Connectionists: CFP NIPS 2016 Workshop: Computing with Spikes [EXTENDED DEADLINE]

[Sander Bohte]

** EXTENDED DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1 **

CALL FOR PAPERS

NIPS 2016 Workshop: Computing with Spikes

https://www.cwi.nl/computing-spikes-nips-2016-workshop


The first NIPS Workshop Computing with Spikes will be held at NIPS 2016 in
Barcelona, Spain, Saturday December 10.

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We invite you to submit new work on computing with spiking neurons.
Submissions should be in the NIPS 2016 format with a maximum of eight
pages. Author names need not be anonymized and references can extend beyond
the 8 pages as far as needed; the usual NIPS policy on supplementary
information applies. Accepted submissions will get a spotlight and a poster
presentation; a small subset will be selected for contributed talks. The
submission deadline is *November 1* (midnight), and decisions will be sent
out on *November 7*. Please submit papers by email to this address:

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Despite remarkable computational success, artificial neural networks ignore
the spiking nature of neural communication that is fundamental for
biological neuronal networks. Understanding how spiking neurons process
information and learn remains an essential challenge. It concerns not only
neuroscientists studying brain function, but also neuromorphic engineers
developing low-power computing architectures, or machine learning
researchers devising new biologically-inspired learning algorithms.
Unfortunately, despite a joint interest in spike-based computation, the
interactions between these subfields remains limited. The workshop aims to
bring them together and to foster the exchange between them by focusing on
recent developments in efficient neural coding and spiking neurons'
computation. The discussion will center around critical questions in the
field, such as "what are the underlying paradigms?" "what are the
fundamental constraints?", and "what are the measures for progress?”, that
benefit from varied perspectives. The workshop will combine invited talks
reviewing the state-of-the-art and short contributed presentations, and it
will conclude with a panel discussion.

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Invited Speakers

Sophie Deneve (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Wolfgang Maass (U. Graz)
Steve Furber (U. Manchester)
Tobi Delbrueck (ETH Zurich, INI)
Terry Steward (U Waterloo)
Paul Merolla (IBM Truenorth team)

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Organizers:  <http://pub.ist.ac.at/~csavin/>
Cristina Savin <http://pub.ist.ac.at/~csavin/> (IST),
Thomas Nowotny <http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~tn41/> (U Sussex),
Davide Zambrano <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Davide_Zambrano> (CWI)

Sander Bohte <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~sbohte/> (CWI).
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