Simon Brown

Prof. Simon Brown is a physicist at the University of Canterbury and a Principal Investigator in the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.
His current work focuses on nano-electronic devices with brain-like properties, which have applications as hardware variants of artificial neural networks. Simon holds a number of patents and was founder of NZ’s first nanotechnology company.
Talk: Brain-like Computation with Percolating Networks of Nanoparticles
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