally very competitive scholarships …
