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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition
Engineering Workshop</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">2015 Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering
Workshop</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Telluride, Colorado, June 28th - July 18th,
2015</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
Deadline is April 2nd, 2015</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">NEUROMORPHIC
COGNITION ENGINEERING WORKSHOP</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.ine-web.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">www.ine-web.org</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Sunday
June 28th - Saturday July 18th, 2015, Telluride, Colorado</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://ine-web.org/workshops/workshops-overview/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">ine-web.org/workshops/workshops-overview/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> and the workshop wiki is
at <a href="https://neuromorphs.net/" target="_blank">https://neuromorphs.net/</a></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">GOALS:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Neuromorphic engineers design and fabricate artificial neural
systems whose organizing principles are based on those of biological nervous
systems. Over the past 18 years, this research community has focused on the
understanding of low-level sensory processing and systems infrastructure;
efforts are now expanding to apply this knowledge and infrastructure to
addressing higher-level problems in perception, cognition, and learning. In
this 3-week intensive workshop and through the Institute for Neuromorphic
Engineering (INE), the mission is to promote interaction between senior and
junior researchers; to educate new members of the community; to introduce new
enabling fields and applications to the community; to promote on-going
collaborative activities emerging from the Workshop, and to promote a
self-sustaining research field.</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">FORMAT:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The three week summer workshop will include background lectures on
systems and cognitive neuroscience (in particular sensory processing, learning
and memory, motor systems and attention), practical tutorials on emerging
hardware design, mobile robots, hands-on projects, and special interest groups.
Participants are required to take part and possibly complete at least one of
the projects proposed. They are furthermore encouraged to become involved in as
many of the other activities proposed as interest and time allow. There will be
two lectures in the morning that cover issues that are important to the
community in general. Because of the diverse range of backgrounds among the
participants, some of these lectures will be tutorials, rather than detailed
reports of current research. These lectures will be given by invited speakers.
Projects and interest groups meet in the late afternoons, and after dinner. In
the early afternoon there will be tutorials on a wide spectrum of topics,
including analog VLSI, mobile robotics, vision and auditory systems,
central-pattern-generators, selective attention mechanisms, cognitive systems,
etc.</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">2015 TOPIC AREAS:</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Human Auditory Cognition:
Communicating with EEG and Virtual Reality Links (The Matrix)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">: Shihab
Shamma (UM-College Park), Malcolm Slaney (Microsoft), Edward Lalor (Trinity
College, Dublin), and Alain de Cheveigne (UPMC, France)</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Manipulation Actions: Movements,
Forces and Affordances: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Cornelia Fermüller (UMCP), Michael Pfeiffer
(INI-UZH), Ryad Benosman (UPMC, Paris), and Andreas Andreou (JHU)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Neuromorphic Natural Language
Processing:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> John Harris (UFL, Gainesville) and Chris Huyck (Middlesex
University)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Spike-Based Cognitive Computing:
Seeing, Hearing, and Thinking with Spikes: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Arindam Basu (NTU,
Singapore) and John Arthur (IBM Research Almaden)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Computational Neuroscience
(invitational mini-workshop)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> : Terry Sejnowski (Salk
Institute)</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">LOCATION
AND ARRANGEMENTS:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The summer school will take place in the small town of Telluride,
9000 feet high in southwest Colorado, about 6 hours drive away from Denver (350
miles). Great Lakes Aviation and America West Express airlines provide daily
flights directly into Telluride. All facilities within the beautifully
renovated public school building are fully accessible to participants with
disabilities. Participants will be housed in ski condominiums, within walking
distance of the school. Participants are expected to share condominiums.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The workshop is intended to be very informal and hands-on.
Participants are not required to have had previous experience in analog VLSI
circuit design, computational or machine vision, systems level neurophysiology
or modeling the brain at the systems level. However, we strongly encourage
active researchers with relevant backgrounds from academia, industry and
national laboratories to apply, in particular if they are prepared to work on
specific projects, talk about their own work or bring demonstrations to
Telluride (e.g. robots, chips, software). Wireless internet access will be
provided. Technical staff present throughout the workshops will assist with
software and hardware issues. We will have a network of PCs running LINUX and
Microsoft Windows for the workshop projects. We encourage participants to bring
along their personal laptop.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">No cars are required. Given the small size of the town, we
recommend that you do not rent a car. Bring hiking boots, warm clothes, rain
gear, and a backpack, since Telluride is surrounded by beautiful mountains.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Unless otherwise arranged with one of the organizers, we expect
participants to stay for the entire duration of this three week workshop.</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">FINANCIAL
ARRANGEMENTS:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Notification of acceptances will be mailed out around the April
15th, 2015. The Workshop covers all your accommodations and facilities costs
for the 3 weeks duration. You are responsible for your own travel to the
Workshop, however, sponsored fellowships will be available as described below
to further subsidize your cost.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Registration Fees: For expenses not covered by federal funds, a
Workshop registration fee is required. The fee is TBD per participant for the
3-week Workshop. This is expected from all participants at the time of
acceptance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Accommodations: The cost of a shared condominium, typically a
bedroom in a shared condo for senior participants or a shared room for
students, will be covered for all academic participants. Upgrades to a private
rooms or condos will cost extra. Participants from National Laboratories and
Industry are expected to pay for these condominiums.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Fellowships: This year we will offer one Fellowship program to
subsidize your costs:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The EU-CSNII Fellowship (</span><a href="http://csnetwork.eu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">http://csnetwork.eu/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">) which
is funded by the 7th Research Framework Program FP7-ICT-CSNII-601167. The top 8
EU applicants will be reimbursed for their registration fees ($1250),
subsistence/travel subsidy (up to Euro 2000) and accommodations cost ($1500).
The registration and accommodation costs will go directly to the INE (the INE
will reimburse them).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">We invite applications for a three-week summer workshop that will
be held in Telluride, Colorado. Sunday June 28th - Saturday July 18th, 2015.
The application deadline is Wednesday, April 2nd and application instructions
are described at the bottom of this document.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'MS Gothic';color:black">
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The 2015 Workshop and Summer School on Neuromorphic Engineering is
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Neuromorphic
Engineering, DARPA, Office of Naval Research, The EU-Collaborative Convergent
Science Network (CNS-II), University of Maryland - College Park, Institute for
Neuroinformatics – University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, University of Western
Sydney and the Salk Institute.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Directors:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Cornelia Fermuller, University of Maryland, College Park</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, UNI/ETH Zurich,
Switzerland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Timothy Horiuchi, University of Maryland, College Park</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Workshop Advisory Board:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Andre van Schaik, University Western Sydney, Australia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Avis Cohen, University of Maryland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Boston University</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Uni/Eth Zurich,
Switzerland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Jonathan Tapson, University Western Sydney, Australia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Malcolm Slaney, Microsoft Research</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Uni/Eth Zurich,
Switzerland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Tobi Delbruck, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Uni/Eth Zurich,
Switzerland</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Previous year workshop can be found at:</span><a href="http://ine-web.org/workshops/workshops-overview/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"> participant’s
registration fees after receipt from CSNII), while the subsistence/travel reimbursement
will be provided directly to the participants by the CSNII at the University of
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.</span></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">HOW TO
APPLY:</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Applicants should be at the level
of graduate students or above (i.e. postdoctoral fellows, faculty, research and
engineering staff and the equivalent positions in industry and national
laboratories). We actively encourage women and minority candidates to apply.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Anyone interested in proposing or
discussing specific projects should contact the appropriate topic leaders directly.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">The application website is (after February 23rd, 2015):</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2015/apply-info" target="_blank">ine-web.org/telluride-conference-2015/apply-info</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Application information needed:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Contact email address.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">First name, Last name, Affiliation, valid e-mail address.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Curriculum Vitae (a short version, please).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">One page summary of background and interests relevant to the
workshop, including possible ideas for workshop projects. Please indicate which
topic areas you would most likely join.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Two letters of recommendation (uploaded directly by references).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">Applicants will be notified by e-mail.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">23rd<sup> </sup>February, 2015 - Applications accepted on website</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">2nd April, 2015 - Applications Due</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:black">15th April, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance</span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Courier New'"> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Ralph Etienne-Cummings, PhD, FIEEE<div>Professor and Chairman</div><div>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</div><div>Computational Sensor Motor Systems Lab</div><div>Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics</div><div>The Johns Hopkins University</div><div>Baltimore, MD</div><div><img src="cid:image001.png@01CFC064.B58B46A0" alt="cid:image001.png@01CFC064.B58B46A0"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Ralph Etienne-Cummings, PhD, FIEEE<div>Professor and Chairman</div><div>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</div><div>Computational Sensor Motor Systems Lab</div><div>Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics</div><div>The Johns Hopkins University</div><div>Baltimore, MD</div><div><img src="cid:image001.png@01CFC064.B58B46A0" alt="cid:image001.png@01CFC064.B58B46A0"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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