Hi macro,
unfortunately the content these kind of answer engines provide always needs to be taken with a grain of salt. The answer Perplexity AI gave you proves my point:
I would dismiss Cambridge Consultants, since they do not have a London office!
As their name suggests, they are based in Cambridge (just like Arm, by the way), which is almost 100 km north of London and thus certainly not a Central London location, as stated in the job ad!
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But apart from getting the geography wrong, there is something else in that chatbot’s answer that irritates me: While it is highly commendable that Cambridge Consultants’ head of semiconductor capability, Dr. Aidong Xu, has recognised the potential and benefits of neuromorphic computing, especially regarding energy savings, I would expect someone described (by Perplexity AI) as being “involved in neuromorphic computing” to be someone working in a neuromorphic lab on either hardware or software, and possibly publishing scientific papers on the topic, rather than someone spruiking the merits of neuromorphic computing without any hands-on experience (at least that’s my impression of Dr. Xu).
But let’s move on:
Perplexity AI made another mistake here, namely listing Dr. Oscar Lee as an Imperial College Researcher. He is, however, from UCL instead!
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Perplexingly, Perplexity AI completely omitted King’s College London in its list of academic institutions, although is very well-known for the neuromorphic research conducted by Prof. Osvaldo Simeone and Prof. Bipin Rajendran that aims to revolutionise wireless communications.
Professor of Information Engineering
www.kcl.ac.uk
Professor of Intelligent Computing Systems
www.kcl.ac.uk
They recently co-authored a paper with researchers from Luxembourg, the UK and France (“Performance Evaluation of Neuromorphic Hardware for Onboard Satellite Communication Applications”), in which they had implemented SNNs on Loihi 2 - it was briefly touched on here on TSE the other day:
https://thestockexchange.com.au/threads/brn-discussion-ongoing.1/post-409255
An interesting collaboration between these three partner universities - King's, Imperial and UCL - is the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), “a UK-based multidisciplinary enterprise operating at the forefront of science and technology. Our purpose is to solve global problems in information processing, healthcare, energy and the environment through the application of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Founded in 2003, the LCN began as a joint venture between University College London and Imperial College London, based at the Bloomsbury and South Kensington sites; from 2018 King's College London joined the collaboration from its base on The Strand.”
By the way, Perplexity AI also failed to mention Brunel University London as yet another institution being involved in neuromorphic research in the British capital.
Really? Could you please provide us with some evidence to back up your claim?
The two researchers from Imperial College listed above are from the Department of Physics, where they do research on materials for neuromorphic computing and magnetism, but they are not working with neuromorphic chips such as Loihi. So who at Imperial College is, then?
A form of brain-inspired computing that exploits the intrinsic physical properties of a material to reduce energy use is now closer to reality.
www.imperial.ac.uk
By the way, I’d assume our mystery employer is a small start-up in stealth mode with specific products in mind, not a university.
..........BrainChip , of all things .
