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Congratulations to Simeon Bamford and Matthew Szenher who are joint
winners of our 2007 Computer Science Writing Competition, organised in
parallel with the EPSRC Computer Science Writing Competition.
Participants were asked to write 750 words about research that’s part of any EPSRC-funded computer science project.
Giving sight to the blind is a mug's game, by Simeon Bamford
Simeon's
entry was based on his research on designing integrated circuits which
have electrical behaviour like nerve cells - neuromorphic VLSI. His PhD
project is entitled 'Synaptic rewiring in neuromorphic VLSI for
topographic map formation' and is jointly sponsored by EPSRC and
MRC via the Neuroinformatics Doctoral Training Centre, and supervised
by Professor Alan Murray of the Institute of Integrated Micro and Nano Systems.
Better Robotics Through Biology, By Matthew Szenher
Matthew's piece is based on Dr Barbara Webb's contribution to the 'Spatial-temporal Patterns for Action-oriented perception in Roving robots' (SPARK) research project, a collaboration between 6 European institutions and sponsored under the EU Sixth Framework Programme. The
aim of the project is to develop new sensing-perceiving-moving
artefacts inspired by the basic principles of living systems and based
on the concept of "self-organization".
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