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The UK Multidisciplinary Centre for Neuromorphic Computing will receive £5.6 million over four years from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), aiming to establish itself as an international hub for collaboration and fundamental research in this groundbreaking field.

With Aston University leading the Centre, the involvement of world-leading researchers from Queen Mary University of London (led by Prof Yang Hao from the Centre for Electronics), Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton, Loughborough, and Strathclyde, demonstrates the breadth of expertise being brought to this ambitious project. The Centre's objective is to tackle the sustainability challenges facing today's digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence systems by replicating the brain's structural and functional principles in novel computing technologies.

A key aspect of the Centre's interdisciplinary approach will be to blend insights from experiments using stem-cell-derived human neurons with advanced computational models, low-power algorithms, and innovative photonic hardware. Researchers aim to gain a deeper, system-level understanding of how the human brain computes at cellular and network scales to inform the design of these next-generation computing systems.

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