<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Please consider joining our track at SAC2016.</div><div>Apologies for cross posting.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards.</div><div><div><br></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div><b><span lang="EN-US">ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2016</span></b></div><div><span lang="EN-US">The 31<sup>st</sup> Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing </span></div><div><span lang="EN-US">in Pisa, Italy, April 3 – 8, 2016.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">(webpage : </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/">http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US">)</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Deep Learning and Continuous-Time Computing</b></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US">(webpage : </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://event.cwi.nl/sac2016/">http://event.cwi.nl/sac2016/</a></span><span lang="EN-US">)</span></span></span></span></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">SAC 2016:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"> For the past thirsty years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. SAC 2016 is sponsored by the <b>ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)</b>, and will be hosted by the <b>University of Pisa</b> and <b>Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna University</b>, Italy.</span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US"><b>Artificial Intelligence (AI)</b> is one of the objectives of Machine Learning: how to create computers capable of intelligent behavior. <b>Deep Learning </b>in artificial neural networks represents a remarkable step toward this direction. Current state-of-the-art AI in the form of deep neural networks has recently demonstrated breakthrough performance in various AI-cognitive tasks, from image and speech recognition to natural language generation and playing ATARI games. However, in real-world applications like video processing or robot control, a deep neural network has then to be updated continuously, causing a high computational load. Specialized <b>acceleration hardware</b> is being developed for deep learning in continuous-time environments. In addition, or alternatively, <b>Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) </b>represent another possible solution for efficient continuous-time representation and computing in deep neural networks. This Track aims to consolidate the current state-of-the-art in deep learning, continuous-time computing, spiking neural networks and related acceleration hardware tools (such as <b>GPUs</b>, <b>SpiNNaker</b> or <b>Neuromorphic Silicon systems</b>) showing recent and future progresses of this rising and growing research field.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 13px;"><br></span></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div><br></div><div><b>Topics of interests:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li><b>Deep learning</b></li><li><b>Continuous-time learning</b></li><li><b>Spiking Neural Networks</b></li><li><b>Asynchronous computation</b></li><li><b>Large scale parallel simulations and computing</b></li><li><b>Neuromorphic computing</b></li></ul><div><b><br></b></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Important Dates are published on the </b><a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2016/">Conference </a><b>or </b><a href="http://event.cwi.nl/sac2016/">Track </a><b>webpages.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Track Program Committee:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Sander Bohte, CWI Amsterdam (NL) (<b>Track Chair</b> — <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria;">email to <a href="mailto:s.m.bohte@cwi.nl">s.m.bohte@cwi.nl</a></span> )</li><li>Davide Zambrano, CWI Amsterdam (NL) (<b>Track Chair</b> — <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria;">email to <a href="mailto:d.zambrano@cwi.nl">d.zambrano@cwi.nl</a></span> )</li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Thomas Nowotny,<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>University of Sussex (UK)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Steven Furber, University of Manchester (UK)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Karl Tuyls, University of Liverpool (UK)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Shih-Chii Liu, University of Zurich/ETH Zurich (CH)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Robert Babuska, Delft University of Technology (NL)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Andre Gruning, University of Surrey (UK)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Max Welling, University of Amsterdam (NL)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Narayan Srinavasa, HRL Laboratories LLC (USA)</div></li><li><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; display: inline !important;">Eleni Vasilaki, University of Sheffield (UK)</div></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Important notice</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">: <i>Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper, poster, or SRC abstract in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for including the work in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers, posters, and SRC abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div>—————————————————————————————————————</div><div></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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