Fixing AI’s Bottlenecks: Memory, Scale, and Sparsity

About this episode

This episode features a panel discussion on neuromorphic engineering and physical computing.

This latest episode of Brains and Machines features a panel discussion on neuromorphic engineering and physical computing held at the Atoms to Bits: The AlphaBet of Intelligence v2.0 conference at the University of Manchester, held in February 2026. The panelists were Dr. Damien Querlioz , Dr. Julian Büchel , Professor Tamalika Banerjee , Dr. Maxence Ernoult , and Professor Steve Furber , and the session was chaired by Dr. Sunny Bains of University College London. Discussion follows with Dr. Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Sunny Bains

Guests: Dr. Damien Querlioz, Dr. Julian Büchel, Professor Tamalika Banerjee, Dr. Maxence Ernoult, Professor Steve Furber

Topics covered

• neuromorphic engineering
• physical computing
• AI bottlenecks
• memory
• scale
• sparsity

Keywords

• AI
• neuromorphic engineering
• physical computing
• memory
• scale
• sparsity
• panel discussion
• conference

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University College London, Czech Technical University, Johns Hopkins University

Places: University of Manchester

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