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 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 ...

We've long used the brain as inspiration for computers, but the SpiNNaker supercomputer, switched on this month, is probably the closest we’ve come to recreating it in silicon. Now scientists hope to ...