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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."

Article on Knowm’s Memristor Announcement from Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design

  • 2015-09-03
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements, Press
  • 0 Comment

Knowm Inc., a start-up pioneering next-generation advanced computing architectures and technology, today announced the availability of artificial neural-network (ANN) chips built using memristors with bi-directional incremental learning capability. “We ... read more

The Gordon-Panthana Dialog

  • 2015-09-06
  • Alex Nugent
  • Knowm and AHaH Computing, Philosophical, Technical
  • 0 Comment

Context Knowm Inc is a very small company in a field of giants, and because of this we face very difficult constraints above and beyond the (already extremely difficult) technical problems we are trying to solve. Our goal is to build an adaptive learning ... read more

Article on Knowm and AHaH Computing from Forbes

  • 2015-09-10
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements, Press
  • 0 Comment

“Modern methods of computing won’t get us to the levels we need.” That simple statement from Alex Nugent, the CEO of computing startup Knowm, serves as a mission statement driving their goal – to develop a new hardware paradigm to boost machine le... read more

A Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing

  • 2015-10-27
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements
  • 0 Comment

The White House has just announced a grand challenge. A solution to this challenge will remake our world. In their words: Create a new type of computer that can proactively interpret and learn from data, solve unfamiliar problems using what it has learned... read more

AHaH Computing in a Nutshell

  • 2015-12-01
  • Alex Nugent
  • Knowm and AHaH Computing, Knowm API, Technical
  • 2 Comment

This is a video series titled: “AHaH Computing in a Nutshell”, which can be found on our Vimeo channel or on our YouTube channel. For more educational resources covering everything about AHaH Computing, memristors and Thermodynamic RAM, please... read more

Facebook Open Sources the Computers behind its Artificial Intelligence

  • 2015-12-10
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements, Press
  • 0 Comment

Taking powerful artificial intelligence software and making it open source, so anyone in the world can use it, seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but both Google and Microsoft have done exactly that in recent months. Now Facebook is going a step ... read more

The Problem with STDP and Neuromorphic Mimicry

  • 2015-12-13
  • Alex Nugent
  • Philosophical, Research
  • 0 Comment

The Biological Complexity Monster For about a decade I have seen the same pattern repeat itself. A circuit designer builds a Spike-Timing-Dependant-Plasticty (STDP) neuron. They justify their efforts because STDP is popular and by saying “that is wh... read more

Knowm Inc. New Memristors and Data Press Release

  • 2016-01-20
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements, Press
  • 0 Comment

Knowm Inc., a start-up pioneering next-generation advanced computing architectures and technology, today announced the availability of two new variations of the Knowm memristor. The company also announced raw device data available for purchase that will g... read more

Article on Knowm’s Memristor Announcement from EEJournal

  • 2016-03-01
  • Alex Nugent
  • Announcements, Press
  • 0 Comment

It’s been introduced as nothing less than a new way of computing certain kinds of problems. It’s another approach to computing more the way the brain does it than the way Mr. Von Neumann does it. Which is to say, using orders of magnitude less power t... read more

How to Fix KiCAD 4.0 Cvpcb Library Error on a Mac

  • 2016-05-05
  • Alex Nugent
  • Technical
  • 1 Comment

Note: Click here for Version 4–>5 upgrade Fix for Mac Problem After upgrading KiCAD and using CVPCB to associate schematic parts with footprints, you are treated to a massive error dialog that starts like this: [crayon-633827973d8e5031789279/] (The ... read more

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