1800 - 1900 Welcome Reception at the Elementary School
0830 - 0900 Giacomo, Paul, Ralph, Shihab, Avis
"Welcome!"
0900 - 1030 Kwabena Boahen
"Analog is Not Neuromorphic: In Praise of Mismatch"
1100 - 1230 Rodney Douglas
"Neocortical neural networks, computations, and implementation in hybrid CMOS VLSI electronic systems."
1330 - 1430 Personal Introductions
1430 - 1630 Auditory Neuroscience Tutorial (Shihab Shamma)
1630 - 1800 AER: Concepts and Tools Tutorial (Linares-Barranco)
Host: Ralph Etienne-Cummings
0900 - 1030 Tetsu Yagi
"A neuromorphic robotic vision"
1100 - 1230 Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
"Auditory attention and spatial hearing"
1500 - 1600 Workgroup Advertisements and Scheduling
1630 - 1830 AER Concepts and Tools Tutorial
2100 - 2200 Vision System Workgroup: Bert Shi
Host: Rodney Douglas
0900 - 1030 Avis Cohen
"The Biological Basis of Central Pattern Generators: Nature's Way of Generating and Controlling Locomotion"
1100 - 1230 Ralph Etienne-Cummings
"Towards a Spinal Neuroprosthetic Device:Using a Lamprey's Spine to Make a Cat Walk"
1345 - 1430 Walter Huang
"Parade meeting !!!!!!!! -Lecture Room"
1430 - 1600 Misha Pavel
"Fusion-Based Robust Pattern Recognition by Humans and Machines"
1600 - 1730 Audition Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
"Tutorial on Sound Seggragation"
1800 - 1900 Workshop BBQ
2100 - 2200 Vision System Workgroup: Bert Shi
Host: Paul Hasler
0900 - 1030 Shihab Shamma
1100 - 1230 Hynek Hermansky
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo
1430 - 1600 Locomotion Workgroup: Avis Cohen
"Motor System Tutorial"
1500 - 1600 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1600 - 1700 Floating gates Workgroup: Paul Hasler
1700 - 1800 Bias Gen Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1800 - 1900 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
Host: Avis Cohen
0900 - 1000 Tobi Delbruck
"Silicon retina tetina tetina..."
1015 - 1030 Tobi Delbruck
"Subversion Tutorial"
1100 - 1230 Bert Shi
"Modelling the Multi-dimensional Selectivity of the Visual Cortex with Neuromorphic Hardware"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1600 - 1700 Toy Hacks Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1900 - 2000 Volleyball Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
2000 - 2130 Architecture Discussion group: Sean Taffler
0900 - 1030 Paul Hasler
"Neuromorphic Engineering as Programmable and Reconfigurable Physical Computing"
1100 - 1230 David Anderson
"Neuromorphic Audio Signal Processing"
1530 - 1630 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1530 - 1630 Locomotiom Workgroup (Delayed because of Soccer Game)
1630 - 1800 Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Discussion Group: David Gamez
1800 - 1900 Tetsu Yagi
"Retinal Prosthesis"
Host: Ralph Etienne-Cummings
0900 - 1030 Tony Lewis
"Biologically Inspired Locomotion and the Billion Dollar Consumer Robotics Industry"
1030 - 1100 Filip Ponulak
"Show RoboSumo Video"
1100 - 1230 Giacomo Indiveri
"Synaptic Plasticity and Synaptic Dynamics in VLSI"
1400 - 1530 Alejandro Linares-Barranco
"AER Tools"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1600 - 1700 "Cognition" and "Analog is not Neuromorphic" Joint Discussion
1700 - 1800 Kwabena Boahen
"AER transmitter and receiver design"
2000 - 2100 Locomotion Workgroup
"Filip will demonstrate his software Ralph will discuss sensory feedback (if time permits)"
2100 - 2200 Vision System Workgroup: Bert Shi
0900 - 0900 Every people meet in the School
1100 - 1230 Independence Day Parade!
1230 - 1430 BBQ at the Town Park
1300 - 1500 World Cup: Germany - Italy
1600 - 1700 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1800 - 2000 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
"Mapper and Framegrabber Tutorial"
2145 - ???? Fireworks!
Host: Paul Hasler
0900 - 1030 John Jeka
"Human Postural Control: Fusing Multisensory Information Adaptively"
1100 - 1230 Kwabena Boahen
"Neurogrid: Emulating a million neurons in the cortex"
1300 - 1500 World Cup: Portugal - France
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1630 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
"AER-Tools"
1800 - 1900 Workshop BBQ
1900 - 2000 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Vector Symbolic Architectures - Simple operations on very high dimensional distributed vector representations that provide really useful basic functionality. Location: !LuLu 4C (near the BBQ). We should be able to cluster around a laptop."
Host: Shihab Shamma
0900 - 1030 Stephen DeWeerth
"Robots, Circuits, and Neurons: A Hybrid Approach to Studying Locomotion"
1100 - 1230 Terry Sejnowski
"Mapping Function onto Dendritic Structure"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Locomotiom Workgroup
1600 - 1700 Floating gates Workgroup: Paul Hasler
1700 - 1800 Bias Gen Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1800 - 1900 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
1900 - 2000 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Demo of solving the shifter problem with VSAs. Solve a learning problem in one iteration that took a Boltzmann machine >300k iterations to learn."
2100 - 2200 Analog is not Neuromorphic Discussion: Kwabena Boahen
"Information theoretic analysis of multiple input-output systems"
Host: Giacomo Indiveri
0900 - 1030 Daniel Salzman
"Neural mechanisms for learning about good and bad in primate amygdala."
1100 - 1230 Shih-chii Liu
"The Road to Making an Asynchronous Spike-Based Vision System"
1500 - 1600 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1600 - 1700 Toy Hacks Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1730 - 1900 Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Discussion Group: David Gamez
1900 - 2000 Volleyball Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1900 - 2000 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Demo of solving the shifter problem with VSAs. Solve a learning problem in one iteration that took a Boltzmann machine >300k iterations to learn. This is a repeat of the demo from Thursday night, for the benefit of those who were not able to make it. (Let me know if this conflicts with volleyball for you and we can organise an alternative time.)"
2100 - 2200 Vision System Workgroup: Bert Shi
Host: Ralph Etienne-Cummings
0900 - 1030 Alan Stocker
"Uncertainty and Perception"
1100 - 1230 Nic Schraudolph
"The Why and How of Online Learning - Past, Present, and Future"
1300 - 1500 World Cup: Third Place
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Locomotiom Workgroup: Steve DeWeerth Talks
1500 - 1600 Bias Generator Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1200 - 1400 World Cup: Championship
Host: Paul Hasler
0900 - 1030 Ayanna Howard
"Title: Human-Inspired Techniques for Robotic Control"
1100 - 1230 Soo-Young Lee
"Modeling Auditory Pathway for Feature Extraction,Binaural Processing and Top-Down Attention"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1600 - 1700 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Map Seeking Circuits - a connectionist circuit (which has been mapped to an unimplemented neuromorphic implementation) that decomposes its input into the composition of a set of transformations. Useful for (at least) perceptual invariance and kinematic planning. (Let me know if this conflicts with the spiking learning discussion group for you and we can organise an alternative time.)"
1730 - 1900 Learning in Spiking Neural Networks Discussion Group: David Gamez
Host: Giacomo Indiveri
0900 - 1030 Sylvie Renaud
"Neuromimetic ASICs: analog, digital or mixed? Some issues and answers"
1100 - 1230 Gregor Schoener
"Dynamic field theory:a tutorial on strongly interacting neural networks and their use in autonomous robotics and fast object"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1500 - 1600 Locomotiom Workgroup
1600 - 1800 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
1800 - 1900 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Predictive State Representations - representing the state of the agent's world in terms of predicted potential sensorimotor interactions."
Host: Shihab Shamma
0900 - 1030 Patrick Kanold
"How to wire up a functional brain? Insights from cortical development"
1100 - 1230 Malcolm Slaney
"The Thirteen Colors Of Timbre (and why neuromorphic work matters to Yahoo!)"
1400 - 1500 aVLSI Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri
1600 - 1700 Bias Gen Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1700 - 1800 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
1800 - 1900 Workshop BBQ
1900 - 2000 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
"Right after the BBQ at Lulu 4C. General discussion and catch-up on missed topics."
Host: Ralph Etienne-Cummings
0900 - 1230 '''Report Writing'''
1500 - 1600 Locomotiom Workgroup
1600 - 1700 Floating gates Workgroup: Paul Hasler
1800 - 1900 AER integration Workgroup: Linares-Barranco
1900 - 2000 Cognition Discussion Group: Ross Gayler
Host: Giacomo Indiveri/Paul Hasler/Ralph Etienne-Cummings
0900 - 1200 Project Presentations and Demos
1300 - 1700 Project Presentations, Demos and Writing
1500 - 1600 Auditory Workgroup: Shihab Shamma
1600 - 1700 Toy Hacks Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
1800 - 2100 Final Dinner! - Skits!
1900 - 2000 Volleyball Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck
0900 - 1300 Packing up equipment and loading the trucks!
1300 - 1500 Help Clean the Schoolhouse!
1430 - 1600 Locomotion Workgroup