Well said,
@bludybludblud.
And
@Guzzi62 is doing them injustice, seemingly blind to their major contributions over the years. Anyone who disagrees with me on this, please take the time to read the following:
Take a look at the names of the five inventors of BrainChip’s award-winning Eye-Tracking TENNs model. Sadly, our company will no longer benefit from this creative quintet’s synergistic mix of talents for future TENNs models:
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Sébastian Crouzet and Rudy Pei have since both left our company.
Five weeks ago, Olivier Coenen shared on LinkedIn that he was fired.
It looks as if we are also about to lose Sasskia Brüers-Freyssinet, judging from the changes she made in her LinkedIn profile shortly after Olivier Coenen was let go - all of a sudden, she uploaded a profile photo and changed her status to “Open To Work”.
That would leave Douglas McLelland as the only remaining-with-BrainChip inventor of this SOTA-leading TENNs model.
Keep this in mind when rereading Olivier Coenen’s 6+month-old LinkedIn post that he titled “On the Importance of Talent and Expertise in Innovation”. While all the TENNs patents would highly likely have been assigned to the inventors’ employer, ie. BrainChip, our former Senior Research Scientist warned of the potential consequences when crucial staff are not retained:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_on-the-importance-of-talent-and-expertise-activity-7314016757499711489-gCAg?
“Patents, while valuable, are often meaningless without the continued involvement and expertise of the individuals who created them. True innovation is fundamentally driven by talent, knowledge and experience - not merely by patents alone. Investing in people is equally, if not more, important than investing in technology itself.”
Only time will tell whether or not he will be right with respect to TENNs.
One thing is indisputable, though: there would be no TENNs models today without Olivier Coenen and Rudy Pei.
While our company may possibly attract equally gifted talent to replace those that are no longer employed with us (whatever the reason), no one should blame us shareholders, the co-owners of this company, to be concerned about the exodus of some of those brilliant minds who were instrumental in getting the company to where it is today thanks to their talent, passion, perspiration and perseverance, in an environment where they were able to flourish - at the time.
The recent return of Nikunj Kotecha is wonderful news, but doesn’t alter my opinion that the departure of numerous valuable experts has been an unfortunate loss for our company.
And I find it highly disrespectful of you,
@Guzzi62, to dismiss Rudy Pei and Olivier Coenen as “some uninteresting ex employees”, thereby virtually ignoring their immensely valuable contributions to our company over the years.
And I’m not only referring to TENNs here. Let’s also not forget the USD 1.8 million AFRL award (of which USD 800,000 are payable to our subcontractor Raytheon/RTX). As I mentioned at the time of his sacking, it seems Olivier Coenen was instrumental in securing this SBIR II award and also served as the project’s PI:
I design neural networks from first principles. I blend mathematical physics, information… · Experience: BrainChip · Education: University of California, San Diego · Location: San Diego County · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Olivier Coenen’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of...
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I'd advise everyone to listen to what our CTO Tony Lewis said about his (now ex-) colleagues 18 months ago during his presentation at NICE 2024 (Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference):
From 0:05 min:
"So a lot of the work that I'm gonna talk about is work, where the foundation was really made by two of my co-authors here - Rudy and Olivier. They laid the foundation to [?] this work a couple of years ago, and this is in turn based on other work that's been going on for 40 or 50 years. But we finally figured out a way of putting it all together and doing some kind of interesting things."
From 20:04 min:
"This polynomial space is really intriguing. And it would never have come into my knowledge set if I hadn't collaborated with the two physicists who are on my team."
And please also take a minute to read what Anil Mankar and Kris Carlson commented under another of Olivier Coenen’s LinkedIn posts, which he published shortly before the one I quoted above:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/olivierjmdcoenen_innovation-is-often-viewed-as-driven-solely-activity-7313242078317056004-H8oU?
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“Some uninteresting ex employees”? Seriously?
That’s plain ridiculous!
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