Connectionists: 2023 Misha Mahowald Prizes for Neuromorphic Engineering

[Tobi Delbruck (INI)]

The Juries of the Misha Mahowald Prizes for Neuromorphic Engineering 
have announced the following awards on the Prize website
at 1200 15 December 2023 UTC. (see https://www.mahowaldprize.org/). 
Details the 2023 awards are provided at 
https://www.mahowaldprize.org/prize-awards/prizes-2023

Recognition of Lifetime Contribution to Neuromorphic Engineering:

This special award is conferred on Prof. Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty 
Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the 
California Institute of Technology.

Jury citation: "Carver Mead established the field of Neuromorphic 
Electronic Engineering. His creativity and vision has inspired a 
generation of scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs  to emulate 
brain-like information processing in electronic systems."

Misha Mahowald Prize:

The jury awarded the 2023 award to a team from the Sandia National 
Laboratories for the project "Neuromorphic Advantage for Discrete-Time 
Markov Chain Random Walks"

Jury citation: "The Sandia team demonstrated that neuromorphic hardware 
can efficiently implement Monte Carlo methods for solving differential 
equations.  Monte Carlo methods are used for solving a wide range of 
problems including those in heat transfer, medical imaging and finance."

Tobi Delbruck (on behalf of the MMPs)
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