The objective of this master's thesis is to develop innovative tools that exploit the nonlinear properties of optical micro-ring resonators, integrated in silicon photonics platform, to create a neural network capable of solving complex tasks such as image and voice recognition, time series prediction, using the time delay reservoir computing (RC) technique. These micro-ring resonators are part of a photonic integrated circuit in silicon that can be fabricated in the same CMOS foundry of electronic integrated circuits. Photonic implementations of reservoir computing are promising applications due to their ability to achieve very high bandwidth and to exploit the intrinsic parallelism of optical signals.