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In this special episode of the Brains and Machines (https://brainsandmachines.net/) podcast, Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) and Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) talk to four early career researchers: Dr. Kenneth Stewart, a computer scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC; Dr. Laura Kriener, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Bern in Switzerland; Jens Pedersen, a Ph.D. student at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden; and Dr. Fabrizio Ottati, an AI/ML computer architect at NXP Semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany. They discuss learning rules for spiking neural networks, primitives for computations on neuromorphic hardware, and the benefits and drawbacks of neuromorphic engineering. 

In this podcast, we talk focus on security, talking to Infineon Technologies about the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and its implications for the entire supply chain, plus a chat with zeroRISC about the role of open-source silicon security in embedded systems and IoT.

In this episode, Dr. Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Dylan Muir, the head of research at SynSense. They discuss the company’s products, including Speck, Xylo, and Rockpool, some of the design choices that were made to bring these to market, and their recent acquisition of sister company IniVation. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Fortiss research institute in Munich, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

This week’s EE Times Current features three exclusive interviews recently conducted by embedded.com’s editor-in-chief, Nitin Dahad at Embedded World 2024 in Nuremberg. Nitin discussed topics including AI inferencing, Software Ecosystems and Trends in Industrial Automation. 

In this episode, Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) talks with Professor Christian Mayr (https://tu-dresden.de/ing/elektrotechnik/iee/hpsn/die-professur/inhaber?set_language=en) from the Technical University of Dresden, who worked on SpiNNaker with Steve Furber for many years. He is taking that project into the future with SpiNNaker 2, which is mostly built, SpiNNaker 3, which is his next design project, and the startup SpiNNcloud (https://spinncloud.com/). Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) Marie Curie Fellow at The Czech Technical University in Prague, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings (https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/) of Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Elisa Donati of the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zurich talks to Dr. Sunny Bains (https://www.sunnybains.com/) about neuromorphic circuits for prosthetics, drug delivery and more. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliadangelo/) from the Fortiss research institute in Munich, and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings (https://engineering.jhu.edu/faculty/ralph-etienne-cummings/) of Johns Hopkins University.