Asynch Pioneer Looks to Explore the Brain

by Ron Wilson EE Times, 11 Apr 2005 Steve Furber was a designer of the BBC Micro, the PC that introduced a generation of Britain's students to computing. He was the hardware architect of the first ARM processor and went on to direct the University of Manchester's Amulet program, which produced the first asynchronous implementation of a commercial microprocessor. Today Furber continues to explore asynchronous design at Manchester, where he is investigating how the human brain might be analyzed as a large asynchronous system. Read the article