The Neurokernel Project was begun in July 2011 by Aurel A. Lazar at Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering after extensive discussions held during a research seminar on Massively Parallel Neural Computation. The Neurokernel Development Team currently comprises the following Bionet Group researchers:
Past contributors who have participated in the project include
The Neurokernel logo is based upon the logo of the FlyJunkies web site, used with permission for non-profit use by the site maintainers Gavin Davis and Fraser Perry.