Brian Anderson

A compact neuromorphic system for ultra–energy-efficient, on-device robot localization Locational encoding with neuromorphic systems enables real-time and energy-efficient place recognition in robots.

First post on @bsky.app :). 🤖 Now in #Science #Robotics: 90% energy reduction using our neuromorphic #LENS system! Robot positioning with tiny storage & power needs. For disaster zones, underwater & space. Sustainable #AI inspired by our 20-watt brain! 🧠⚡. Read more: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

On @chrislhayes.bsky.social, I called on @schumer.senate.gov to support @kaine.senate.gov, @sanders.senate.gov, Rep. Massie & my resolution opposing a war in Iran. This is a defining moment for our party where too many blundered in supporting the Iraq war.

Now we need to be clear — no war in Iran.

Btw, team MIT is in the lead - help team World take their rightful spot!

#NeuroAI #neuromorphic #ai #ml
#NeuromorphicRivalryFund #RhymeNeuromorphic #projectphasor

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#NeuromorphicRivalryFund
#RhymeNeuromorphic

YOUR 30 watt noggin flexin’ its might.
Ever an EXEMPLAR in speed-of-light.
Ladders to the moon in hindsight went NOWHERE
It was BRAIN-like chips that landed us there.
#RhymeNeuromorphic

Dally’s FOLLY is now history.
In contrast to Intel and AMD.
STARTUPS too, round the field out
Of HYBRID AIs - without a doubt!
#RhymeNeuromorphic

Team Caltech or MIT?
What a FALSE dichotomy!
Team WORLD was where it’s at,
Progress needed many a hat.
#RhymeNeuromorphic

Sigma delta nets: THE first gem.
Then mixture of experts: A MILLION of ‘em.
Sparse SSMs so DAMN efficient.
That’s how neuromorphs made their first MINT.
#RhymeNeuromorphic

In other words:
Plasticity rules like Oja's let us go beyond studying how synaptic plasticity in the brain can _match_ the performance of backprop.

Now, we can study how synaptic plasticity can _beat_ backprop in challenging, but realistic learning scenarios.

Anyone else interested in academic funding drives that lean into tribalism as a tool for good (and wallet opening)?

What other strategies are people taking to help our academic friends in need?

#projectphasor

One thing I’m trying is the #NeuromorphicRivalryFund which will pit different schools and programs against each other on a specific funding topic, but it would be nice if there was a network of such efforts that could gather more attention together.

How should America heal its own academic wounds more than China will?

Research ultimately benefits the world, but funding sources get to peek into the future a little farther and bias academic freedom in their favor. A slight edge in an exponential growth curve separates the winners and losers.

There’s more Chinese grant money in US academics than many realize and I bet it will be less taboo for professors to accept Chinese funds now, given their dire straits.

In the spirit of friendly rivalry, ...

#neuromorphicrivalryfund #projectphasor | Brian Anderson Who would win here: Caltech or MIT? I'm planning a funding drive that will pit Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Caltech against each other. Help prime the recommendation algorithm: &gt...

Who would donate more in a pledge drive for Neuromorphic AI research? MIT alumni or Caltech alumni?

#NeuromorphicRivalryFund
#projectphasor

Vote for who would win:
www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-...

Context:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

Any good neuroscience/NeuroAI discord servers I should know about? I feel like the neuroscience town square on bsky is a bit of a ghost town

Now do this for NIH and NSF.

Interested in foundation models for #neuroscience? Want to contribute to the development of the next-generation of multi-modal models? Come join us at IVADO in Montreal!

We're hiring a full-time machine learning specialist for this work.

Please share widely!

#NeuroAI 🧠📈 🧪

This isn’t particularly useful but, well, I hear from a lot of people from the science-centered agencies these days (NIH, NOAA, EPA, couple others) and the degree of, I dunno, grimness (?) is really palpable. The whole gov scientific enterprise is just getting ground into dust. It sucks so hard.

My lab is looking for a PhD candidate, in collaboration with ​Bernhard Englitz​'s lab.

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

The NeurIPS Call for Workshops is now live. Proposals are due May 30 AoE, with acceptance notification on July 4 AoE. neurips.cc/Conferences/...


If you plan to submit a proposal for a workshop, please read our detailed guidance in our new blog post: blog.neurips.cc/2025/04/12/g...

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants.

This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Neuropeeps! Is there a list somewhere of the intramural neuroscience researchers @ NIH who have lost their jobs?

If not, could you reply to this thread or hit me up on Signal (tverstynen.64) if you happen to know of specific people?

Please boost if you don’t mind.

We will be hammering out governance starting in April. Check out the homepage for details: www.project-phasor.org

Other pillars of Project Phasor will develop the yardsticks to measure research efficacy, allowing us to effectively direct funds. Reach out if you or your org might want to be a founding member of a fund that will precipitate the efficient AIs of the future.

Academic opportunities: University of Oxford, King’s College London, Homebrew

A BETTER WAY:

Project Phasor is forming a joint research fund for neuromorphic and NeuroAI research. One that is resilient to the whims of government and bias of individual companies.