<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="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098);"><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="">CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS</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 Third Misha Mahowald Prize for Neuromorphic Engineering</span></div></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="">Previous winners of the prize include</span></span><span class="" style="text-indent: -9.300000190734863px;"> </span><span class="">IBM</span><span class=""> Research (Principal Investigator: Dharmendra Modha) </span><span class="">for the TrueNorth neuromorphic processor, and the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich (</span>Principal Investigator: Davide Scaramuzza) for their work on event-based vision for autonomous robots.</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;">Submit 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;"><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;"><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;"><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;"><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;"><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 class="" size="2"> </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: <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, 2018</b>. </span></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><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;"></span></span></div></span><br class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Prize is sponsored by </span><b class="">iniLabs</b><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a technology company based in Switzerland that invents, produces, and sells neuromorphic technologies for research. </span><b class="">iniLabs</b><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> plays no role in selecting the nominee.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">—</div><div class="">Dr. Yulia Sandamirskaya</div><div class="">Neuroscience Center Zurich (ZNZ)<br class="">Institute of Neuroinformatics<br class="">University and ETH Zurich<br class="">Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich</div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:ysandamirskaya@ini.ethz" class="">yulia.sandamirskaya@ini.</a><a href="http://uzh.ch" class="">uzh.ch</a><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>