Data Science Insights – Building Brains: Learning from data

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Channel: Imperial College London · 2015 · Science & Technology

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In this final Data Science Insights event hosted by Imperial College's Data Science Institute in partnership with Thomson Reuters, Professor Steve Furber CBE from the University of Manchester, talked about how his new hardware architecture, SpiNNaker, is pioneering neural network research and then shared insights into how progress in his field will develop computer-based intelligence. Axel Threlfall, editor-at-large at Reuters, chaired this event. This event was held at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on June 17 2015.

To find out more about Data Science Insights, visit www.imperial.ac.uk/data-science/events/data-science-insights

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