<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Call for papers: Workshop on Neuromorphic Hardware in Practice and Use at IJCNN 2018</b><br></div><div><br><div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, hosted at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2018) </span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil </span>- <a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/workshops-sessions/#gwt2" target="_blank">http://www.ecomp.poli.br/~wcci2018/workshops-sessions/#gwt2</a></div></div><div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Organizers</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Craig M. Vineyard, PhD, Sandia National Laboratories, <a href="mailto:cmviney@sandia.gov" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">cmviney@sandia.gov</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box">William M. Severa, PhD, Sandia National Laboratories, <a href="mailto:wmsever@sandia.gov" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">wmsever@sandia.gov</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Kristofor D. Carlson, PhD, BrainChip Inc., <a href="mailto:kcarlson@brainchipinc.com" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">kcarlson@brainchipinc.com</a></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Website: </strong><a href="http://neuroscience.sandia.gov/research/wcci2018.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:0px 0px;text-decoration-line:none;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://neuroscience.sandia.gov/research/wcci2018.html</a></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Description of the workshop</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">This workshop is designed to explore the current advances, challenges and best practices for working with and implementing algorithms on neuromorphic hardware. Despite growing availability of prominent biologically inspired architectures and corresponding interest, practical guidelines and results are scattered and disparate. This leads to wasted repeated effort and poor exposure of state-of-the-art results. We collect cutting edge results from a variety of application spaces providing both an up-to-date, in-depth discussion for domain experts as well as an accessible starting point for newcomers.</p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Goals & Objectives</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">The goal is to bring together algorithm and architecture researchers and help facilitate how challenges each face can be overcome for mutual benefit. In particular, by focusing on neuromorphic hardware practice and use, an emphasis on understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these emerging approaches can help to identify and convey the significance of research developments. </p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Scope and Topics:</strong></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Neuromorphic hardware; benchmarks and comparisons; applications, software, and toolkits; algorithms; workflows and integration</p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><b>Submission Guidelines:</b></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">The workshop requests submissions to follow IEEE conference style similar to the main conference.  Papers should be submitted in pdf format with a maximum length of 2 pages (excluding references and acknowledgements).  Appendices are not permitted beyond the 2 page limit.  Submissions will be selected according to reviewer's comments and scoring with emphasis on quality, novelty, appropriateness for the workshop and potential impact on the field.</p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"><b>Important Dates:<br></b></p><p style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify"></p><ul style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><li>Paper submission deadline: 30 April 2018</li><li>Paper submissions sent to reviewers: 1 May 2018</li><li>Decisions sent to submission authors: 10 May 2018</li></ul><br class="inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>