Advances in Neuromorphic Memristor Science and Applications [Hardcover]

Physical implementation of the memristor at industrial scale sparked the interest from various disciplines, ranging from physics, nanotechnology, electrical engineering, neuroscience, to intelligent robotics. As any promising new technology, it has raised hopes and questions; it is an extremely challenging task to live up to the high expectations and to devise revolutionary and feasible future applications for memristive devices. The possibility of gathering prominent scientists in the heart of the Silicon Valley given by the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks held in San Jose, CA, has offered us the unique opportunity of organizing a series of special events on the present status and future perspectives in neuromorphic memristor science. This book presents a selection of the remarkable contributions given by the leaders of the field and it may serve as inspiration and future reference to all researchers that want to explore the extraordinary possibilities given by this revolutionary concept.

Foreword

Part I? Fundamental Concepts of Memristors and Neuromorphic Systems??

Prolog  Memristor Minds; Greg Snider

1. Are Memristors the Future of AI?  A Review of Recent Progress and Future Perspectives; Robert Kozma, Robinson E. Pino, and Giovanni E. Pazienza??
2. Biologically-Inspired Electronics with Memory Circuit Elements; Massimiliano Di Ventra and Yuriy Pershin?
3. Persuading Computers to Act More Like Brains; Heather Ames, Massimiliano Versace, Anatoli Gorchetchnikov, Benjamin Chandler, Gennady Livitz, Jasmin L?veill?, Ennio Mingolla, Dick Carter, Hisham Abdalla, and Greg Snider?
4. Memristors for More Than Just Mel£.