A recent discovery of growth methods that allow for growing transition metal oxides or TMOs directly on Si, created revolutionary opportunities in silicon photonics, a hybrid technology combining semiconductor logic with optical information technologies. I will discuss the recent progress in development and integration of nonlinear optical materials that will enable combining semiconductor logic with fast broadband optical. This combination advances the nonlinear optical materials for defense applications and telecom industries, where the benefits of reliability, smaller size and weight, and lower cost of ownership are compelling. In particular, neurocomputing may benefit from this technology. A typical neurocomputer is a network of simple artificial neurons that process information in parallel. The salient features of this paradigm, its massive connectivity and parallelism, are most naturally realized in optics, where analog inner products and simple point nonlinearities are precisely the computations needed. Optics and neural networks present an ideal match of requirements and capabilities. I will briefly discuss possible opportunities in neuromorphic computing created by integration of TMOs with silicon.