from the mind-bending field of neuromorphic engineering to a rare opportunity to view two eclipses.

We covered it all in 2023. Now a recap of the fascinating topics that had us listening and learning

through the year. That's next on this episode of Technology Today.

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that subscribe button on your favorite podcast platform. Hello and welcome to technology today.

I'm Lisa Benia. What a year of discovering and learning from memorable, informative guests. This podcast was created in 2018 as a platform to share the world-changing science and research happening at Southwest Research Institute. That's five years of taking you behind the scenes to learn from the

scientists, engineers, and tech leaders imagining, creating, and testing new innovations. Now,

let's recap our inspiring and intriguing topics of the past year. We launched 2023 with the

fascinating emerging field of neuromorphic engineering, the development

of biologically inspired technology that emulates the human brain.

SWRI engineer and neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Harbour, a neuromorphic engineering expert,

explained why the brain is a superior computing model.

Okay, so essentially you are building networks, building technology to emulate some of the functions of the human brain.

So what is superior about our brains? Why do we want to create technology that functions like the human brain?

Certainly. The human brain is far superior to the ordinary computer driven by what's called

Van Neumann architecture processors, which is what we use today. All our computers use Van Neumann

architecture processors today, And our brain is far

superior to those processors. CPUs and GPUs, central processing units and graphical processing units,

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