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 ...

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 ...

A neuromorphic computer hosted at the UK's University of Manchester suffered an outage last month. As first reported by The Register, the university's SpiNNaker machine was brought down after its ...

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 ...