<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (LAST REMINDER)</span>: </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Second Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering.</span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The <b class="">Misha Mahowald Prize</b> recognizes outstanding research in neuromorphic engineering in a broad sense: neurally-inspired hardware, but also neuromorphic software, algorithms, and architectures can compete for the award. The award is named for Misha Mahowald, a creative and influential pioneer, who passed away before she could see the field flourishing. She created some of the first neuromorphic circuits including the silicon retina and the silicon neuron.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Prize is awarded by a jury of international experts and carries a cash prize of USD 3000. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="">The inaugural prize was awarded in 2016 to</span></span><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.300000190734863px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IBM</span><span class=""> Research </span><span class="">for their ground-breaking project on the neuromorphic processor TrueNorth.</span><span class=""> </span></div></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The competition is open to any individual or research group worldwide</b>. A description of any type of neurally-inspired hardware, software, or algorithm may be submitted. The award is for an original, ground-breaking contribution to neuromorphic engineering. The work of individuals and groups will be considered equally. Only one winner is announced each year. There are no runners-up. Revised resubmissions are encouraged. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">To apply:</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Send an extended abstract in English of up to two DIN A4 pages, containing:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Applicant(s) and affiliation(s)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Contact person information</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Project title</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Brief description of the work, its novelty, and its potential impact, including images/tables/original paper links </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.3px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.3px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.3px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Link to a video, if applicable (authors must arrange for unrestricted<font size="2" class=""> </font></span><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.3px; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">online viewing of video)</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Send the document as a PDF file (max. size 2 MB) to </span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:prize@mahowaldprize.org">prize@mahowaldprize.org</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">If a video is included in the submission, a download link to the original source file should be included.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The submission deadline is February 1, 2017</b>. </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">2017 Jury:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Prof. Dr. Steve Furber, University of Manchester</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr. Dan Hammerstrom, DARPA</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Prof. Dr. Christof Koch, CSO, Allen Institute for Brain Science</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr. Dharmendra Modha, IBM Research - Almaden</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr. Eric Ryu, Master, Samsung Electronics</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">•</span><span class="" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Prof. Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute (head of the Jury)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="text-indent: 0px;">The Prize is sponsored by <b class="">iniLabs</b>, a technology company based in Switzerland that invents, produces, and sells neuromorphic technologies for research. <b class="">iniLabs</b> plays no role in selecting the nominee.</span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; text-indent: -9.3px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="text-indent: 0px;"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 9.3px; 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