Alan Murray was born in 1953 in Edinburgh, where he also went to school. In 1975 he received a BSc Hons in Physics at the University of Edinburgh, and a Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1978. He worked for 3 years as a Research Physicist (2 in Canada), and for 3 years as an Integrated Circuit Design Engineer. In 1984 he was appointed a lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh University, became a Reader in 1991 and Professor of Neural Electronics in 1994. He is interested in all aspects of neural computation - and both hardware issues and applications have been his primary research interest since 1985. In 1986, he developed the "pulse stream" method for neural integration, which was implemented and extended in close collaboration with Lionel Tarassenko, from Oxford University's Department of Engineering Science. His interests have since widened to include all aspects of neural computation, particularly hardware-compatible learning schemes, probabilistic neural computation and neural forms that utilise the temporal- and noisy characteristics of analogue VLSI - as well as applications of hardware neural networks. He is also developing a new interest in the interface between silicon and neurobiology, along with Mike Hunter from the University's Biomedical Sciences Division and colleagues in Glasgow University. Alan Murray has over 180 publications, including an undergraduate textbook and research texts on neural VLSI, applications of neural networks and noise in neural training (with Peter Edwards). He is a Fellow of IEE, Senior Member of IEEE, a member of INNS and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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