Alex Nugent is the CEO of Knowm Inc. He is an inventor and entrepreneur at the crossroads of natural self-organization, neuromemristive electronics and machine learning. He is an optimist and a problem solver and believes that Nature is the highest form of technology. He lives by the motto that "the best way to predict the future is to invent it."
It is a curious fact that there is no general agreement on what intelligence actually is. Most of us recognize that humans appear to possess a large amount of it, as well as other animals — both as individuals and as groups or swarms. Plants have be... read more
Communication is not Free Communication is not free. It takes energy to move data around. In integrated circuits we can move data with electrons on metal wires or, more recently, with photons in waveguides. Photons are a great choice for long-distance com... read more
Introduction to AHaH Computing Alex Nugent’s guest lecture for the Brain Inspired Computing class of Dr. Dhireesha Kudithipudi at Rochester Institute of Technology, April 9th 2015. Alex introduces AHaH Computing, providing motivation for its foundat... read more
I recently made the pilgrimage to our local movie theater to view the latest ‘rise of the machines’ artificial intelligence flick. I always make a point of watching these movies (AI, Terminator, iRobot, Transcendence, etc), as I am interested ... read more
Knowm Collaborates with Kris Campbell at BSU My journey with Knowm and AHaH Computing started over a decade ago as a Physics major taking a break from studying for a quantum mechanics test. I got up and wandered the college library, pacing back and forth ... read more
Note to Readers: Four years later and there are now suspicions that metal-oxide memristors may have shelf-life issues. Read all about it here. HP’s Memristor Problem Today I read something that did not surprise me. HP has said that their memristor t... read more
Primary and Secondary Performance Metrics If you are building a classifier then you must measure it’s classification performance. If you are building a robot to pick up an object, you have to measure its ability to pick up objects. Any AI technology... read more
Introduction Knowm partner Hillary Riggs and I had the great pleasure of attending the Navy Karles Invitational Conference on Neuroelectronics, hosted by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC from August 18-19, 2015. It was a small and short even... read more
The Moment of Change for Neuromorphic Computing Systems Today marks the end of a grueling but exciting six weeks since we launched Knowm Inc. I have spoken with dozens of analysts and reporters and criss-crossed the country. We introduced Knowm Inc. and o... read more
Alex Nugent is working on making computers more human. Specifically, he and his team at Knowm Inc. have developed the world’s first adaptive neuromemristive processor along with Dr. Kris Campbell, a researcher at Boise State University and an expert on ... read more