Kwabena Boahen
Neuromorphic engineer building circuits that compute like neurons
At a glance
- Inventor
- Kwabena Boahen
- Life
- contemporary; born in Accra
- Birthplace
- Accra, Ghana
- Country
- Ghana / United States
- Region
- Africa
- Era
- 2000–Present
- Fields
- Technology & Computing, Science & Engineering
- Evidence
- Documented
- Records
- 1 in this archive
What they did
Boahen's laboratory designs silicon that imitates the way neurons signal — analogue, sparse and event-driven — rather than the way conventional processors do, producing systems that model large neural populations at a fraction of the power.
Historical context
He has described being given a computer as a teenager in Accra and finding its rigid architecture disappointing compared with the brain.
The legacy
The Neurogrid system and its successors are reference platforms for neuromorphic computing, a field now pursued by major chip manufacturers.
The evidence
Neurogrid: A Mixed-Analog-Digital Multichip System for Large-Scale Neural Simulations
ScholarshipBrains in Silicon laboratory records
Institutional record
Documentation strength
- 2
- Sources
- 0
- Primary
- 2
- Publishers
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