Videos

Selection of videos related to neuromorphic computing (the SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS platforms)

Please find videos from 2020 and newer on the videos page of the Neuromorphic Computing in EBRAINS collab - The Neuromorphic Compute systems SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS are accessible as part of the EBRAINS research infrastructure (Getting access) and the main access description is now on the EBRAINS collab.

Older videos -- until 2019

• Recordings of talks at the CodeJam#10 on 26-28 November 2019 in Heidelberg (Germany)
  • Johannes Schemmel: Neuromorphic Computing and why it need CodeJams
  • Andrew Rowley: Running a cortical micro-column in real-time in SpiNNaker
  • Christian Mauch: How modern software techniques can help the scientific process
• Recordings of hands-on tutorial sessions at the NICE 2019: SpiNNaker tutorial on YouTube and BrainScaleS tutorial on YouTube (from 29 March 2019)
• Talks at the 2019 Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop NICE 2019:
  • Steve Furber: "SpiNNaker applications": slides and video on YouTube
  • Johannes Schemmel: "Turing, or Non-Turing? That is the question": slides and video on YouTube
  • Mihai Petrovici: "Computing with physics:from biological to artificial intelligence and back again" slides and video on YouTube
• Live-on-tape demo of unsupervised learning on a neuromorphic chip (BrainScaleS-2 test chip): here on YouTube (uploaded on 21 March 2019)
• Talks at the 2018 Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE 2018)
  • Johannes Schemmel: Towards the Second Generation BrainScaleS System (video on vimeo)
  • Sebastian Höppner: SpiNNaker2 – Towards extremely efficient digital neuromorphics and multi-scale brain emulation (slides and video on vimeo)
  • Wolfgang Maass: Neuromorphic Networks of Spiking Neurons Learn to Learn (slides and video on vimeo)
  • Sebastian Schmitt: Experiments on BrainScaleS (slides and video on vimeo)
• Christof Koch and Karlheinz Meier: Brains and Computers: the future of neuroscience (ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function, on YouTube, published 10 April 2017) (Karlheinz Meier starts at 27min50sec)
• Steve Furber: Building Brains (on YouTube, 22 November 2016)
• Talks at the 2016 Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop (NICE 2016) (7-9 March 2016) in Berkeley
  • Karlheinz Meier: Neuromorphic Computing in the European Human Brain Project (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
  • Steve Furber: SpiNNaker update (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
  • Mihai Petrovici: Stochastic inference with deterministic spiking neurons (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
  • Wolfgang Maass: Principles of Network Optimization through STDP and Rewiring (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
  • Johannes Schemmel: Accelerated Analog Neuromorphic Hardware (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
• Karlheinz Meier: Neuromorphic Computing - Extreme Approaches to weak and strong scaling (on YouTube, published 13 May 2016)
• Steve Furber: Computers and brains (on YouTube, published 6 April 2016) showing the SpiNNaker machine
• Steve Furber: SpiNNaker updates (on YouTube, published 31 March 2016)
• HBP platforms: HBP Public Platform Release (for the Scientific Community V1) (on YouTube, 30 March 2016) The part showing Neuromorphic Computing (SpiNNaker and BrainScaleS systems and the access to them) starts at 2h00min30sec, presented by Karlheinz Meier, Steve Furber, Andreas Grübl and Andrew Davison.
• Karlheinz Meier: Brain science in the information age (The Brain Forum, on YouTube, published 30 September 2015)
• Karlheinz Meier: From BrainScales to Human Brain Project: Neuromorphic Computing Coming of Age  (IBM Research, on YouTube, published 11 June 2015)

• As part of HBP Education:
  • Part of the 3rd HBP Education Workshop - Future Computing:
    • Steve Furber: Future Developments in Microprocessor Design (on YouTube, published 2 May 2017)
    • Steve Furber on behalf of Karlheinz Meier: Developments in Neuromorphic Computing (on YouTube, published 2 May 2017 )
  • Steve Furber: Lecture 5: Cheap as Chips! (on YouTube, published 7 February 2017, part of the curriculum ICT for non-specialists)