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A Brain Trust: Uniting a Community Around Building Neuromorphic Capability
SC26 profiles Dr. Catherine Schuman on scaling neuromorphic systems and democratizing hardware access through THOR
The SC26 Supercomputing Conference published an in-depth feature profile highlighting Dr. Catherine (Katie) Schuman, assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and core co-PI of The Neuromorphic Commons (THOR).
As part of the SC26 HPC Unites series, the article—titled "A Brain Trust: Uniting a Community Around Building Neuromorphic Capability"—explores Dr. Schuman's trajectory in brain-inspired computing, from her early work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to leading the TENNLab neuromorphic research group and co-founding national infrastructure initiatives.
The feature dives into the urgent necessity of bridging conventional high-performance computing with biological, event-driven architectures, highlighting how THOR breaks the historical 'chicken-and-egg' dilemma by providing shared, open access to cutting-edge neuromorphic hardware for researchers across academia, national labs, and industry.
Read the complete interview on the SC26 website.
