Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a webinar panel session that looked at the future of computer technology beyond the current era of ever shrinking silicon transistors as defined by Moore’s law.
Called â€Å“More than Mooreâ€ÂÂ, the webinar featured three panellists working in neuromorphic computing, a field that seeks to create information processing systems that mimic the human brain. We were also joined by a physicist who believes that quantum computing will play a role in the information processing of the future.
The panellists were Steve Furber of the UK’s University of Manchester, who does research on neural systems engineering; Chaoran Huang of the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who works on silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits, and nonlinear optics; Bhavin Shastri at Canada’s Queen’s University, who designs and builds programmable nanophotonic processors; and Renbao Liu of the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, who works on quantum nonlinear spectroscopy.
Lively and fascinating
It was a lively and fascinating discussion and I learned a lot about both neuromorphic and quantum computing. You can watch the webinar free of charge, and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.
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