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
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
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
Looking Into Nature The electron transport chain in photosystem II is one of the most important biochemical reaction pathways for life on this planet [1]. It starts with the absorption of a photon of light from the sun and through a sequential chain of se... 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
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
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
I do not like disrupting others. I do not like to be disrupted. If I have no choice but to disrupt somebody, I ask to be excused before I do it and I apologize after I am finished. When I think of somebody who actually likes to disrupt others, I picture a... read more
Is there something else out there? At a fundamental level, everything in the Universe originates from natural processes of self-organization. At the lowest levels we see simple and highly deterministic processes or ‘rules’ that guide the time-... read more