<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span class=""><h3>Call for Topic Area Proposals</h3><h3>2016 Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop</h3></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><i>Telluride, Colorado, June 26 –July 16, 2016</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><i><br></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><font color="#ff0000">DEADLINE: January 8th, 2016</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">We are now accepting proposals for Topic Areas in the 2016 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop. We support topics and projects in neuromorphic cognition, particularly those that involve solving challenging ‘everyday’ tasks that incorporate domain-specific knowledge, exploration, prediction, and problem solving. In particular, we are interested in projects that hold promise for addressing Grand Challenge types of problems that do not have strong solutions of any form, neuromorphic or not. These Challenge problems should feature long-duration sensorimotor problems that involve autonomous cognitive decision making. Examples might include tasks such as learning a new language, navigating through an unknown environment to locate an object or reach a desired location, visual and auditory understanding of human actions, adaptively manipulating unknown or complex objects in the service of a task, playing a game requiring inference of hidden information or long-term planning and learning, etc. Proposals related to hardware technologies that aim to bring these capabilities to reality are also encouraged. Topic proposals that aim to solve a particular problem using the multidisciplinary experience of participants will be favored over topics that simply gather a large number of people working within a discipline, or using a single technology, or approach.</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Topic areas for this summer's <a href="http://ine-web.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)">Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop</span></a> will be chosen from proposals submitted to the organizers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Topic areas can span a large field; we are looking for leadership in planning activities and inviting good people in a field.</b> Although past topic areas have tended to be very broad and discipline-oriented (e.g., cognition, audition, vision, robotics, neural interfacing, neuromorphic VLSI, etc.), application-oriented topic areas (e.g., sensor fusion, game-playing robot, object recognition, sound localization, human robot interaction, etc.) are especially desirable.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Topic area leaders will receive housing for themselves and their invitees, and limited travel funds.</b> Topic area leaders will help to define the field of neuromorphic cognition engineering through the projects they pursue and the people they invite. They shape their topic by inviting speakers and project leaders (the <b>invitees</b>) and by initiating topic area project discussions prior to the workshop.</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Teams of two organizers are required. One of the organizers should be an attendee of a previous Telluride Workshop (in any capacity) and has stayed at the Workshop for at least one week.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Pre-workshop topic area choices and study assignments.</b></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Before the workshop begins, each topic area will be required to prepare and distribute study materials that constitute: 1) an introductory presentation (e.g., pptx, video, review paper) of the fundamental knowledge associated with the topic area that <i>everyone at the workshop</i> should be exposed to, and 2) a few critical papers that the participants in the topic area should read before the workshop. The topic area should 3) begin a serious group discussion of the projects (e.g., via Facebook, Skype, email, etc). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> <b>The maximum 2-page proposals should include:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">1. Title of topic area.</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">2. Names of the two topic leaders, their affiliations, and contact information (email</p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> addresses).</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">3. A paragraph explaining the focus and goals of the topic area.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">4. A list of possible specific topic area projects.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">5. A list of example invitees (up to six names and institutions). No commitments necessary.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">6. Any other material that fits within the two-page limit that will help us make a smart</p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> choice.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Send your topic area proposal</b> in pdf or text format to <a href="mailto:organizers12@neuromorphs.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">organizers13@neuromorphs.net</span></a> with subject line containing "topic area proposal".</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Proposals must be received by <span style="color:windowtext">January 8, 2016</span></b>; proposals received after the deadline may still be considered if space is available.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>We expect to accept 4-5 topic areas</b>, each with 5 invitees<b>.</b> If your proposal for the topic area is not accepted, we will work with you to see if there is a natural way to include your ideas (and you) into the accepted topic areas. We hope to have significant turn-over each year in the topic areas and leaders to ensure fresh new ideas and participants.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">See the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (<a href="http://www.ine-web.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)">www.ine-web.org</span></a>) for background information on the workshop and <a href="https://neuromorphs.net/ws2009/wiki/PastWorkshops" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)">neuromorphs.net</span></a> for past workshop wikis.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">We look forward to your topic proposals!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Deadline: <span style="color:black">January 8, 2016</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>The Workshop Directors:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><a href="http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~fer/" target="_blank">Cornelia Fermüller</a> (University of Maryland), <a href="http://etienne.ece.jhu.edu/people/ralph/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)">Ralph Etienne-Cummings</span></a> (Johns Hopkins Univ.) <a href="https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~shih/" target="_blank">Shih-Chii Liu</a> (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich), <a href="https://www.isr.umd.edu/faculty/horiuchi" target="_blank">Timmer Horiuchi</a> (University of Maryland), <a href="http://physiological-sciences.arizona.edu/katalin-gothard" target="_blank">Katalin Gotthard</a> (University of Arizona), <a href="https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~pfeiffer/index.html" target="_blank">Michael Pfeiffer</a> (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich), <a href="mailto:fbarranco@ugr.es" target="_blank">Francisco Barranco</a> (University of Granada)</p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b>Former 2007-2013 Workshop Director:</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><a href="https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~tobi/" target="_blank">Tobi Delbruck</a> (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)</p></span><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- </p></font></div><div>Ralph Etienne-Cummings, PhD, FIEEE</div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><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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