Analog VLSI and neural systems
by Carver Mead · first published 1989
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Ha ha, thanks, Carver Mead- been awhile since I read his book, Analog VLSI and Neural Systems. He is really brilliant and awesome. Here's his website if anyone is interested: http://carvermead.caltech.edu/index.html
on “We will see a completely new type of computer, says AI pioneer Geoff Hinton” ↗Carver Mead's "Analog VLSI and Neural Systems" for where neuromorphic computing started. Intel's Loihi papers (Mike Davies et al.) for where it is now. Our paper takes a different path — constraints instead of neurons.
on “The Universal Constraint Engine: Neuromorphic Computing Without Neural Networks” ↗The field of neuromorphic engineering is rather big. Started off with Carver Mead's book "Analog VLSI and Neural Systems" (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1989), and a very cool paper titled "A Silicon Neuron" by Mahowald and Douglas (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v354/n6354/abs/354515a0... , Nature 354,…
on “Brain-Like Chip May Solve Computers' Big Problem: Energy” ↗…Faggin and Carver Mead founded Synaptics with an idea to make neuromorphic chips which would be fast and power efficient by harnessing analog computation. Carver Mead published a book on that in 1989: "Analog VLSI and Neural Systems", but making working chips turned to be too hard, and Synaptics successfully pivoted to touchpads and later many other types of hardware. Of course, the concept can be traced to an even older and still…
on “New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x” ↗The idea of analog neural networks is appealing. I bought Analog VLSI and Neural Systems in 1989 and still have it as a trophy on my bookshelves. My gut feeling says one day analog neural networks will be a thing, if only for the reason of considerable lower power consumption. I’m not saying…
on “New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x” ↗