UTRF is celebrating Dr. Catherine Schuman on two incredible achievements—securing a $4M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance neuromorphic computing and co-authoring a landmark article in Nature on the future of this transformative technology. The TENNLab Neuromorphic Computing Research Group at the University of Tennessee is leading groundbreaking research in brain-inspired computing, (read more)
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Knoxville startup ThermaMatrix developing cost-effective, non-destructive solutions for manufacturers
Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ThermaMatrix, has known he wanted to engineer since high school. His old truck had broken down, and instead of taking it to the auto repair shop and spending thousands of dollars he did not have as a teenager, he decided to buy the parts and fix the (read more)
Inventor Spotlight: Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller
Perseverance, passion, and partnership are three words to describe the work of Lawrence Pfeffer and Duane Miller, researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who have spent the last decade and a half studying treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive, lethal form of brain cancer. We had gotten close to being funded, but (read more)