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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Steve Furber is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines including engineering, neuroscience, and computer science, with particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The scientist has contributed significantly to the areas of advanced memory and neural computing, ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices, neural networks and reservoir computing, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, CCD and CMOS imaging sensors, and neural networks and applications.

Among the recent papers by Steve Furber are the following:

  • Embedded Devices for Neuromorphic Time-Series Assessment, 2022, Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium)
  • Neuromorphic computing at scale, 2025, Nature
  • Comparison of Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks on Digital Hardware, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Comparing Loihi with a SpiNNaker 2 prototype on low-latency keyword spotting and adaptive robotic control, 2021, Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
  • Quantization Framework for Fast Spiking Neural Networks, 2022, Frontiers in Neuroscience

Steve Furber frequently co-authors with several researchers, including:

  • Johannes Schemmel
  • Christian Mayr
  • Mihai A. Petrovici
  • Chiara Bartolozzi
  • Bernhard Vogginger

Their work has been published in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • IEEE Access

In recognition of their professional contributions, Steve Furber was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 1999 and became a Member of Academia Europaea in 2008.

Best Publications

  • The SpiNNaker Project

    Steve B. Furber;Francesco Galluppi;Steve Temple;Luis A. Plana

  • Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design: A Systems Perspective

    Jens Spars;Steve Furber

  • Overview of the SpiNNaker System Architecture

    Steve B. Furber;David R. Lester;Luis A. Plana;Jim D. Garside

  • Principles of Asynchronous Circuit Design

    Jens Sparsø;Steve Furber

  • ARM system-on-chip architecture

    Stephen B. Furber

  • Large-Scale Neuromorphic Computing Systems

    Stephen Furber

  • SpiNNaker: A 1-W 18-Core System-on-Chip for Massively-Parallel Neural Network Simulation

    Eustace Painkras;Luis A. Plana;Jim Garside;Steve Temple

  • Neural Systems Engineering

    Steve Furber;Steve Temple

  • Four-phase micropipeline latch control circuits

    S.B. Furber;P. Day

  • SpiNNaker: Mapping neural networks onto a massively-parallel chip multiprocessor

    M.M. Khan;D.R. Lester;L.A. Plana;A. Rast

  • AMULET2e: an asynchronous embedded controller

    S.B. Furber;J.D. Garside;S. Temple;J. Liu

  • ARM System Architecture

    Steve B. Furber

  • Chain: A Delay-Insensitive Chip Area Interconnect

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  • A GALS Infrastructure for a Massively Parallel Multiprocessor

    L.A. Plana;S.B. Furber;S. Temple;M. Khan

  • Introducing SLAMBench, a performance and accuracy benchmarking methodology for SLAM

    Luigi Nardi;Bruno Bodin;M. Zeeshan Zia;John Mawer

  • Performance Comparison of the Digital Neuromorphic Hardware SpiNNaker and the Neural Network Simulation Software NEST for a Full-Scale Cortical Microcircuit Model

    Sacha J. van Albada;Andrew G. Rowley;Johanna Senk;Michael Hopkins

  • A micropipelined ARM

    S. B. Furber;P. Day;J. D. Garside;N. C. Paver

  • Delay-insensitive, point-to-point interconnect using m-of-n codes

    W.J. Bainbridge;W.B. Toms;D.A. Edwards;S.B. Furber

  • AMULET1: a micropipelined ARM

    S.B. Furber;P. Day;J.D. Garside;N.C. Paver

  • An asynchronous on-chip network router with quality-of-service (QoS) support

    F. Feliciian;S.B. Furber

  • The SpiNNaker project

    Steve Furber

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona
Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona University of Seville
Bernabé Linares-Barranco
Bernabé Linares-Barranco University of Seville
Andrew J. Davison
Andrew J. Davison Imperial College London
Markus Diesmann
Markus Diesmann RWTH Aachen University
Ryad Benosman
Ryad Benosman University of Pittsburgh
Chris Eliasmith
Chris Eliasmith University of Waterloo
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph
Matthew A. Lambon Ralph University of Cambridge
Shih-Chii Liu
Shih-Chii Liu University of Zurich
Michael Pfeiffer
Michael Pfeiffer Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
Alex Yakovlev
Alex Yakovlev Newcastle University

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