<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
h1
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:24.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:bold;}
h2
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2 Char";
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
font-weight:bold;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0cm;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.Heading1Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 1 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 1";
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-language:SV;
font-weight:bold;}
span.Heading2Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 2 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 2";
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-language:SV;
font-weight:bold;}
..MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt 70.85pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SV link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><h1 style='background:white'><span lang=EN>Workshop on Brain-Like Computing, February 5-6 2014<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>The exciting prospects of developing brain-like information processing is one of the Deans Forum focus areas.<br>As a means to encourage progress in this research area a Workshop is arranged February 5th-6th 2014 on KTH campus in Stockholm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>The human brain excels over contemporary computers and robots in processing real-time unstructured information and uncertain data as well as in controlling a complex mechanical platform with multiple degrees of freedom like the human body. Intense experimental research complemented by computational and informatics efforts are gradually increasing our understanding of underlying processes and mechanisms in small animal and mammalian brains and are beginning to shed light on the human brain. We are now approaching the point when our knowledge will enable successful demonstrations of some of the underlying principles in software and hardware, i.e. brain-like computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt'>This workshop assembles experts, from the partners and also other leading names in the field, to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in theoretical, software, and hardware aspects of brain-like computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='background:white'><span lang=EN>List of speakers<o:p></o:p></span></h2><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=404 style='width:303.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Speaker</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Affiliation</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Giacomo Indiveri</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>ETH Zürich</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Abigail Morrison</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Forschungszentrum Jülich</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mark Ritter</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>IBM Watson Research Center</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Guillermo Cecchi</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>IBM Watson Research Center</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Anders Lansner</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>KTH Royal Institute of Technology</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ahmed Hemani</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>KTH Royal Institute of Technology</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Steve Furber</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University of Manchester</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Kazuyuki Aihara</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>University of Tokyo</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Karlheinz Meier</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Heidelberg University</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.75pt'><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Andreas Schierwagen</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:15.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Leipzig University</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For signing up to the Workshop please use the registration form found at <u><a href="http://bit.ly/1dkuBgR"><span style='font-weight:normal'>http://bit.ly/1dkuBgR</span></a><o:p></o:p></u></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>You need to sign up before January 28<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Web page: <a href="http://www.kth.se/en/om/internationellt/university-networks/deans-forum/workshop-on-brain-like-computing-1.442038">http://www.kth.se/en/om/internationellt/university-networks/deans-forum/workshop-on-brain-like-computing-1.442038</a> </span></strong><b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>******************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>Anders Lansner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>Professor in Computer Science, Computational biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>School of Computer Science and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:SV'>Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:SV'><a href="mailto:ala@kth.se"><span style='color:blue'>ala@kth.se</span></a>, +46-70-2166122<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
<br /><br />
<hr style='border:none; color:#909090; background-color:#B0B0B0; height: 1px; width: 99%;' />
<table style='border-collapse:collapse;border:none;'>
<tr>
<td style='border:none;padding:0px 15px 0px 8px'>
<a href="http://www.avast.com/">
<img border=0 src="http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png" />
</a>
</td>
<td>
<p style='color:#3d4d5a; font-family:"Calibri","Verdana","Arial","Helvetica"; font-size:12pt;'>
Detta epostmeddelande innehåller inget virus eller annan skadlig kod för <a href="http://www.avast.com/">avast! Antivirus</a> är aktivt.
</p>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br />
</body></html>