Early history 1994-2004

Years 1994-2004

See these folders of workshop reports, schedules and participants.

Telluride 1994

Organizers:

Week One Organizers:

  • Rodney Douglas (Oxford) - rjd@vax.ox.ac.uk

  • Misha Mahowald (Oxford) - mam@vax.ox.ac.uk

  • Steve Lisberger (UCSF) - sgl@phy.ucsf.edu

Week One Participants:

Week Two Organizers:

Week Two Participants:

Technical Personnel:

Telluride 3-10 July 1994

Despite good intentions, the program is fuller than it should be. Lets try to increase free-time, by keeping the presentations within the following durations

  • Lectures (L), 40 mins

  • Lecture-demos (LD), 30 mins

  • Demos (D), 15-20 mins.

The venue for most activities will be the Telluride Elementary School.

  • Mornings: 09h00 - 12h00

  • Afternoons: 14h00 - 17h00

  • Evenings: 20h00 - ?


Sunday-First day

  • 18:00 - Cocktails at Wendy's home

Chairman: Christof

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Introduction and Orientation

    • Carver - Neuromorphic Principles

    • Retinas running for fun

Monday-Neuron day

Chairman: Misha

  • Morning:

    • Christof - Basic neurons and simplified models (L)

    • Rodney - Neurons from an aVLSI point of view (L)

  • Afternoon:

    • Carver, Misha Basic aVLSI Tutorial

  • Evening:

    • Woody - Bidirectional delay line (D)

    • Steve L. - Single neurons and system properties in motor control (L)

Tuesday-Occulomotor day

Chairman: Terry

  • Morning:

    • Steve L. - Occulomotor systems for engineers (L)

    • Steve D. - aVLSI occulomotor systems (LD)

    • Tim - aVLSI tectum (LD)

  • Afternoon:

    • Carver - Learning in aVLSI systems (L)

    • Misha, Rodney Silicon neurons

  • Evening:

Wednesday-Robot day

Chairman: Rodney

  • Morning:

    • Steve L. - Motor control in nervous systems (L)

    • Mark T. - Robot architectures (L)

  • Afternoon:

    • Mark T. and Ronnie Neuromorphic robots

    • Mark N. - Hexapod controller

    • Childrens's lectures and demos

  • Evening:

    • Jon - Stiquito building + refreshments

Thursday-Vision day

Chairman: Christof

  • Morning:

    • Misha and Buster - Silicon retinae (LD)

    • Christof and Tobi - Vision chips (LD)

    • David - aVLSI camera (D)

  • Afternoon:

    • Misha - Testing photosensitive circuits

    • Tobi - Scanning outputs from chip to video

    • Barbeque

  • Evening:

    • Christof, Rodney Public lectures and demos

    • Woody - Pulse-based photodectector (D)

    • Shih-chii - Velocity adaptive sensors (LD)

Friday-Communication day

Chairman: Misha

  • Morning:

    • Rodney - Cortical connectivity (L)

    • Buster and Misha - Address event transmission

  • Afternoon:

    • Tobi Mac Interface to AER transmitters and receivers ()

    • Buster Compiling CIF for Arbiter Trees and Demultiplexors

  • Evening:

    • Steve Deiss - AER-based multichip frame (LD)

Saturday-Learning day

Chairman: Rodney

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski - Biologically plausible learning (L)

    • Gert Cauwenbergs - Learning networks (L)

  • Afternoon:

    • Steve DW and Tim Working with servo motors in your own backyard

    • Jon Kirchhoff machines

  • Evening:

    • Dinner---END


Telluride 1995


Telluride 1995 Participants


Organizers:

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason

  • Gail Patricelli - gailpat@csn.org

Technical Personnel:

Participants


Telluride 1995 Workshop Schedule


Sunday June 25.

  • 17:00 - Welcome cocktail at Wendy Brook's house one block behind the school

  • 18:00 - Christof Koch Orientation, and introduction to the workshop and computer setup

Monday June 26.

  • Morning:

    • Misha Mahowald I. Introduction to neuromorphic VLSI

    • Rajesh Rao II. Computational subunits in pipe computing

  • Afternoon:

    • Dana Ballard B. Basic videopipe lab

  • Evening:

    • Introductions by participants.

Tuesday June 27.

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch I. Basic biophysics and neuron models

    • John Elias II. Neurons in silicon

    • Dana Ballard III. Introduction to active sensory motor systems

  • Afternoon:

    • Dana Ballard B. Videopipe programming

  • Evening:

    • Introductions by participants.

Wednesday June 28.

  • Morning:

    • Avis Cohen I. Central pattern generators

    • Mark Tilden II. Multi-legged robots

    • Mary Hayhoe III. Human sensory-motor coordination in driving and puzzle solving

  • Afternoon:

    • Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu A. Basic VLSI

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • Steve DeWeerth , Mark Tilden Locomotion

    • Dana Ballard B. Motion detection; time to contact; egomotion detection

    • Christof Koch Public Lecture: The Neuronal Basis of Consciousness

  • Evening

    • Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu VLSI lab

    • Interest group meetings.

Thursday June 29.

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski I. Neurobiology of sensory systems

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck II. Silicon sensors

    • Garbis Salgian III. Computing color and motion

  • Afternoon:

    • Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu A. Basic VLSI

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • Steve DeWeerth , Mark Tilden Locomotion

    • Dana Ballard B. Motion detection; time to contact; egomotion detection

  • Evening: Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu Basic VLSI lab

    • Interest group meetings.

Friday June 30

  • Morning:

    • Fun Day Out

    • 8:00 - River Rafting - Half day cruise on the San Miguel River.

Saturday July 1.

  • Morning:

    • Matthew Marjanovic I. Robotic Architectures

    • Garbis Salgian II. Computing color and motion

  • Afternoon:

    • Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu A. Basic VLSI

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • Steve DeWeerth , Mark Tilden Locomotion

    • Dana Ballard B. Motion detection; time to contact; egomotion detection.

  • Evening: Misha Mahowald ,Shih-chii Liu Basic VLSI lab

    • Interest group meetings.

Sunday July 2.

  • Morning:

    • Free Time

  • Afternoon:

    • Kwabena Boahen A. Address-Event Communication

    • Chris Diorio Floating Gates

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • B. Object identification circuitry.

  • Evening:

    • Neuromorphic group discussion.

    • Active vision group discussion.

Monday July 3.

  • Morning:

    • Rodney Douglas I. Circuits in Neocortex

    • Misha Mahowald II. Cortical circuits in VLSI: Stereopsis

  • Afternoon:

    • Kwabena Boahen A. Address-Event Communication

    • Chris Diorio Floating Gates

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • B. Object identification circuitry.

    • Kids Hour Various hands-on demonstrations for children

  • Evening:

    • Midway whole group discussion.

Tuesday July 4.

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski I. Learning in biological systems

    • Graham Cairns II. Learning Theory and VLSI Neural Networks

    • March in Parade

  • Afternoon:

    • Kwabena Boahen A. Address-Event Communication

    • Chris Diorio Floating Gates

    • Tobi DelbrĂĽck Retinas and Video Output

    • B. Object identification circuitry.

  • Evening: Interest group meetings.

Wednesday July 5.

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch I. Selective Visual Attention

    • Steve DeWeerth II. VLSI circuits for attention

    • Tim Horiuchi III. A Neuromorphic Saccadic System with Learning

  • Afternoon:

    • Steve DeWeerth , Mark Tilden A. Locomotion

    • Kwabena Boahen Address Event Communication

    • Chris Diorio Floating Gates

    • B. Visual behaviors; homing; saccades; object location.

  • Evening:

    • Interest group meetings.

Thursday July 6.

  • Morning:

    • Stefan Schaal I. Visually guided robots

    • Terry Sejnowski II. Oculomotor Control Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • Steve DeWeerth , Mark Tilden A. Locomotion

    • Kwabena Boahen Address Event Communication

    • Chris Diorio Floating Gates

    • B. Visual behaviors; homing; saccades; object location.

    • 18:00 - BBQ

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Public Lecture

    • 21:30 - Interest group reports

Friday July 7.

  • Morning:

    • Packup!

  • Afternoon:

    • Packing up equipment.

  • Evening:

    • Whole group dinner and final discussion.

Saturday July 8.

  • Post-workshop hiking

  • Bryan, Tim, and Jorg drive off into the sunset with the goods.

Sunday July 9.

  • Bon Voyage!

Telluride 1996


Telluride 1996 Participants


Organizers:

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason

  • Rochelle Chambers - telluride_academy@infozone.org

Technical Personnel:

Participants


Telluride 1996 Workshop Schedule


Monday 24 June

Arrive at Telluride.

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 - Welcome cocktail party at Wendy Brook's house.

    • 19:00 - Christof Koch Orientation, and introduction to workshop facilities

Tuesday 25 June

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch I. Basic Biophysics and Neuron Models

    • John Elias II. Neurons in Silicon

  • Evening:

    • Introductions by participants

Wedsday 26 June

  • Morning:

    • Rodney DouglasI Circuits in Neocortex

    • Misha Mahowald II. Cooperative Circuits

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Introductions by participants

Thursday 27 June

  • Morning:

    • Dana Ballard I. Trends in active perception

    • Dana Ballard II. Trends in active perception

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - 17:00 BBQ

  • Evening:

    • Public Lecture by Workshop Faculty

Friday 28 June

  • Morning:

    • Andreas Andreou I. Audition in aVLSI

    • Chris Toumazou II. Current-mode aVLSI design

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Introductions by participants

Saturday 29 June

  • Morning:

    • Tobi Delbruck I. Silicon Sensors

    • Jörg Kramer II. Motion Chips

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Collective Dinner

Sunday 30 June

Free


Monday 1 July

  • Morning:

    • Tim Smithers I. Robots as Dynamical Systems I.

    • Tim Smithers II. Robots as Dynamical Systems II.

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • projects cont.

Tuesday 2 July

  • Morning:

    • Avis Cohen I. Central Pattern Generators

    • Steve DeWeerth II. VLSI circuits for intersegmental coordination

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • projects cont.

Wedsday 3 July

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski I. Learning in Biological Systems

    • Lex Akers II. Learning in aVLSI systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Preparations for Independence Day Parade.

Thursday 4 July

  • Morning:

    • 11:00 - Independence day Parade Lunch: Independence Day BBQ

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Independence Day Fireworks Display.

Friday 5 July

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski I. Occulomotor Control Systems

    • Tim Horiuchi II. Neuromorphic Saccadic Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Independence Day Fireworks Display.

Saturday 6 July

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch I. Selective Visual Attention

    • Tonia Morris II. aVLSI circuits for attention

  • Afternoon:

    • Optional Overnight Mountain Hike

Sunday 7 July

Free Evening: Review of Progress


Monday 8 July

  • Morning:

    • Paul Viola I. Vision

    • Stefan Schaal II. Visually Guided Robots

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Project

Tuesday 9 July

  • Morning:

    • Stefan Schaal I. Non-linear dynamics and robotics

    • Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi II. Motor Control

  • Afternoon:

    • 16:00 - Project

  • Evening:

    • Project

Wedsday 10 July

  • River rafting expedition

  • Evening:

    • Collective dinner

Thursday 11 July

  • Morning:

    • Geoffrey Hinton I. Trends in artificial neural networks

    • Geoffrey Hinton II. Unsupervised learning

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - Project

    • 17h0 BBQ

  • Evening:

    • Public Lecture by Workshop faculty.

Friday 12 July

  • Morning:

    • I. Group Presentations/Demos

    • II. Group Presentations/Demos

  • Afternoon:

    • Close labs, pack equipment.

  • Evening:

    • Group Presentations/Demo

Saturday 13 July

  • Morning:

    • Summing Up

  • Evening:

    • Closing Dinner and Prize Giving

Sunday 14 July

  • Check-out and departure

Telluride 1997



ORGANIZERS


Rodney Douglas rjd@neuroinf.ethz.ch Uni/ETH Zurich

Christof Koch koch@klab.caltech.edu Caltech

Terrence Sejnowski terry@salk.edu Salk/UCSD



STAFF


Reid Harrison harrison@klab.caltech.edu Caltech

Charles Higgins chuck@klab.caltech.edu Caltech

Giacomo Indiveri giacomo@neuroinf.ethz.ch Uni/ETH Zurich

Jörg Kramer kramer@neuroinf.ethz.ch Uni/ETH Zurich

Dave Lawrence dave@neuroinf.ethz.ch Uni/ETH Zurich

Bryan Nielsen bryan@salk.edu Salk



INVITED PEOPLE


Richard Anderson anderson@vis.caltech.edu Caltech

Andreas Andreou andreou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Johns Hopkins all 3 weeks

Xavier Arreguit arreguit@csemne.ch CSEM ask Vittoz first

Dana Ballard dana@cs.rochester.edu Uni Rochester

Kwabena Boahen buster@pcmp.caltech.edu Uni Pennsylvania

Avis Cohen avis@ipst.umd.edu Uni Maryland

Tobi DelbrĂĽck tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu Arithmos

Steve DeWeerth steve.deweerth@eecom.gatech.edu Georgia Tech

Paul Hasler paul@pcmp.caltech.edu Caltech

Tim Horiuchi timmer@klab.caltech.edu Johns Hopkins

Tor Sverre Lande t.s.lande@notam.uio.no Uni Oslo

Shih-Chii Liu shih@pcmp.caltech.edu Caltech/Rockwell no talk

Stefan Schaal sschaal@cc.gatech.edu Georgia Tech

Shihab A. Shamma sas@isr.umd.edu Uni Maryland

Mark Tilden mwtilden@lanl.gov Los Alamos no talk

Chris Toumazou c.toumazou@ic.ac.uk Imperial College

Paul Verschure pfmjv@neuroinf.ethz.ch Uni/ETH Zurich

Paul Viola viola@ai.mit.edu MIT

Eric Vittoz vittoz@csemne.ch CSEM


Monday 23 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 - Welcome cocktail party at Wendy Brook's house

    • 19:00 - Christof Koch Orientation and introduction to workshop facilities

Tuesday 24 June

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch Basic Biophysics and Neuron Models

    • Rodney Douglas Neurons in Silicon

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Introductions by participants

Wednesday 25 June

  • Morning:

    • Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic analog VLSI for industrial applications

    • Shih-Chii Liu Neuromorphic Modeling in the Fly Visual System

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Further Participant Introductions

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Workshop/Course Organizational meeting

Thursday 26 June

  • Morning:

    • Rodney Douglas Circuits in Neocortex

    • Shihab Shamma Auditory Physiology I

  • Afternoon workshops:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab Organizational Meeting (Lecture Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Reid Harrison Pathfinder Rover Talk (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 - BBQ at Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Avis Cohen Public Lecture: Spinal Cord Regeneration

    • 21:30 - 22:00 Auditory Processing Group Organizational Meeting (Lecture Room)

Friday 27 June

  • Morning:

    • Avis Cohen Central Pattern Generators

    • Open

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 13:30 Interchip Communication Organizational Meeting (Lecture Room)

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Auditory Processing Lab (Robot Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Interchip Communication Lecture -- Introduction (Lecture Room)

    • 18:00 - 18:30 Sensory-Motor Lab Organizational Meeting (Lecture Room)

    • 18:00 - 18:30 Learning in Neurobots Organizational Meeting (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 Industrial Applications Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

    • 21:00 Active Vision Lab (Computer Room)

Saturday 28 June

  • Morning:

    • Shihab Shamma Auditory Physiology II

    • Andreas Andreou Audition in aVLSI

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (Robot Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Interchip Communication Lecture -- Handshaking/Pipelining (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Interchip Communications Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

Sunday 29 June

  • Free

Monday 30 June

  • Morning:

    • Tobi Delbruck Silicon Sensors

    • John Kauer Representation of Odorant Molecular Structure by the Olfactory System; from Biology to an Artificial Nose

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gate Lab - Introduction to Floating Gates (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Learning in Neurobots (Robot Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Motion Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • 21:30 - ??:?? Auditory Processing Lab (Robot Room)

Tuesday 1 July

  • Morning:

    • Jörg Kramer Compact aVLSI Velocity Sensors

    • Reid Harrison Analog VLSI Model of the Fly Elementary Motion Detector

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Interchip Communication Lecture -- Arbitration (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Learning in Neurobots (Robot Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Computer Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (Robot Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Locomotion Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

Wednesday 2 July

  • Morning:

    • Gert Cauwenberghs Reinforcement Learning in aVLSI

    • Paul Hasler Memory in Silicon Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Auditory Processing Lab (Robot Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gates Lab -- E-Pots (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Learning in Neurobots (Robot Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- aVLSI CPG (Girish) (VLSI Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Computer Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Motion Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • 22:00 - ??:?? Selection, Attention, and Intention Group (meet in front of Lecture Room)

Thursday 3 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:00 River Rafting Trip (am)

  • Morning lectures:

    • Andreas Andreou Audition in aVLSI II

    • Denise Wilson Translating Olfaction to Artificial Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 River Rafting Trip

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (Robot Room)

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 - 20:00 BBQ at Telluride Lodge

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Coupled Oscillators (Gennady) (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Christof Koch Public Lecture: Towards the Neural Basis of Consciousness

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Learning in Neurobots (Robot Room)

    • 21:00 - 23:00 Interchip Communication Lecture -- System Level (Lecture Room)

Friday 4 July

  • 11:07 Pathfinder Lander/Rover Lands on Mars!

  • Fun:

    • 11:00 Independence Day Parade & BBQ lunch

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (VLSI Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Auditory Processing Lab (Robot Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Learning in Neurobots (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gates Lecture (Lecture and Computer Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Designing a Robot Lamprey (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Learning in Neurobots (Robot Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Interchip Communication Design Lab (Computer Room)

    • After Dark: Independence Day Fireworks

Saturday 5 July

  • Morning:

    • Orly Yadid-Pecht Biological Wide Dynamic Range Vision - What Can We Build in Comparison

    • Kwabena Boahen Multichip Large-Scale Neuromorphic Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 15:00 Computerless Robots Competition

    • 15:00 - 16:00 Christoph Rasche Silicon Neuron Demo(Robot Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Sensory-Motor Systems Lab (Robot Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • Optional overnight mountain hike

Sunday 6 July

  • Free day

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 Review of progress (Lecture Room)

Monday 7 July

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski Oculomotor Control Systems

    • Tim Horiuchi Neuromorphic Saccadic Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (Lecture/Computer Room)

    • 14:30 - 16:00 Interchip Communication Protocol Discussion (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Learning in Neurobots (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gates Lab (VLSI Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Designing a Robot Lamprey (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Motion Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

    • 22:00 - 22:30 Tom Morse C. Elegans Chemotaxis Robot Project Talk and Demo (Lecture Room)

Tuesday 8 July

  • Morning:

    • Terry Sejnowski Place Cells in the Hippocampus and Neural Coding

    • Terry Sejnowski Blind Separation and Analysis of fMRI Data

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (Computer Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Interchip Communication Protocol Discussion (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gates Lab (VLSI Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Attention Discussion Group (Meet in front of Lecture Room at 16:00)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Collective Project Discussion (CPG for 4-legged walking robot) (Gennady, Girish, Susanne) (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Computer Room)

Wednesday 9 July

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch Selective Visual Attention

    • Richard Andersen The Represenation of Space in Cortex

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (Lecture/Computer Room)

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Floating Gates Lab (VLSI Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Final Presentations and Discussion (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Motion Discussion Group (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Computer Room)

    • 22:00 - 23:00 ICA for Beginners (LEE) (Lecture Room)

Thursday 10 July

  • Morning:

    • Richard Andersen Attention and Intention in Parietal Cortex

    • Jordi Madrenas Reconfiguration in Field-Programmable System on Chip

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 Synchronization of Spikes in Visual Processing Discussion Group (Meet in front of Lecture Room)

    • 12:00 The Future of Analog VLSI Motion Processing Discussion Group (Meet in front of Lecture Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Basic aVLSI Course (Computer Room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 aVLSI Learning Systems (Lecture Room)

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Denise Wilson, Eric Blom Olfaction and Sensorimotor System Demo, aka Sniff and Locate (Lecture/Computer Room)

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 - 20:00 BBQ

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Locomotion Discussion Group -- Final Presentations and Discussion (Lecture Room)

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Reid Harrison Public Lecture: Mars Pathfinder and the Future of Robots in Space Exploration

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Jayadeva Discussion on Optimization with Neural Networks (Lecture Room)

    • 22:00 - 23:00 Synchronization of Spikes in Visual Processing Discussion (Lecture Room)

Friday 11 July

  • Morning:

    • Group presentations/demos

  • Afternoon:

    • Close labs, pack equipment

    • 18:00 ALL COMPUTERS IN ROBOT ROOM ARE SHUT DOWN!

  • Evening:

    • 21:00 Dinner with Award Ceremony at Rustico

Saturday 12 July

  • Morning & Afternoon

    • 11:00 ALL COMPUTERS ARE SHUT DOWN!!!

    • Individual group reports

Sunday 13 July

  • Check-out and departure


Telluride 1998


Telluride 1998 Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@ipst.umd.edu

  • Rodney Douglas, UNI/ETH Zurich - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute - terry@salk.edu

  • Shihab Shamma, - sas@isr.umd.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason:

  • Larry Rosen, Telluride Academy -

Technical Personnel:

  • Dave Flowers, Caltech - flowers@klab.caltech.edu

  • Reid Harrison, Caltech - harrison@klab.caltech.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, Johns Hopkins Univ. - timmer@jhu.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, UNI/ETH Zurich - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Klein, University of Maryland, College Park - djklein@isr.umd.edu

  • Jorg Kramer, UNI/ETH Zurich - kramer@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Lawrence, UNI/ETH Zurich - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Jonathan Simon, Institute for Systems Research - jzsimon@isr.umd.edu

  • Theron Stanford, Caltech - theron@klab.caltech.edu

Participants:

  • Pamela Abshire, - pamela@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

  • Ranit Aharonov, Hebrew Univ. at Jerusalem - ranit@cc.huji.ac.il

  • Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University - andreou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

  • Asli Arslan, The University of Edinburgh - Asli.Arslan@ee.ed.ac.uk

  • Randall Beer, - beer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Elizabeth Brauer, Northern Arizona University - Elizabeth.Brauer@nau.edu

  • C. Phillip Brown, Neural Systems Lab - University of Maryland - cpbrown@isr.umd.edu

  • Gert Cauwenberghs, Johns Hopkins University - gert@jhu.edu

  • Jim Clark, McGill University - clark@cim.mcgill.ca

  • Marc Cohen, Johns Hopkins University - marc@bach.ece.jhu.edu

  • Craig DeLancey, Indiana University Adaptive Systems Lab - cdelance@phil.indiana.edu

  • Steve DeWeerth, Georgia Tech - steve.deweerth@ece.gatech.edu

  • Tobi Delbruck, INI, Zurich - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Didier Depireux, Institute for Systems Research - didier@isr.umd.edu

  • Chris Diorio, The University of Washington - diorio@cs.washington.edu

  • Timothy R. Edwards, Johns Hopkins University - tim@bach.ece.jhu.edu

  • Mete Erturk, Neural Systems Lab, UMCP - erturk@glue.umd.edu

  • Nicola J. Ferrier, University of Wisconsin-Madison - ferrier@engr.wisc.edu

  • Harald M. Fuchs, TU-Graz - harry@igi.tu-graz.ac.at

  • Philipp Hafliger, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UNIZ, Switzerland - hafliger@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology - phasler@ee.gatech.edu

  • Chuck Higgins, Caltech - chuck@klab.caltech.edu

  • Martin Lades, - lades@earthlink.net

  • Daniel D. Lee, Bell Laboratories - ddlee@physics.lucent.com

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/UNIZ - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Yuri Lopez de Meneses, Laboratoire de Microinformatique (LAMI) - EPFL - lopezdem@di.epfl.ch

  • Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitaet Graz - maass@igi.tu-graz.ac.at

  • Brad Minch, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University - minch@ee.cornell.edu

  • Ania Mitros, - amitros@owlnet.rice.edu

  • Regina Mudra, Institut fuer Neuroinformatik - regina@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Thomas Netter, University of Nice - Sophia-Antipolis - tnetter@LNB.cnrs-mrs.fr

  • David Nicholson, CCNR University of Sussex - davidn@cogs.susx.ac.uk

  • Masahide Nomura, NEC Fundamental Res. Labs. - nomura@exp.cl.nec.co.jp

  • Timothy Pearce, Tufts University Medical School - tpearce@opal.tufts.edu

  • Alberto Pesavento, Caltech - alberto@klab.caltech.edu

  • Philippe Pouliquen, The Johns Hopkins University - philippe@alpha.ece.jhu.edu

  • Maximilian Riesenhuber, Center for Biological and Computational Learning and Department of Brain and Cog - max@ai.mit.edu

  • Eduardo Ros Vidal, University of Granada, Spain - eduardo@atc.ugr.es

  • Ralf Salomon, AI Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Zurich - salomon@ifi.unizh.ch

  • Nicol Schraudolph, IDSIA (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale) - nic@idsia.ch

  • Mario Simoni, Georgia Institute of Technology - mario@ece.gatech.edu

  • Malcolm Slaney, Interval Research Corporation - malcolm@interval.com

  • Leslie Smith, University of Stirling - l.s.smith@cs.stir.ac.uk

  • Nino Srour, US Army Research Laboratory - nsrour@arl.mil

  • Peter Stepien, SEDAL, The University of Sydney - pstepien@sedal.usyd.edu.au

  • Alan Stocker, INI - alan@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Mark W. Tilden, Robotics Research Scientist - mwtilden@aerie.lanl.gov

  • Rufin Van Rullen, CNRS - rufin@cerco.ups-tlse.fr

  • Paul Verschure, UNI/ETH Zurich - pfmjv@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Thelma Williams, University of London (St.George's Hospital Medical School) - thelma@sghms.ac.uk

  • Charles Wilson, Georgia Institute of Technology - cwilson@ece.gatech.edu

  • Andy Wuensche, Santa Fe Institute - wuensch@santafe.edu

  • Thomas P. Zahn, Technical University of Ilmenau Germany - zahn@informatik.tu-ilmenau.de

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - vschaik@physiol.usyd.edu.au


Telluride 1998 Workshop Schedule


Sunday 28 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 Welcome cocktail party (to be held at Christof Koch's place! - details to follow)

    • 19:00 Tour of the workshop facilities (@ the schoolhouse)

Monday 29 June

  • Morning:

    • 8:00 - 9:30 Christof Koch & Staff Welcome and Workshop Intro

    • 10:00 - 11:30 Christof Koch Basic Biophysics and Neuron Models

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Workgroup descriptions

    • 14:00 - 16:00 G. Indiveri, J. Kramer Basic aVLSI tutorial overview

    • 14:00 - 16:00 C. Diorio Floating-gate workgroup overview

    • 14:00 - 16:00 T. Horiuchi AER workgroup overview

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Discussion Group Proposals/Organization

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Introductions by participants

Tuesday 30 June

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Rodney Douglas Circuits in Neocortex

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic aVLSI Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - P. Verschure Neuromorphic Behaving Systems Workgroup descriptions

    • 14:00 - G. Indiveri aVLSI vision sensors for behaving robots

    • 14:00 - A. van Schaik Silicon Hearing Chips

    • 14:00 - M. Tilden, A. Cohen Locomotion/Robots workgroup overview

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Chris Diorio Joint aVLSI & Floating Gate Tutorial Lecture

Wednesday 1 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Leslie Smith Computation in the Auditory System

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Jim Clark Computational Vision for Sensorimotor Control and Navigation

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 14.00 Robot tools introduction

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - On-chip Learning Discussion Group

    • 19:30 - Individual Work on Projects

Thursday 2 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Avis Cohen Towards Design Principles for Locomotion: lessons from biology

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Nino Srour Acoustic Sensor Technology for Army Applications

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 - 14:00 FIRST Locomotion Project Group Meeting

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial (lecture room)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Auditory Discussion Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - FIRST AER project group meeting/lecture (VLSI room)

    • 16:00 - 17:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 BBQ at Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Rodney Douglas Public Lecture

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Individual Work on Projects

Friday 3 July

  • Morning:

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Randy Beer Design, Evolution and Analysis of Biologically-Inspired Control Systems for Walking

    • 12:30 - 14:00 Andreas Andreou About Cochlear Models, the psychophysical scale for speech perception and speech recognition

  • Afternoon:

    • 15:30 - Auditory Project Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - TNose Project Group

    • 19:30 - What is Computation? Discussion Group

    • 21:30 - Neuromorphic Engineering for Prosthetics Discussion Group

    • 21:30 - Individual Work on Projects

    • Preparations for Independence Day Parade!

Saturday 4 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - Meet at schoolhouse to prepare for parade

    • 9:30 - Line up at the parade beginning (Colorado and Willow?)

    • 10:00 - Independence Day Parade! & BBQ lunch (Town Park)

  • Evening:

    • After dark: Independence day Fireworks

    • Individual Work on Projects

Monday 6 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Kwabena Boahen The AER Communication Protocol

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Wolfgang Maass Spike-based Computation

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Auditory Group meeting

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - AER project group meeting

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - On-Chip Learning Discussion Group

    • 19:30 - Genetic Encoding Discussion Group

    • 21:30 - Neuromorphic Engineering for Prosthetics Discussion Group

    • 23:00 - Neuron modeling tutorial

    • Individual Work on Projects

Tuesday 7 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Avis Cohen Analysis of the Lamprey locomotion system

    • 10:30 - 12:00Thelma Williams Modeling the swimming of eel-like creatures

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 - 14:00 Locomotion Project Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - AER Project Group

    • 16:00 - 18:00 : aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Visual Motion Discussion Group Alan Stocker: "Computation of Optical Flow in a Cooperative Manner an aVLSI Implementation

    • 19:30 - On-Chip Learning Discussion Group

    • Individual Work on Projects

Wednesday 8 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Rodney Douglas Recurrent neuronal circuits in cortex

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Stephen DeWeerth VLSI Implementations of Pattern Generators and Intersegmental Coordination

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - River Rafting Trip ( Be sure to sign up both in the robot room and at Telluride Sports!)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - What is Computation Discussion Group

    • 21:30 - Neuromorphic Engineering for Prosthetics Discussion Group

    • Individual Work on Projects

Thursday 9 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Tobi Delbruck Silicon Retinas and CMOS imagers

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Chuck Higgins, Reid Harrison Silicon Motion Sensors

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 - 14:00 Locomotion Project Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 BBQ at Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Mark Tilden Public Lecture

    • Individual Work on Projects

Friday 10 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Masahide Nomura Modeling area MT cell response (MT-MST models)

    • 10:30 - 12:00Brad Minch To be announced (VLSI neu MOS)

    • 12:00 - 13:00 Tim Pearce Machine Olfaction

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

    • 17:00 - 18:30 AER Project Group Lecture - Arbiters I (Lecture Room)

    • 18:30 - 19:00 AER Project Group Progress Meeting (Lecture Room)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Helicopter Competition Video !

    • 19:30 - Flying Robot Discussion Group (Lecture room)

    • Individual Work on Projects

Saturday 11 July

  • Morning:

    • Christof Koch Bottom-Up and Top-Down Models of Visual Attention

    • Jim Clark Premotor theory of attention

    • Mark Tilden Robot Competition!

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • Optional overnight mountain hike

    • Individual Work on Projects

Sunday 12 July

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Review of progress

Monday 13 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Terry Sejnowski Attention and Intention in Parietal Cortex

    • 10:30 - 12:00Terry Sejnowski Oculomotor Control Systems

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • Project Groups

    • 17:00 - 18:30 AER Project Group Lecture - Arbiters II

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Attention and Motor Control Discussion Group (An aVLSI, Spike-Based Attentional System Timmer Horiuchi)

    • 21:30 - On-Chip Learning Discussion Group

    • Individual Work on Projects

Tuesday 14 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Shihab Shamma The Auditory vs. the Visual Pathway

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Andreas Andreou Energetics of Information Processing

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 - 2:00 : Locomotion Project Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 6:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

    • 17:00 - AER Project Group Research Presentations: - 1. Chuck Higgins, 2. Steve DeWeerth

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - Visual Motion Discussion Group (Chuck Higgins: "Location of Optical Flow Singular Points using an aVLSI sensor")

    • Individual Work on Projects

Wednesday 15 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Andre van Schaik Analog VLSI building blocks for an electronic auditory pathway

    • 10:30 - 12:00 Malcolm Slaney Computational Models of Audition

    • 12:30 -14:00 Attention and Motor Control Discussion Group

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • Project Groups

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • Project Groups

    • 16:00 - AER Project Group - Arbiters III & project progress discussion

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - What is Computation? Discussion Group

    • 21:30 - On-chip Learning Discussion Group

    • Individual Work on Projects

Thursday 16 July

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 10:00 Nicola Ferrier Assessing Observability of Visual Tracking Techniques

    • 10:30 - 12:00 AER Project group meeting - Arbiters IV

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:00 - 13:00 Locomotion Project Group

    • 13:00 - 14:00 Andy Wuenche "The Dynamics of Discrete Networks: Implications on Self-Organization and Memory"

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Floating Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Project Groups

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 BBQ at Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Public Lecture

    • Individual Work on Projects

Friday 17 July

  • Morning:

    • Group presentations/demos

  • Afternoon:

    • Work on project group and personal reports

    • 18:00 some ROBOT ROOM Computers ARE SHUT DOWN!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 Dinner at Leimgruber's with Award Ceremony

Saturday 18 July

  • Morning & Afternoon:

    • 12:01 ALL COMPUTERS ARE SHUT DOWN!!!

    • PACK UP and LOAD TRUCK

Sunday 19 July

Check-out and departure

Telluride 1999


Telluride 1999 Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Sven Dombrowski, - sven@hotmail.com

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, Johns Hopkins University - timmer@jhu.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason:

  • Larry Rosen, Telluride Academy - tsrc@telluridecolorado.net

Technical Personnel:

  • Alberto Pesavento, California Institute of Technology - alberto@klab.caltech.edu

  • Alessandro Usseglio Viretta, Institute for Neuroinformatics Uni/ETH Zurich - ale@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Lawrence, Institute for Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Klein, University of Maryland - djklein@isr.umd.edu

  • Jonathan Simon, Institute for Systems Research - jzsimon@isr.umd.edu

  • Jorg Kramer, Insitute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/University of Zurich - kramer@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kathrin Aguilar, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Phil Brown, University of Maryland - Neural Systems Lab - cpbrown@isr.umd.edu

  • Reid Harrison, California Institute of Technology - harrison@klab.caltech.edu

  • Theron Stanford, California Institue of Technology - theron@klab.caltech.edu

Guest Speakers:

  • Alex Pouget, University of Rochester - alex@bcs.rochester.edu

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@sedal.usyd.edu.au

  • Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University - andreou@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

  • Chris Diorio, The University of Washington - diorio@cs.washington.edu

  • Cindy Moss, UMCP - cmoss@bss3.umd.edu

  • Dan Koditschek, University of Michigan - kod@eecs.umich.edu

  • Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins - niebur@jhu.edu

  • Grace Wyngaard, - gwyngaar@nsf.gov

  • Hava Siegelman, Technion Israel Institute of Technology - iehava@ie.technion.ac.il

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Lloyd Watts, Interval Research - lwatts@interval.com

  • Mark W. Tilden, Staff Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory - mwtilden@biophysics.lanl.gov

  • Paul Hasler, Georgia Tech - phasler@ee.gatech.edu

  • Paul Verschure, INI-UNI/ETH Zurich - pfmjv@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Roy White, National Science Foundation - rwhite@nsf.gov

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH/UNIZ - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Steve DeWeerth, Georgia Tech - steve.deweerth@ee.gatech.edu

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute for Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitaet Graz - maass@igi.tu-graz.ac.at

Participants:

  • Adam Hayes, California Institute of Technology - athayes@caltech.edu

  • Andrea Caffaz, University of Genoa - DIST - caffaz@dist.unige.it

  • Ania Mitros, Caltech - ania@cns.caltech.edu

  • Antonio Torralba, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble (INPG) - torralba@lis-viallet.inpg.fr

  • Aude Oliva, Institut National Polytechnique Grenoble - oliva@lis-viallet.inpg.fr

  • Chuck Wilson, GeorgiaTech - cwilson@ece.gatech.edu

  • Chuck Higgins, University of Arizona - higgins@ece.arizona.edu

  • Clifford Knoll, Neural Systems Lab (NSL) and Intelligent Servosystems Lab (ISL) at Univ of MD, C - cknoll@isr.umd.edu

  • David Hsu, University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering - hsud@cs.washington.edu

  • Edgar Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology - ebrown@ece.gatech.edu

  • Geoffrey Barrows, Naval Research Laboratory and University of Maryland, College Park - geof@bigbird.nrl.navy.mil

  • Jeff Dugger, School of ECE -- Georgia Institute of Technology - jeffd@ece.gatech.edu

  • Jimmy Or, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. - hajimeo@dai.ed.ac.uk

  • Jorg Conradt, Technical University Berlin, Computer Engineering - jac@cs.tu-berlin.de

  • Julian Bragg, Emory School of Medicine/Georgia Institute of Technology - bragg@ece.gatech.edu

  • Kevin O'Regan, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique - oregan@ext.jussieu.fr

  • Malcolm MacIver, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - maciver@uiuc.edu

  • Manuel A. Sanchez-Montanes, Departamento de Ingenieria Informatica (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) - Manuel.Sanchez-Montanes@ii.uam.es

  • Mario Simoni, Georgia Institute of Technology - mario@ece.gatech.edu

  • Mete Erturk, Neural Systems Lab, University of Maryland - erturk@isr.umd.edu

  • Miguel Figueroa, Computer Science & Engineering - University of Washington - miguel@cs.washington.edu

  • Mitra Hartmann, Caltech - hartmann@bbb.caltech.edu

  • Nicolas Schweighofer, ERATO Kawato dynamics brain project - nicolas@erato.atr.co.jp

  • Oliver Landolt, Caltech - landolt@klab.caltech.edu

  • Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen, Research on the Neuroscience of Autism, San Diego Children's Hospital Research - olivier@salk.edu

  • Peter Paschke, Dept. of Neuroinformatics, TU Ilmenau - peter.paschke@informatik.tu-ilmenau.de

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - etienne@ece.jhu.edu

  • Stève Gyger, CSEM - steve.gyger@csem.ch

  • Tim Chapman, University of Stirling, UK - lpxtpc@psychology.nottingham.ac.uk

  • Tim Pearce, University of Leicester - t.c.pearce@leicester.ac.uk

  • Todd Hinck, Boston University - ace@vlsi.bu.edu

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

  • Vladimir Gorelik, Integrated Data Systems - vgorelik@ids-net.com

Woods Hole Participants:

  • Bob Desimone, - unknown

  • Dana Ballard, - unknown

  • Joel Davis, - unknown

  • John Allman, - unknown

  • John Maunsell, - unknown

  • Steve Zucker, - unknown

  • Ted Burger, - unknown

  • Wolfram Schultz, - unknown


Telluride 1999 Workshop Schedule



Sunday 27 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

Monday 28 June

  • Morning:

    • 8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Workshop Introduction

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Christof Koch - Caltech "Biophysics and Computation"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Rodney Douglas - Zurich "Cortical Architecture"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Project / Discussion group descriptions and begin signups!

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 Introductions by participants

Tuesday 29 June

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Chris Diorio - UWash - "Why Neuromorphic Engineering?"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Paul Verschure - Zurich - "Learning and problem solving in man, mice, and machines"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating Gate, Basic aVLSI joint tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Locomotion Project Group

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Computer Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 VLSI Rm. - AER Project Group

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 18:30 Robot Rm. - Behaving Robots Project Group Organizational Meeting

    • 20:30 - 21:30 Lecture Rm. - R. Douglas, P. Verschure - Zurich - Expo2001: The Ultimate neuromorphic challenge.

Wednesday 30 June

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Alex Pouget - URochester - "Nonlinear Computation and Noise Filtering Using Population Codes

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Kwabena Boahen - UPenn - "Morphing the Retina"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating Gates

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Auditory Processing

    • 16:00 - 18:00 VLSI Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture Rm. - AER

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 19:00 Lecture Rm. - Olfaction Project Group

    • 19:00 - ? Lecture Rm. - Computation discussion group

Thursday 1 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00- 10:30 - Avis Cohen - UMaryland "The Wetware Associated with Locomotion Including the Neural and Mechanical Underpinnings"

    • 11:00- 12:30 - Hava Siegelman - Technion

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 Meet at Telluride Sports for river rafting.

    • 14:00 - 18:00 - RIVER RAFTING !!

  • Evening:

    • 17:30 - BBQ! - in the central grassy knoll at the Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Public Lecture at the schoolhouse - Rodney Douglas
      Projects! Yeay!

Friday 2 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00- 10:30 - Shihab Shamma - UMaryland

    • 11:00- 12:30 - Lloyd Watts - Interval Research - "Reverse engineering the auditory pathway"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating Gates

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - AER

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Locomotion

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture Rm. - Basic aVLSI

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 18:30 Lecture Rm. - SPIKE: The simulator. (Lloyd Watts, Interval Research)

    • 18:30 - 19:00 Lecture Rm. - Olfaction Project Group

    • 19:00 - 20:30 Lecture Rm. - Discussion: How much do you morph?

    • 20:30 - 22:00 Lecture Rm. - Discussion: "Neuromorphic consciousness: Attention, selection, and awareness in organisms and artefacts"

Saturday 3 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Rodney Douglas - Zurich

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Wolfgang Maass - Graz - "Neural Systems as Nonlinear Filters"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - @Deep Creek Art Studio: 4th of July Preparation

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating Gates

    • 16:00 - 17:30 Lecture: Mark Tilden

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Lecture Rm. - Lloyd Watts (Interval Research) - "Can neuromorphic engineering make an impact on industry?"

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Lecture Rm. - Auditory Group: Cochlea Tutorial
      Prepare for the 4th of July Parade tomorrow!

Sunday 4 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - Parade Start Prepare for the parade!

    • Afternoon: .................Free time.............

  • Evening: - FIREWORKS ---

Monday 5 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Steve DeWeerth - Georgia Tech - "Neuromorphic VLSI circuits for motion pattern generation and intersegmental coordination"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Andre van Schaik - USyd - "Sound localization: From psychophysics to chips"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Locomotion

    • 14:00 - 16:00 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating-Gate Tutoria

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Lecture Rm. - Computation Discussion Group l

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Terry's MBL Group - John Allman

Tuesday 6 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Ernst Niebur - Johns Hopkins University - Modeling Selective Attention

    • 11:0 0- 12:30 - Terry Sejnowski - Salk - Unsupervised Learning in Visual Cortex

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating-Gate Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - Basic aVLSI Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture Rm. - Auditory Group: Pitch Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 18:00 VLSI Rm.. - AER Design

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Terry's MBL Group - Christof Koch

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Lecture Rm. - How Much Do You Morph? - Discussion Group Projects! Yeay!

Wednesday 7 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Ted Berger (TS-MBL) - USC

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Andreas Andreou - Johns Hopkins - "Energy and Information Processing in Silicon and Biological Systems"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Floating-Gate Tutorial

    • 16:00 - 17:00 VLSI Rm. - Inter-chip Communication Project Group (progress report)

    • 17:00 - 18:00 Computer Rm. - aVLSI Pattern Generation Lecture

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Terry's MBL Group - Steve Zucker Projects! Yeay!

Thursday 8 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Wolfram Schultz (TS-MBL) - Fribourg

    • 11:00- 12:30 - Dan Koditschek - UMich - "Programming machines that work"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Auditory Group: Cortical Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - Locomotio

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture Rm. - Geof Barrows - NRL - "Mixed-mode optic flow sensors for micro air vehicle navigation"

  • Evening:

    • 17:30 - BBQ! - in the central grassy knoll at the Telluride Lodge

    • 19:00 Terry's MBL Group - Rodney Douglas

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Public Lecture at the schoolhouse - Mark Tilden Projects! Yeay!

Friday 9 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Bob Desimone (TS-MBL) - NIHM

    • 1:00- 12:30 - John Maunsell (TS-MBL) - Baylor

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 15:00 - Lecture Rm- Workshop Progress reports !!!

    • 15:00 - 16:00 - Lecture Rm. - Locomotion

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Lecture Rm. - Computation Discussion Group

    • 18:00 - 20:00 - Lecture Rm. - Neurobiology Tutorial (Steve Zucker - TS-MBL)

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Terry's MBL Group - Avis Cohen

    • 20:00 - 22:00 - Lecture Rm. - How Much Do You Morph? Discussion Group

Saturday 10 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00- 10:30 - Dana Ballard (TS-MBL) - Rochester

    • 11:00- 12:30 - Tim Pearce - ULeicester "Machine Olfaction"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 VLSI Rm. AER Design

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Terry's MBL Group - Shihab Shamma Projects! Yeay!

Sunday 11 July

  • Morning:

    • free day ---

  • Afternoon:

    • free day ---

  • Evening:

    • free day ---

Monday 12 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Nicolas Schweighofer - ERATO -"Chaos in the inferior olive and cerebellar learning"

    • 11:00- 12:30 - Mitra Hartmann - Caltech - "Active somatosensation and the cerebellum"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Locomotion

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Computer Rm. - AER Design

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture Rm. - Computation Discussion

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Lecture Rm. - Oliver Landolt - "Representation and computation using place coding in analog VLSI"
      Projects! Yeay!

Tuesday 13 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Cindy Moss - UMaryland - "A glimpse of the world through the ears of the bat: Information
      processing, perception and feedback control."

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Shih-Chii Liu - Zurich - "Normalization in the fly visual system"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 15:30 Jordan Cohen (Dragon Systems)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture Rm. - Auditory Group - Cortical Models

  • Evening:

    • Projects! Yeay!

Wednesday 14 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Chuck Higgins - Caltech - "Silicon Motion Sensors"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Tobi Delbruck - Zurich - "Silicon Retinas for Occupancy Detection, Door Openers, and Autofocusing"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 Computer Rm. - Basic aVLSI

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Computer Rm. - AER Design

  • Evening:

    • Projects! Yeay!

Thursday 15 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 - Kevin O'Regan - CNRS - "Blindness to changes in visual scenes, and a theory of visual experience

    • 11:00 - 12:30 - Ralph Etienne-Cummings - Johns Hopkins - "Oriented Spatiotemporal Filters for Visual Motion Detection"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 VLSI Rm. - Locomotion

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Lecture Rm. - Interchip Communication

  • Evening:

    • 17:30 - BBQ! - in the central grassy area at the Telluride Lodge

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Public Lecture at the schoolhouse - Christof Koch Projects! Yeay!

Friday 16 July

  • Morning:

    • Project and Discussion Group Presentations!

  • Afternoon:

    • Project and Discussion Group Presentations!

  • Evening:

    • Farewell Party! - food! beverages! skits! awards! Meet @ Leimgrubers (Davis & Pacific St.)

Saturday 17 July

  • Morning:

    • Pack up stuff!

  • Afternoon:

    • Load truck with stuff!

  • Evening:

    • rest...

Sunday 18 July

  • Morning:

    • Truck leaves for Pasadena!


Telluride 2000


Telluride 2000 Participants



Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland - timmer@isr.umd.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason:

  • Larry Rosen, Telluride Academy - academy@telluridecolorado.net

  • Jennifer Kinetz, Tellruide Academy - tsrc@telluridecolorado.net

Technical Personnel:

  • Alberto Pesavento, California Institute of Technology - alberto@klab.caltech.edu

  • Ania Mitros, Caltech - ania@cns.caltech.edu

  • Clifford Knoll, Neural Systems Lab (NSL) and Intelligent Servosystems Lab (ISL) at Univ of MD, C - cknoll@isr.umd.edu

  • Constanze Hofstoetter, Institute of Neuroinformatics - connie@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Klein, University of Maryland - djklein@isr.umd.edu

  • David Lawrence, Institute of Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kathrin Aguilar Ruiz-Hofacker, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Mete Erturk, Neural Systems Lab, University of Maryland - erturk@isr.umd.edu

  • Mitra Hartmann, Caltech - hartmann@bbb.caltech.edu

  • Pam White, Maryland - pwhite@isr.umd.edu

  • Ulysses Bernardet , Institute of Neuroinformatics - ulysses@ini.phys.ethz.ch

Guest Speakers:

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@ee.usyd.edu.au

  • Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University - andreou@jhu.edu

  • Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eebert@ee.ust.hk

  • Brad Minch, - minch@anise.ee.cornell.edu

  • Chuck Higgins, University of Arizona - higgins@ece.arizona.edu

  • Cindy Moss, UMCP - cmoss@psyc.umd.edu

  • Dan Hammerstrom, Oregon Graduate Institute - strom@ece.ogi.edu

  • Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins - niebur@jhu.edu

  • Gert Cauwenberghs, Johns Hopkins University - gert@bach.ece.jhu.edu

  • Hava Siegelmann, Technion - iehava@ie.technion.ac.il

  • Jeff Dean, Cleveland State - j.dean@csuohio.edu

  • Jorg Kramer, Insitute of Neuroinformatics - kramer@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Lloyd Watts, Interval Research - lwatts@interval.com

  • Mark W. Tilden, Los Alamos National Laboratory - mwtilden@biophysics.lanl.gov

  • Marwan Jabri, Oregon Graduate Institute - marwan@ece.ogi.edu

  • Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology - phasler@ee.gatech.edu

  • Rajit Manohar, Cornell - rajit@csl.cornell.edu

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - etienne@ece.jhu.edu

  • Shane Guillory, Bionic Technologies, Inc - shane@bionictech.com

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Stefano Fusi, Physiologisches Institut, University of Bern - fusi@cns.unibe.ch

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

  • Vittorio Dante, National Institute of Health , Physics Laboratory - dante@iss.infn.it

Applicants:

  • Abhishek Bandyopadhyay, Johns Hopkins University - abandyo@bme.jhu.edu

  • Adria Bofill, Department of Electronics, The University of Edinburgh - Adria.Bofill@ee.ed.ac.uk

  • Brian Taba, University of Pennsylvania - btaba@seas.upenn.edu

  • Craig Jin, - craigj@physiol.usyd.edu.au

  • Daljeet Gill, - dsg4@leicester.ac.uk

  • David Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University - goldberg@jhu.edu

  • Dennis Barbour, - dbarbour@bme.jhu.edu

  • Elena Grassi, University of Maryland, Institute for Systems Research - grassi@isr.umd.edu

  • Elisabetta Chicca, Institute of Neuroinformatics - chicca@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Eros Pasero, - pasero@polito.it

  • Hans-H. Bothe, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) - hans_tell@yahoo.com

  • Jim Belanger, Dept of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University - jimb@lsu.edu

  • Joaquin Sitte, Queensland University of Technology - j.sitte@qut.edu.au

  • Julian Bragg, Emory School of Medicine/Georgia Institute of Technology - bragg@ece.gatech.edu

  • Kai Hynna, University of Pennsylvnia - kmhynna@neuroengineering.upenn.edu

  • Kareem Zaghloul, University of Pennsylvania - zaghloul@mail.med.upenn.edu

  • Matt Kucic, - gt5417a@prism.gatech.edu

  • Michele Giugliano, N.B.T. - Neural and Bioelectronic Technologies Group - Department of Biophysical - michi@dibe.unige.it

  • Ofer Melamed, - cofer@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il

  • Olivier Coenen, Research on the Neuroscience of Autism, San Diego Children's Hospital Research - olivier@salk.edu

  • Paul Smith, - pds@ee.gatech.edu

  • Philip Leong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong - phwl@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

  • Reza Nezafat, Johns Hopkins University - rnezafat@jhmi.edu

  • Richard Hahnloser, - rh@ai.mit.edu

  • Richard Reeve, University of Stirling - richardr@dai.ed.ac.uk

  • Simona Doboli, Dept. of ECECS, University of Cincinnati - sdoboli@ececs.uc.edu

  • Socrates Deligeorges, Boston University - sgd@bu.edu

  • Sudhir Korrapati, - sudhir@neuromorph.ece.arizona.edu

  • Terry Elliott, University of Southampton - te@ecs.soton.ac.uk

  • Thomas Lu, - tlu@bme.jhu.edu

  • Uri Gordon, - guri@alice.nc.huji.ac.il

  • Yael Niv, Tel Aviv University - yaeln@cns.tau.ac.il

  • Zibing Yang, VLSI lab, Boston University - yzb@bu.edu


Telluride 2000 Workshop Schedule



Sunday 25 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 Welcome reception @ front steps of high school

    • 19:30 Tour of the workshop facilities (@ the schoolhouse)

Monday 26 June

Hosts: Giacomo and Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Workshop Staff Introduction - Descriptions of workshop

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Andre van Schaik "The Many Faces of Neuromorphic Engineering"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Everybody Workgroup organizational meeting

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Everybody Discussion-group organizational meeting

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Shihab Shamma Evening tutorial ("Visual, auditory pathways and basic physiology.")

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Individual Introductions: Be prepared to say who you are and what you'd like to do here!

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Tuesday 27 June

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Rodney Douglas Evening tutorial ("BASIC Neuron Physiology")

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 22:00 -

Wednesday 28 June

Host: Avis

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Rodney Douglas Cortex + neurons

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Stefano Fusi IT and working memory

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 AER Workgroup Tutorial: "What is AER?"

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial Pre-Introduction and Transistor Properties

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 15:30 - 16:30 Hearing Workgroup

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Avis Cohen Tutorial: "Muscle and basic vertebrate movement"

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 20:45 Everybody Discussion-group organizational meeting and sign-up

    • 20:45 - Vision Chips Workgroup Tutorial (Bert Shi): Vision Chip Basics

Thursday 29 June

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 20:00 Everybody BBQ!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Mark Tilden Public Lecture: "If this is the future, Where's my robot?"

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workgroup

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Friday 30 June

Host: Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Avis Cohen Segmental Locomotion

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Jeff Dean Legged Locomotion

    • 12:30-13:30 Bring your creativity! 4th of July Planning session -- see Cliff Knoll

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 AER Workgroup Tutorial: "How to Design Asynchronous Logic"

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Roving Robots Workgroup Interfacing analog sensors and controlling Koala using C

    • 17:30 - Basketball On the other side of town -- contact Richard Hahnloser for details.

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 22:30 - Roving Robots Workgroup Tutorial: Khepera MATLAB interface

Saturday 1 July

Host: Rodney

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Brad Minch Floating Gate Translinear Circuits

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Paul Hasler Floating Gate learning networks?

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Stefano Fusi Synaptic plasticity in networks of VLSI spiking neurons

Monday 3 July

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Rodney Douglas Computation and neural networks

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Hava Siegelman Analog computing

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication Workgoup Lecture (Kwabena Boahen): Mixed Analog-Digital Design

    • 15:00 - ***Parade Preparation*** @Pam Joline's Studio: 216 Colorado Ave

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Tony Lewis Legged locomotion and coordination

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Discussion Technologies for neuromorphic implementation (in Coffee room)

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Tuesday 4 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 12:30 Everybody Dress-up and rehearse for the PARADE!

Fourth of July Parade!

Wednesday 5 July

Host: Avis

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication Workgoup Lecture (Rajit Manohar): Arbitration

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Mitra Hartmann Rat whiskers and sensory acquisition

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workgroup Tobi Delbruck: Adaptive Phototransduction in Silicon

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Thursday 6 July

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Bert Shi Visual Processing Chips

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Chuck Higgins "Vision Architectures for Biomimetic Autonomous Robotics"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 16:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 19:00 Everybody BBQ!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Dan Hammerstrom Public Lecture: "Seeking inspiration from the brain for building better computers"

    • 21:00 - 22:00? Vision Chips Workgroup Project Update and Discussion in Lecture Room

    • 21:00 - 22:00? Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 22:30 - Discussion Group Synaptic Placticity

Friday 7 July

Host: Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Andreas Andreou "Neural and Neuromoprhic Information Processing: A Devil's Advocate Perspective"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Ralph Etienne-Cummings "From Neuromorphic to Computer Vision: Where does Hardware Realization Fit?"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Interchip Communication Workgroup Discussion on AER protocols and boards.

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Group

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Tobi Delbruck An active sensory floor

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Roving Robots Group Partial project report

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Saturday 8 July

Host: Avis

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Giacomo Indiveri Winner Take All Networks

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Olivier Coenen Learning Representations in the Cerebellum

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Monday 10 July

Host: Rodney

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 14:00 - 16:00 DARPA demo

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gates Workgroup

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Elisabetta Chicca On-chip stochastic learning demo

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Tuesday 11 July

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Jim Belanger "What neuroethology can offer to neuromorphic engineering"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Marwan Jabri "Predictive Sensorimotor Control" "Independent Components of Self-Motion Optical Flow"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 16:30 Yael Niv "Evolution of Reinforcment Learning in Foraging Bees"

    • 16:45 - 17:30 Hava Siegelman "A new learning algorithm for heirarchical cluster analysis of any rich shape"

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Andreas Andreou "SOS! Our CMOS chips can't see anymore! But we can see through!"

  • Evening:

    • 20:30 - 21:30 Roving Robots Workgroup Progress Report

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Wednesday 12 July

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Richard Andersen

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Cindy Moss Bat Echolocation Physiology

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Locomotion Workgroup

    • 14:30 - 15:30 Andy Wuensche Coding in very simple dynamical networks

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Bob Desimone

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workgroup

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Thursday 13 July

Host: Rodney

  • Morning:

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Everybody Write workgroup reports!

    • 14:30 - 15:30 John Allman "Anterior Cingulate and Decision Processes"

    • 15:00 - 16:30 Everybody Write workgroups reports!

    • 17:30 - 19:00 Everybody BBQ!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Rodney Douglas & Tobi Delbruck Public Lecture: "ADA: Intelligent Space"

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Friday 14 July

Host: Rodney

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Steven Zucker

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Dana Ballard "Distributed synchrony: A spike timing model of neural communication"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 You Project Presentations!

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Everybody Workshop Dinner @ RUSTICO!

Saturday 15 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - EVERYONE FINAL SCHOOL CLEANING AND PACKING!

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Mary Hayhoe

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Terry Sejnowski

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 18:30 Everybody Final School cleaning and packing

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Everybody Party!

Sunday 16 July

Check out of the condos (10:30 am)


Telluride 2001


Telluride 2001 Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland - timmer@isr.umd.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason:

  • Larry Rosen, Telluride Academy - academy@telluridecolorado.net

Technical Personnel:

  • Alberto Pesavento, California Institute of Technology - alberto@klab.caltech.edu

  • Ania Mitros, Caltech - ania@cns.caltech.edu

  • Constanze Hofstoetter, Institute of Neuroinformatics - connie@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Lawrence, Institute of Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Jorg Kramer, Insitute of Neuroinformatics - kramer@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kathrin Aguilar Ruiz-Hofacker, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Matt Cheely, University of Maryland - mcheely@isr.umd.edu

  • Pam White, Maryland - pwhite@isr.umd.edu

Guest Speakers:

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@ee.usyd.edu.au

  • Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Instituto Microelectronica Sevilla - bernabe@imse.cnm.es

  • Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eebert@ee.ust.hk

  • Brad Minch, Cornell University - minch@ece.cornell.edu

  • Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins - niebur@jhu.edu

  • Gert Cauwenberghs, Johns Hopkins University - gert@jhu.edu

  • Hiroshi Kimura, The University of Electro-Communications - hiroshi@moa.kimura.is.uec.ac.jp

  • Jeff Dugger, School of ECE -- Georgia Institute of Technology - jeffd@ece.gatech.edu

  • Jochen Braun, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Plymouth - jbraun@plymouth.ac.uk

  • Jonathan Simon, University of Maryland - jzsimon@eng.umd.edu

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Mark Blanchard, Institute of Neuroinformatics - jmb@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Mark W. Tilden, Los Alamos National Laboratory - mwtilden@biophysics.lanl.gov

  • Mitra Hartmann, Caltech - hartmann@bbb.caltech.edu

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - etienne@ece.jhu.edu

  • Reid Harrison, University of Utah - harrison@ee.utah.edu

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Steve DeWeerth, Georgia Tech - steve.deweerth@ece.gatech.edu

  • Steven Greenberg, International Computer Science Institute - steveng@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

  • Vittorio Dante, Italian National Institute of Health , Physics Laboratory - dante@iss.infn.it

Computational Neuroscience Workshop:

  • Bob Desimone, NIH - Desimonr@INTRA.NIMH.nih.gov

  • Dana Ballard, Rochester - dana@cs.rochester.edu

  • Emo Todorov, - emo@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk

  • Harvey Karten, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego - hjkarten@ucsd.edu

  • John Allman, Caltech - cebus@caltech.edu

  • John Maunsell, HHMI/Baylor College of Medicine - Maunsell@bcm.tmc.edu

  • Mike Graziano, - graziano@Princeton.EDU

  • Mike Stryker, - Stryker@phy.ucsf.edu

  • Steve Zucker, Yale - zucker@cs.yale.edu

Applicants:

  • Alejandro Linares-Barranco, - linares@imse.cnm.es

  • Bo Wen, - bwen@neuroengineering.upenn.edu

  • Christal Gordon, - cgordon@ece.gatech.edu

  • Dmitry Zotkin, University of Maryland at College Park - dz@cs.umd.edu

  • Duane Edgington, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) - duane@mbari.org

  • Eugenio Culurciello, Johns Hopkins University - euge@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

  • Farid Boussaid, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY - f.boussaid@ecu.edu.au

  • Giovanni Indiveri, GMD-AiS - Giovanni.Indiveri@gmd.de

  • Herbert Peremans, Universiteit Antwerpen - Herbert.Peremans@ufsia.ac.be

  • Iyad Obeid, Duke University - io@duke.edu

  • Jay Zimmermann, - jaspersky@excite.com

  • John Arthur, - jarthur@neuroengineering.upenn.edu

  • John Hallam, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh - john@dai.ed.ac.uk

  • Justin Werfel, - jkwerfel@mit.edu

  • Kai Hynna, University of Pennsylvnia - kmhynna@seas.upenn.edu

  • Kaushik Ghose, University of Maryland, College Park - kghose@wam.umd.edu

  • Matthew Clapp, - mclapp@jhu.edu

  • Mattia Frasca, - mfrasca@dees.unict.it

  • Mike Arnold, University of Sydney, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences - mikea@salk.edu

  • Mike Reid, Georgia Tech - mreid@ece.gatech.edu

  • Mounya Elhilali, Institute for Systems Research/Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - mounya@eng.umd.edu

  • Neeraj (Raj) Gandhi, Baylor College of Medicine - ngandhi@bcm.tmc.edu

  • Paul Merolla, Upenn - pmerolla@seas.upenn.edu

  • Richard Reeve, University of Stirling - richardr@dai.ed.ac.uk

  • Rolf Mueller, University of Tuebingen - rolf.mueller@uni-tuebingen.de

  • Roman Genov, - roman@jhu.edu

  • Ross Snider, Montana State University - rosss@ee.montana.edu

  • Sunny Bains, Open University - sunny@sunnybains.com

  • Viktor Gruev, - vg@jhu.edu

  • Virginia Best, University of Sydney, Australia - ginbest@physiol.usyd.edu.au

  • Vlatko Becanovic, - becanovic@gmd.de

  • Yoichiro Endo, Mobile Robot Lab, Georgia Tech - endo@cc.gatech.edu

  • Yu Wing Choi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eethomas@ust.hk


Telluride 2001 Workshop Schedule


Sunday 1 July

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 Welcome reception @ elementary school

    • 19:30 Tour of the workshop facilities (@ the schoolhouse)

Monday 2 July

Hosts: Giacomo and Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Workshop Staff Introduction - Descriptions of workshop

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Shihab Shamma Neuromorphic Engineering

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 17:30 Everybody Workgroup organizational meeting

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Giacomo Indiveri Evening tutorial ("Neuromorphic Engineering: why use VLSI?")

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Individual Introductions

Tuesday 3 July

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Shihab Shamma Introduction to Auditory Processing

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Andre van Schaik Human Sound Localization

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15.30 Everybody Discussion-group organizational meeting

    • 16:30 - 17:30 Everybody Parade Construction

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Christof Koch Biophysics of Computation

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Christof Koch Tutorial on Computation

Wednesday 4 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 12:30 Everybody Dress-up and rehearse for the PARADE!

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Avis Cohen Introduction to Neuroscience

    • 19:30 - 20:30 Vision Chips Workshop (Organizational Meeting)

    • 18:30 - Lego/Roving Robots

Fourth of July Parade!


Thursday 5 July

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Avis Cohen Introduction to Motor Systems

    • 11:00 -12:30 Christof Koch

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15.30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15.30 - 17:30 Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Learning Discussion group

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Friday 6 July

Host: Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Steve DeWeerth "Neuromorphic VLSI motor control"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Bernabe Linares-Barranco "CMOS Transistor Mismatch Modeling, Characterization and Simulation"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Behavioral Robots Discussion Group

    • 15.30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop

    • 15.30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:00 - 20:00 Everybody BBQ!

    • 18:30 - 20:00 Lego/Roving Robots

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Sunny Bains "Physical Computation and 'Big' AI"

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workshop: Bernabe Linares-Barranco "AER Convolution Chips"

Saturday 7 July

Host: Christof

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Brad Minch Floating Gate Translinear Circuits

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Jeff Dugger

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

Monday 9 July

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

    • 7:30 - 9:00 Brad Minch Attention and Selection Discussion Group

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Bert Shih "Coupled nonlinear spring/mass systems in warped space-time:
      A lingua franca for circuit designers and biologists?"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Reid Harrison "Motion Detection in Analog VLSI: Of Mice and Flies"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Behavioral Robots discussion group (Bring Lunch)

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Neuron and Chip Interfaces

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 18:30 - Commercial Applications of Neuromorphic Engineering Discussion (meet in Computer Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Lego/Roving Robots: Giovanni Indiveri "Motion Control Issues for Underactuated Robots"

    • 21:00 - 22:00 Vision Chips Workshop: Vlatko Becanovic "Gaze shifting with a silicon retina"

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Tuesday 10 July

Host: Avis

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Ralph Etienne-Cummings "Time Domain Imaging and Color Segmentation"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Steven Greenberg "What are the essential cues for understanding spoken language?"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Attention and Selection Discussion Group

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

    • 17:30 - Avis Cohen "Continuation of Motor Systems"

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Learning Discussion group

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Vision Chips Workshop: Kwabena Boahen "A retinomorphic chip with four ganglion-cell types"

    • 21:00 - AER Standarization discussion group

Wednesday 11 July

Host: Christof

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Ernst Niebur "Selective Attention"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Jochen Braun

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Behavioral Robots discussion group

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop 2D Array Interfaces

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop: Mattia Frasca "Bio-inspired robots with cellular neural networks" (30min)

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 18:30 - Commercial Applications of Neuromorphic Engineering Discussion (meet in Computer Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Vision Chips Workshop Bert Shi "Tellegen's theorem and stationary cocontent principles"

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Thursday 12 July

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Kwabena Boahen "Learning where to go: Anatomical plasticity in silicon"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Shih-chii Liu "The past, present, and future of silicon neuronal chips"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Attention and Selection Discussion Group (Bring Lunch) Ernst Neibur "The role of neuronal synchrony in selective attention."

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

    • 17:00 - 19:00 Everybody BBQ!

    • 19:00 - Bert Shi "Orientation Selective Filtering in aVLSI"

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Mark Tilden Public Lecture: "2001: The Legacy of HAL 9000:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Learning Discussion group

Friday 13 July

Host: Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Hiroshi Kimura "Adaptive dynamic walking of a quadruped robot - Sensory feedback to CPG "

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Tony Lewis "From Neurons to Visumotor Behavior"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 2:00 Sunny Bains "Clarification re. noise and Super-Turing Computation"

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop Arbitration and Pipelineing

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Tobi Delbruck Expo!

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - 20:30 Partial project report

    • 20:35 - CINEMA!!!

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Saturday 14 July

Host: Avis

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Rolf MĂĽller "Biosonar in the Bat's World"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Gert Cauwenberghs "Vapnik, Bayes, and silicon"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 13:30 Roman Genov "VLSI array for massively parallel kernel computation"

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 17:30 - 19:00 Andy Wuensche Demo of Discrete Dynamics Lab

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Everybody Discussion-group discussions

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Monday 16 July

Host: Christof

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Tobi Delbruck "The Physiologist's Friend"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Mark Tilden ToyTech: Idealism, Frustration, and Betrayal

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Behavioral Robots discussion group (Bring Lunch)

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop: Kai Hynna "Fan-out Implementation in AER"

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 18:30 - Commercial Applications of Neuromorphic Engineering Discussion (meet in Computer Room)

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Vision Chips Workshop: Mark Blanchard + Kynan Eng "Description of IQR and the control system of Gulliver"

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Tuesday 17 July

Host: Giacomo

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Jonathan Simon "Constrained Neural Circuitry in Auditory Cortex"

    • 11:00 - 12:00 Mark Blanchard "How locusts avoid being lunch"

    • 12:00 - 12:30 Kynan Eng "Expo: System Integration"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 13:30 Behavioral Robots discussion group (Bring Lunch)

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Floating Gate Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Auditory/Hearing Electronics Workshop

    • 16:00 - 17:30 John Allman "Anterior Cingulate Cortex: An Interface Between Emotion and Cognition"

    • 19:00 - 20:30 Christof Koch "Recording Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe"

    • 20:30 - 21:15 Ernst Niebur "The Mind of A Worm (The mental world of nematodes)"

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Learning Discussion group

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Wednesday 18 July

Host: Shihab

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Mike Graziano The Cortical Control of Movement

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Emo Todorov "Motor noise, trajectory variability, and optimal control
      in systems with redundant degrees of freedom"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 15:30 aVLSI Tutorial

    • 13:30 - 15:30 Interchip Communication (AER) Workshop: Giacomo Indiveri "Multiple-sender, multiple-reciever AER protocol"

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Locomotion Workshop

    • 15:30 - 17:30 Biosonar Workshop

    • 17:30 - 18:30 Biosensing Workshop

    • 18:30 - Commercial Applications of Neuromorphic Engineering Discussion (meet in Computer Room)

    • 19:00 - 500 Million Years of Experience: Biology of Bug Detectors and Neuromorphic Engineering

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - AER Standardization Discussion Group

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Thursday 19 July

Host: Christof

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 John Maunsell The role of attention in sensory processing

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Dana Ballard What do we mean by `attention'?

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 You Project Presentations!

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Everybody Write workgroups reports!

    • 17:00 - 19:00 Everybody BBQ!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Public Lecture: Cristof Koch "How Can We Study How Consciousness Originates in the Brain"

    • 21:30 - Shihab Shamma "Common principles in auditory and visual processing"

    • 20:00 - Lego/Roving Robots

    • 20:00 - Learning Discussion group

    • 22:00 - Everybody Workgroup work

Friday 20 July

Host: Christof

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Mike Stryker While the kittens were sleeping: Brain plasticity

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Terry Sejnowski While you were sleeping: Memory consolidation

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 You Project Presentations!

    • 16:00 - 18:00 Everybody Write workgroups reports!

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - Computer Network Goes Down!

    • 19:00 - Everybody The last supper: Workshop Final Dinner!

Saturday 21 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Bob Desimone How the brain pays attention

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Steve Zucker What is the Formal Computation in Early Vision?

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 18:30 Everybody Final School cleaning and packing

    • 19:00 - 20:00 Avis Cohen "Lamprey central pattern generators and the solution to the binding problem

Sunday 22 July

Check out of the condos (10:30 am)

Telluride 2002


Telluride 2002 Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland - timmer@isr.umd.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason:

  • Larry Rosen, Telluride Academy - academy@telluridecolorado.net

Technical Personnel:

  • Constanze Hofstoetter, Institute of Neuroinformatics - connie@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • David Lawrence, Institute of Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Edgar Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology - ebrown@ece.gatech.edu

  • Jorg Kramer, Insitute of Neuroinformatics - kramer@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kathrin Aguilar Ruiz-Hofacker, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Matt Cheely, University of Maryland - mcheely@isr.umd.edu

  • Pam White, Maryland - pwhite@isr.umd.edu

  • Richard Reeve, University of Stirling - richardr@dai.ed.ac.uk

  • Vittorio Dante, Italian National Institute of Health , Physics Laboratory - dante@iss.infn.it

Guest Speakers:

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@ee.usyd.edu.au

  • Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University - andreou@jhu.edu

  • Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eebert@ee.ust.hk

  • Bruno Olshausen, UC Davis - baolshausen@ucdavis.edu

  • Cindy Moss, UMCP - cmoss@psyc.umd.edu

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Larry Jackel, Darpa - larry.jackel@att.net

  • Mark W. Tilden, Institute for Physical Sciences/Hasbro Toys R&D; - mwtilden@wowwee.com.hk

  • Mitra Hartmann, Caltech - hartmann@brain.jpl.nasa.gov

  • Paolo Del Giudice, Italian National Institute of Health , Physics Laboratory - paolo.delgiudice@iss.infn.it

  • Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology - phasler@ee.gatech.edu

  • Rajesh Rao, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington - rao@cs.washington.edu

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - retienne@isr.umd.edu

  • Reid Harrison, University of Utah - harrison@ece.utah.edu

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Stefano Fusi, Physiologisches Institut, University of Bern - fusi@cns.unibe.ch

  • Steve DeWeerth, Georgia Tech - steve.deweerth@ece.gatech.edu

  • Steven Greenberg, International Computer Science Institute - steveng@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

  • Tony Zador, CSHL - zador@cshl.org

Computational Neuroscience Workshop:

  • Barry Richmond, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH/NIH - bjr@ln.nimh.nih.gov

  • David Fitzpatrick, - fitzpat@neuro.duke.edu

  • Harvey Karten, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego - hjkarten@ucsd.edu

  • John Allman, Caltech - cebus@caltech.edu

  • Michael Stryker, UCSF - Stryker@phy.ucsf.edu

  • Sidney Lehky, RIKEN Brain Science Institute - sidney@postman.riken.go.jp

  • Steve Zucker, Yale - zucker@cs.yale.edu

Applicants:

  • Dan Matthias, Private Company/Investor - dmatthias@motherswork.com

  • David Graham, Georgia Institute of Technology - dgraham@ece.gatech.edu

  • Deborah S. Won, Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Duke University - dsw9@duke.edu

  • Dino P. Massoglia, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine - dmassog@wfubmc.edu

  • Dirk Walther, Caltech - walther@caltech.edu

  • Dmitry Zotkin, University of Maryland at College Park - dz@cs.umd.edu

  • Dominique Martinez, INRIA Lorraine 615 Rue du Jardin Botanique F-54600 Villers-Les-Nancy - dmartine@loria.fr

  • Duane Edgington, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) - duane@mbari.org

  • Eduardo Torres-Jara, MIT - etorresj@ai.mit.edu

  • Elisabetta Chicca, Institute of Neuroinformatics - chicca@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Ethan Farquhar, Georgia Inst. of Technology - farquhar@ece.gatech.edu

  • Francesco Tenore, Johns Hopkins Univ. - fra@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

  • Hisako Shiraishi, University of Sydney - hisako@sedal.usyd.edu.au

  • Ille C. Gebeshuber, University of Technology, Vienna - ille@iap.tuwien.ac.at

  • Jaideep Mavoori, University of Washington, Seattle - jaideep@washington.edu

  • Jean-Christophe Zufferey, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Jean-Christophe.Zufferey@epfl.ch

  • Joe Bird, Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP - jbird@bradleyarant.com

  • John Henry Wittig Jr, Dept. of Bioengineering, Univ. of Pennsylvania - jwittig@seas.upenn.edu

  • Jorg Conradt, Institute of Neuroinformatics - conradt@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Lance F. Tammero, Dept. of Bioengineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley - lancet@socrates.berkeley.edu

  • Laurent Perrinet, CERT, Toulouse (F) - Laurent.Perrinet@laposte.net

  • Luciana Carota, Aquila University ITALY - luciana@operamail.com

  • Michael Sorensen, Biomedical Eng. Dept., Georgia Inst. of Technology - sorensen@ece.gatech.edu

  • Nici Schraudolph, ETH Zurich - schraudo@inf.ethz.ch

  • Paulina Varshavskaya, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology - paulina@ai.mit.edu

  • Pedro Julian, University of California, Berkeley - pjulian@ieee.org

  • Ricardo Chavarriaga, EPFL/LCN Switzerland - ricardo.chavarriaga@epfl.ch

  • Samuel Zahnd, Institute of Neuroinformatics - sam@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Swati Mehta, Johns Hopkins University - swatim@jhu.edu

  • Tsang Kong Chau, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eeeric@ust.hk

  • Tsvi Achler, University of Illinois - achler@uiuc.edu

  • Yoichi Miyawaki, RIKEN Brain Science Inst. - miyawaki@bsp.brain.riken.go.jp

Telluride 2002 Workshop Schedule


Sunday 30 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 17:00 Welcome reception @ elementary school

    • 19:00 Tour of the workshop facilities (@ the schoolhouse)

Monday 1 July

Hosts: Giacomo and Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Rodney Douglas and Christof Koch Introduction and description of workshop and expectations

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Shih Chii Liu - "Neuromorphic Engineering"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 18:00 Everybody Workgroup organizational meeting

    • 18:30 - 19:30

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 - Introductions by applicants

Tuesday 2 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Christof Koch - "Computing with single neurons"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Rodney Douglas

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 14:00 - Auditory Group

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 15:00 - Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 17:00 - Visual Saliency Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 18:00 - Vision Chip Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 19:00 - Online Learning Workgroup

    • 19:00 - 20:00 - Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30 : Giacomo Indiveri - "Winner take all circuits for models of selective attention"

Wednesday 3 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Avis Cohen - "CPGs and motor control in vertebrates"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Ralph Etienne-Cummings - "Computational Visual Sensors"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 14:00 - Auditory Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Locmotion Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Floating Gate Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 19:00 - Learning Workgroup

    • 19:00 - 20:00 - Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30 : Shihab Shamma

Thursday 4 July

- FREE Day! - Go march in the parade! - BBQ - (probably no fireworks this year)

Friday 5 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Stefano Fusi "Learning and memory in material devices: from the Hebbian paradigm to spike-driven synaptic dynamics"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Paolo Del Giudice - "Population dynamics of interacting spiking neurons"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup: Address-event transmitters and receivers

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Auditory Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 19:00 - Saliency Workgroup

      • 17:00-18:00 Tutorial on the Itti/Koch Saliency model

      • 18:00-19:00 Tutorial on the code of the model

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Mark Tilden - "Toy Tech as a Vector for Neuromorphic Darwinism"

Saturday 6 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Tony Lewis - "Biped Locomotion"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Andre van Schaik "Human Sound Localization and the Generation of Virtual Reality Audio"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 14:00 - Discussion group over lunch: Top down information for visual attenion - what is it, how can it be represented, how can it be used to modulate attention

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Vision Chips Workgroup

      • 16:00 - 17:00 - Demos and project discussion

      • 17:00 - 18:00 - Bert Shi: "Spring mass analogies for neuromorphic circuits for collective computation"

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 20:00 - Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 22:00

Sunday 7 July

  • Free Day - Go Hiking! - Work on Project!

Monday 8 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Reid Harrison - "An Insect-Inspired Model of Visual Collision Detection"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Timmer Horiuchi - "Microchip-optera: a bat-inspired model of insect collision"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup: Interfacing multiple transmitters and receivers

    • 16:00 - 17:00 Avis Cohen - Motor control tutorial

    • 17:00 - 17:30 - Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 17:30 - What is Life? Discussion Group

  • Evening:

    • 18:30 - 20:00 Mike Stryker (Woods Hole Group) - "What creates the critical period in cortical development"

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Mark Tilden - "World Domination for Fun and Profit" - The speaker will talk about science applied to recent developments in robot toy technology, with some sneak peeks at up and coming designs, products, and exhibits.

(public talk)

Tuesday 9 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Harvey Karten (Woods Hole Group) - "Bug Detectors, Lettvin Units and Picket Fences: Evolution is Very Conservative!"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Terry Sejnowski (Woods Hole Group) - "What the locust's antennal lobe tells the locusts brain"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 14:00 Anthony Zador - TBA

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 15:00 - Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 18:00 - Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 17:00 - Visual Saliency Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 19:00 - Vision Chips Workgroup

      • 17:00 - 18:00 - Tobi Delbruck on adaptive photoreceptor circuits

      • 18:00 - 19:00 - Jorg Kramer on motion sensitive chips

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 20:00 - Roving Robots Workgroup

    • 18:30 - 20:00 - Online Learning Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Barry Richmond (Woods Hole Group) - "Essential role of temporal lobe structures in learning visual-reward expectation associations: Physiological, behavioral and molecular studies in monkeys"

Wednesday 10 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 David Fitzpatrick (Woods Hole Group) - "Using functional imaging to explore connectivity and coding in primary visual cortex"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Steve Zucker (Woods Hole Group) - "Computing with cortical connections"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 -14:00 - Top-down attention discussion group (over lunch)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup: Interfacing with computers and configuring connections

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Locomotion Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 18:30 Reid Harrison - "A low-power, low-noiseCMOS amplifier for neural recording applications"

    • 18:45 - 19:30 - Pic/Atmel Processor Tutorial

    • 19:30 - 20:00 - Electric + Winspice (free IC design tools) tutorial

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Sidney Lehky (Woods Hole Group) - "Stimulus selectivity in V1 neurons"

Thursday 11 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Raj Rao - "Bayesian Inference in Recurrent Cortical Circuits"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Bruno Olshausen - "Sparse coding of time-varying natural images"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 17:00 - BBQ at Telluride Lodge!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Rodney Douglas (public talk)

Friday 12 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Cindy Moss - "Action and perception in the representation of auditory space"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Shih-Chii Liu "Role of dynamics synapses in computation and modeling them in silicon"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup: Remodeling axonal arbors

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Auditory Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Locomotion Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 19:00 - Saliency Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30 Mitra Hartmann - "Active Sensing with Rat Whiskers"

Saturday 13 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Paul Hasler

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Bert Shi - "Multi-layer diffusively coupled neuromorphic circuit networks for visual information processing"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 17:00 - Vision Chip Workgroup: Kwabena Boahen - "A retinomorphic chip with four ganglion-cell types"

  • Evening:

Sunday 14 July

Free Day

Monday 15 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Kwabena Boahen - "Silicon growth cones: Wiring together neurons that fire together"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Steve DeWeerth - "Motor Pattern Generation: VLSI Architectures, Dynamics, and Neuronal Interfacing"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 17:30 - Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 17:30 - What is life? Discussion group

  • Evening:

    • 18:00 - 19:00 - Vision Chips Workgroup: Andre van Schaik on the logitech trackball sensor

    • 20:00 - 22:00

Tuesday 16 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Christof Koch - "Selective visual attention: psychophysics, physiology and modeling"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Tobi Delbruck - "How to build a luminous tactile floor and what to do with it"

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 14:00 - Top-down Attention Dicussion Group (over lunch)

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 15:00 - Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 17:00 - Visual Saliency Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 18:00 - Visual Chips Workgroup: Duane Edgington - Oceanographic Research and Technology at MBARI: Robotic eyes peering into the deep ocean

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 Jörg Kramer - "Developing topography and ocular dominance using aVLSI vision sensors and a neurotrophic model of plasticity"

Wednesday 17 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30 Steven Greenberg - "Beyond the Phoneme: A Juncture-Accent Model of Spoken Language"

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Andreas Andreou

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00 - 14:00 - Auditory Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - AVLSI Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - CNS Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 18:00 - Locmotion Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 21:00 - Roving Robots Workgroup

Thursday 18 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30

    • 11:00 - 12:30 Nici Schraudolph - "Rapid Stochastic Gradient Descent"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 15:30 - Vision chips Workgroup

      • 14:00 - 14:30 - Swati Mehta

      • 14:30 - 15:00 - Yoichi Miyawaki

      • 15:00 - 15:30 - Eduardo Torres-Jara: "Vision in Robotics"

    • 17:00 - BBQ at Telluride Lodge!

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00 Christof Koch - (Public Talk)

Friday 19 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 10:00 - 12:00 - Workgroup Presentations

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 16:00 - Workgroup Presentations

  • Evening:

    • 20:30... - Final Dinner! Skits, food, merriment!

Saturday 20 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30

    • 11:00 - 12:30

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30 - 17:30

    • 17:30 - 18:30

  • Evening:

    • 20:00 - 22:00

Sunday 21 July

  • Morning:

    • Before 10:00 - Check out of Condo.


Telluride 2003

Telluride Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - retienne@isr.umd.edu

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland - timmer@isr.umd.edu

Technical Personnel:

  • Alice Mobaidin, INE - mobaidin@isr.umd.edu

  • David Lawrence, Institute of Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Elisabetta Chicca, Institute of Neuroinformatics - chicca@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Jorg Conradt, Institute of Neuroinformatics - conradt@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kathrin Aguilar Ruiz-Hofacker, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Matt Cheely, University of Maryland - mcheely@isr.umd.edu

  • Pam White, Maryland - pwhite@isr.umd.edu

  • Richard Blum, Georgia Institute of Technology - rblum@ece.gatech.edu

  • Richard Reeve, Institute of Neuroinformatics - richardr@ini.phys.ethz.ch

Guest Speakers:

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@ee.usyd.edu.au

  • Ania Mitros, Caltech - ania@klab.caltech.edu

  • Barbara Webb, - b.h.webb@stir.ac.uk

  • Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Instituto Microelectronica Sevilla - bernabe@imse.cnm.es

  • Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eebert@ee.ust.hk

  • Brian Scassellati, Yale University - scaz@cs.yale.edu

  • Chuck Higgins, University of Arizona - higgins@ece.arizona.edu

  • David Anderson, Georgia Tech - dva@ece.gatech.edu

  • Hiroshi Kimura, The University of Electro-Communications - hiroshi@kimura.is.uec.ac.jp

  • Jochen Braun, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Plymouth - achim@pion.ac.uk

  • Kevan Martin, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kevan@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Laurent Itti, USC - itti@pollux.usc.edu

  • Malcolm Slaney, IBM Almaden Research Center - malcolm@ieee.org

  • Mark W. Tilden, Institute for Physical Sciences/Hasbro Toys R&D; - mwtilden@wowwee.com.hk

  • Mitra Hartmann, Caltech - hartmann@brain.jpl.nasa.gov

  • Nici Schraudolph, ETH Zurich - schraudo@inf.ethz.ch

  • Robert Legenstein, Technische Universitaet Graz - legi@igi.tu-graz.ac.at

  • Steven Greenberg, International Computer Science Institute - steveng@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU

  • Tim Pearce, University of Leicester - t.c.pearce@leicester.ac.uk

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

Computational Neuroscience Workshop:

  • Barry Richmond, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH/NIH - bjr@ln.nimh.nih.gov

  • Bob Desimone, NIH - Desimonr@INTRA.NIMH.nih.gov

  • Bruce McNaughton, - bruce@nsma.arizona.edu

  • Harvey Karten, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego - hjkarten@ucsd.edu

  • John Allman, Caltech - cebus@caltech.edu

  • Michale Fee, MIT - fee@mit.edu

  • Steve Zucker, Yale - zucker@cs.yale.edu

  • Wolfram Schultz, - ws234@cam.ac.uk

Applicants:

  • Chiara Bartolozzi, - chiara@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Christy Rogers, University of Florida - christy@cnel.ufl.edu

  • Edgar Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology - ebrown@ece.gatech.edu

  • Elizabeth Felton, University of Wisconsin - Madison - felton@cae.wisc.edu

  • Guy Rachmuth, Harvard University, Div. of Engin. and applied Science - rachmuth@fas.harvard.edu

  • Jacob Vogelstein, - jvogelst@bme.jhu.edu

  • Karl Pauwels, - karl@neuro.kuleuven.ac.be

  • Katsuyoshi Tsujita, Kyoto University - tsujita@kuaero.kyoto-u.ac.jp

  • Kerstin Preuschoff, - preuschi@caltech.edu

  • Matthias Oster, Institute of Neuroinformatics, Zurich - mao@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Meihua Tai, Polytechnic University - mtai@duke.poly.edu

  • Milutin Stanacevic, Johns Hopkins University - miki@jhu.edu

  • Nima Mesgarani, - mnima@glue.umd.edu

  • Ning Qian, Columbia University - qian@brahms.cpmc.columbia.edu

  • Paschalis Veskos, - paschalis.veskos@imperial.ac.uk

  • Paul Merolla, Upenn - pmerolla@seas.upenn.edu

  • Peter Asaro, - asaro@uiuc.edu

  • Ralf M. Philipp, Johns Hopkins Univ. - rphilipp@jhu.edu

  • Reto Wyss, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University/ETH Zuerich - rwyss@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Ryan Kier, University of Utah - kier@eng.utah.edu

  • Shane Migliore, - shane@shanemigliore.com

  • Sourabh Ravindran, Georgia Institute of Technology - stg@ece.gatech.edu

  • Steven Kalik, Cornell University Weill Grad School Lab for Visually Guided Behavior - sfk1@cornell.edu

  • Sven Behnke, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Berkeley - behnke@icsi.berkeley.edu

  • Teresa Serrano-Gotarredona, - terese@imse.cnm.es

  • Xiuxia Du, Washington University in St. Louis - duxiuxia@netra.wustl.edu

Telluride 2003 Workshop Schedule

Sunday 29 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 17:00: Welcome reception @ elementary school

    • 19:00: Tour of the workshop facilities (@ elementary school)

Monday 30 June

Hosts: Giacomo and Timmer

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:00: Giacomo and Timmer outline the workshop

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Christof Koch - "Computation and the Single Neuron" (timmer's title for Christof)

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 15:00: Workgroup and Discussion Group Advertisements

    • 15:00 - 16:00: Rodney Douglas - "Artificial and Natural Computation Tutorial"

    • 16:00 - 17:00: Shihab Shamma - "Auditory and Visual Computation Tutorial"

    • 17:00 - 18:00: Avis Cohen - "Motor Tutorial"

  • Evening:

    • 19:30 - 20:30: Introductions by applicants (oral and gestural communication)

    • 20:30 - 22:00: John Allman - "Neurons of Frontoinsular and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Related to Risk, Reward and Error" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

Tuesday 1 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Avis Cohen - "CPGs and Locomotion"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Harvey Karten - "Vision and Evolution" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 15:30: Tobi Delbruck - "Misha and her Stero Chip and Why You Should Care About it"

    • 16:00 - 18:00: Discussion Group Presentations

    • 17:00: Floting Gate Workgroup / aVLSI Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 19:00: BeoBot Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30: Bob Desimone - "" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

    • 21:30 - 22:00: CNS Workgroup Initial Meeting

Wednesday 2 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Laurent Itti - "Computational Modeling of Visual Attention and its Applicability to Neuromorphic Systems"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Terry Sejnowski - "How is Color Represented in the Visual Cortex" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30: Multi-modality Workgroup

    • 14:00 - 15:30: Steve Zucker - "" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

    • 15:45 - 16:45: Nici Schraudolph - "Online Learning Tutorial I: Statistics on the Fly"

    • 17:00: BBQ

  • Evening:

    • 19:00: Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 19:00: BeoBot Workgroup

    • 21:30 - 22:00: Vision Chips Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30: Bruce McNaughton - "" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

Thursday 3 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Shihab Shamma - "Rapid Behaviorally-Dependent Plasticity in Auditory Cortex"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Wolfram Schultz - "Outcome Coding in Brain Reward Centers" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup: Kwabena Boahen - "What are Address-Events?"

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:00: Roving Robot Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup

    • 18:00: Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 19:00: BeoBot Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:30: Barry Richmond - "" (Computational Neuroscience Group)

Friday 4 July - FREE DAY FOR THE NEUROMORPHS!

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • PARADE!!

  • Afternoon:

  • Evening:

Saturday 5 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Bert Shi - "Orientation Hypercolumns in Visual Cortex: Multiple and Single-Chip Implementations"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Kwabena Boahen - "Wiring Feature Maps by Following Gradients: Silicon and Mathematical Models"

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:00: Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 14:00: Vision Chips Workgroup

    • 14:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 19:00: Hero of Alexandria's Mobile Robot Workgroup

    • 17:00 - 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup Meeting

  • Evening:

    • 19:00 - 20:00: CNS Workgroup: Project Demos

    • 20:00 - 21:30: Michaele Fee - "Bird Song Learning"

Sunday 6 July

  • Free Day - Go Hiking! - Work on Projects!

Monday 7 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Barbara Webb - "Biorobots: not just cricket?"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: David Anderson - "Prototyping Cooperative Analog-Digital Signal Processing Systems for Auditory Applications"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup: Kwabena Boahen - "AER Transmitters and Receivers"

    • 15:00: Vision Chips Workgroup: Tobi Delbruck - "Phototransduction in Silicon"

    • 15:00 - 16:00: Bioethics Discussion Group

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:00: BioBug Olympics Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup

    • 18:00: Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 19:30: Bioethics Discussion Group

    • 20:00: Liquid Computing Workgroup

Tuesday 8 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Rodney Douglas - "Tutorial: Basic Organization and Development of Cortex"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Chuck Higgins - "The Neuronal Basis of Dipteran Elementary Motion Detection"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: Online Learning Workgroup

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup

    • 15:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 16:00: Multi-modality Workgroup

    • 17:00: Roving Robots Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: Bias Generators Workgroup

    • 19:00: AVLSi Tutorial Workgroup

    • 20:00 - 21:00: Practical Advice on Testbed Design Discussion Group

    • 20:00: Locomotion Workgroup

Wednesday 9 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Tony Lewis - "Visuomotor Coordination in Humans and Machines"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Ralph Etienne-Cummings - "Applying Ideas from Visual Image Processing to Sonar Signal Processing: Making Every Ping Count"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup: Giacomo Indiveri - "PCI-AER Board With Multiple Transmitters and Receivers"

    • 15:00: Vision Chips Workgroup: Kwabena Boahen - "A Retinomorphic Chip With Four Ganglion-Cell Types"

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:00: BBQ

  • Evening:

    • 19:00: aVLSI Worktgroup

    • 19:00: Floating Gate Workgroup

    • 20:00: Teaching Neuroscience Discussion Group

Thursday 10 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Ania Mitros - "Floating Gates: Probability Estimation, Mismatch Reduction, and Machine Learning"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Bernabe Linares - "Some Interesting Low Power Techniques for Analog VLSI Neuromorphic Systems"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: Online Learning Workgroup

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup

    • 16:00: Multi-modality Workgroup

    • 17:00: Roving Robot Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup

Friday 11 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Mark Tilden - "Telluridestine: Brief History and Update on the Second Neuromorphic Mass-Market Monster"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Malcom Slaney - "Computational Audition: Correlograms, CASA and Clustering"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup: Paul Merolla - "Word-Serial AER for Multichip Systems"

    • 15:00: Vision Workgroup: Andre Van Schaik - "Marble Madness: Designing the Logitech Trackball Chip"

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup

Saturday 12 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Andre van Schaik - "Sound Localisation: Psychophysics and Applications"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Mitra Hartmann - "Sensory Acquisition with Rat Whiskers"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00 - 17:00: BioBug Olympics Workgroup

    • 16:00 - 19:00: Hero of Alexandria's Mobile Robot Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: Bernabe Linares - "Some Interesting Low Power Techniques for Analog VLSI Neuromorphic Systems - Part 2"

    • 20:00: Round Table Discussion: Tradeoffs Between Detail and Abstraction in Neuromorphic Engineering

Sunday 13 July

  • Free Day!

Monday 14 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Tim Pearce - "Chemosensory Systems on the Brain"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Hiroshi Kimura - "Biologically Inspired Legged Locomotion Control of Robots"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup

    • 15:00: Vision Chips Workgroup: Ralph Etienne-Cummings - "Focal-Plane Image Processing Using Computation on Read-Out"

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: aVLSI Workgroup

    • 19:30: Bioethics Discussion Group

Tuesday 15 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Robert Legenstein - "A Model for Real-Time Computation in Generic Neural Microcircuits"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Steve Greenberg - "A Mulit-modal, Syllable-centric Framework for Spoken Language"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: Online Learning Workgroup

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup: David Anderson - "Design of a Hearing Aid"

    • 16:00: Multi-modality Workgroup

    • 17:00: Roving Robots Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:00: Bias Generator Workgroup

    • 19:00: Future of Neuromorphic VLSI Discussion Group

    • 20:00 - 21:30: Kevan Martin - ""

Wednesday 16 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Timmer Horiuchi - "Microchipoptera: Analog VLSI Sonar Doodads"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Brian Scassellati - "Using Anthropomorphic Robots to Study Human Social Development"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: CNS Workgroup

    • 15:00: Vision Chips Workgroup: Particitpant Talks

      • 15:00 - 15:20: Ning Qian - "A Physiological Model of Perceptual Learning in Orientation Discrimination"

      • 15:30 - 16:00: Bernabe Linares - "EU Project CAVIAR on Multi-layer AER Vision"

    • 16:00: Locomotion Workgroup

    • 17:00: BBQ

  • Evening:

    • 19:00: aVLSI Workgroup

    • 20:00: Discussion Group: The Present and Future of the Telluride Workshop - What are we doing here?

Thursday 17 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 10:30: Jochen Braun - "Attentional Changes to Visual Representations"

    • 11:00 - 12:30: Giacomo Indiveri - "Winner Take All Circuits for Models of Selective Attention"

  • Afternoon:

    • 14:00: Online Learning Workgroup

    • 15:00: Audio Workgroup

    • 16:00: Multi-modality Workgroup

    • 17:00: Roving Robots Workgroup

  • Evening:

    • 18:30: Bioethics Discussion Group (going out to dinner, meet by the coffee room)

Friday 18 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 10:00 - 12:00: Workgroup Presentations

  • Afternoon:

    • 12:30 - 1:00: nEUro-IT Network: US-EU interaction

      • A European network at the interface between cognitive neuroscience and information technology

    • 14:00 - 16:00: Workgroup Presentations

  • Evening:

    • 19:30...: Final Dinner! Skits, food, merriment!

Saturday 19 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 - 12:30: PACKING AND LOADING PARTY

  • Afternoon:

    • 13:30: cleanup / vacuming

  • Evening:

Sunday 20 July

Hosts:

  • Morning:

    • Before 10:00: Check out of Condo


Telluride 2004

Telluride Participants


Organizers:

  • Avis Cohen, University of Maryland - avis@glue.umd.edu

  • Christof Koch, Caltech - koch@klab.caltech.edu

  • Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics - giacomo@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University - retienne@isr.umd.edu

  • Rodney Douglas, Institute of Neuroinformatics - rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Shihab Shamma, University of Mariland - sas@glue.umd.edu

  • Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute - CNL - terry@salk.edu

  • Timmer Horiuchi, University of Maryland - timmer@isr.umd.edu

Technical Personnel:

  • Alice Mobaidin, INE - mobaidin@isr.umd.edu

  • David Lawrence, Institute of Neuroinformatics - dave@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Chris Twigg, Georgia Institute of Technology - ctwigg@ece.gatech.edu

  • Ethan Farquhar, Georgia Inst. of Technology - farquhar@ece.gatech.edu

  • Kathrin Aguilar Ruiz-Hofacker, Institute of Neuroinformatics - kathrin@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Matt Cheely, University of Maryland - mcheely@isr.umd.edu

  • Mounya Elhilali, Institute for Systems Research - mounya@eng.umd.edu

  • Nima Mesgarani, University of Maryland - mnima@glue.umd.edu

  • Pam White, Maryland - pwhite@isr.umd.edu

  • Richard Reeve, Institute of Neuroinformatics - richardr@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Ulysses Bernardet , Institute of Neuroinformatics - ulysses@ini.phys.ethz.ch

Guest Speakers:

  • Andre van Schaik, University of Sydney - andre@ee.usyd.edu.au

  • Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins University - andreou@jhu.edu

  • Anton Civit, University of Seville, Spain - civit@atc.us.es

  • Bert Shi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - eebert@ee.ust.hk

  • Christophe Micheyl, MIT - cmicheyl@mit.edu

  • Chuck Higgins, University of Arizona - higgins@ece.arizona.edu

  • David Anderson, Georgia Tech - dva@ece.gatech.edu

  • Ernst Niebur, Johns Hopkins - niebur@jhu.edu\

  • Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland - hynek@idiap.ch

  • Kwabena Boahen, UPenn - boahen@seas.upenn.edu

  • Lena Ting, Georgia Tech / Emory - lena.ting@bme.gatech.edu

  • Malcolm Slaney, IBM Almaden Research Center - malcolm@ieee.org

  • Michael S Lewicki, Carnegie Mellon University - lewicki@cs.cmu.edu

  • Nici Schraudolph, ETH Zurich - schraudo@inf.ethz.ch

  • Orly Yadid-Pecht, Ben-Gurion University - oyp@ee.bgu.ac.il

  • Pamela A. Abshire, University of Maryland, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    - pabshire@isr.umd.edu

  • Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology - phasler@ee.gatech.edu

  • Reid Harrison, University of Utah - harrison@ece.utah.edu

  • Roy Ritzmann, Case Western Reserve University - rer3@po.cwru.edu

  • Shih-Chii Liu, Institute of Neuroinformatics - shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tobi Delbruck, Instiute of Neuroinformatics - tobi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Tony Lewis, Iguana Robotics, Inc. - tlewis@iguana-robotics.com

  • Yiannis Aliomonos, ComputerVision Lab, University of Maryland - yiannis@cfar.umd.edu

Computational Neuroscience Workshop:

  • Barry Richmond, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH/NIH - bjr@ln.nimh.nih.gov

  • Beth Buffalo, NIH - buffaloe@mail.nih.gov

  • Bruce McNaughton, - bruce@nsma.arizona.edu

  • Dana Ballard, Rochester - dana@cs.rochester.edu

  • Dave Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon - dst@cs.cmu.edu

  • Harvey Karten, Dept. of Neurosciences, University of California at San Diego - hjkarten@ucsd.edu

  • John Allman, Caltech - cebus@caltech.edu

  • Jun Tanji, - tanjij@mail.cc.tohoku.ac.jp

  • Kenji Doya, - doya@irp.oist.jp

  • Sebastian Seung, MIT - seung@mit.edu

  • Steve Zucker, Yale - zucker@cs.yale.edu

Applicants:

  • Alexander Fish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - afish@ee.bgu.ac.il

  • Andrew Horchler, Dept of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western
    Reserve - adh9@case.edu

  • Antoine Beyeler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne - antoine.beyeler@epfl.ch

  • Changjian Gao, Oregon Health and Science University - cjgao@cse.ogi.edu

  • Christopher Assad, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA - chris.assad@jpl.nasa.gov

  • Clyde Clarke, Morgan State University - clydeclarke55@hotmail.com

  • CorneliaMFermĂĽller, ComputerVision Lab, University of Maryland - fer@cfar.umd.edu

  • Eleni Vasilaki, Dept of Informatics, University of Sussex, UK - E.Vasilaki@sussex.ac.uk

  • Eugenio Culurciello, Johns Hopkins University - euge@jhu.edu

  • Francesco Tenore, Johns Hopkins University - fra@jhu.edu

  • Guillermo Serrano, Georgia Tech - gserrano@ece.gatech.edu

  • H. Isil Bozma, Electric Electronic Eng. Dept., Bogazici Univ., Turkey - bozma@boun.edu.tr

  • James E Whitney II, Morgan State University - Whitney@eng.morgan.edu

  • Jason J. Kutch, University of Michigan - jkutch@umich.edu

  • Jevin E Scrivens, Georgia Tech - scrivens@neuro.gatech.edu

  • Jianghong Tian, Dept of Biology, University of Virginia - jt6y@virginia.edu

  • Kazuki Nakada, Dept of Elec Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan - nakada@sapiensei.
    eng.hokudai.ac.jp

  • Kelly Feller,Washington University in St. Louis - kjf1@cec.wustl.edu

  • Massimiliano Giulioni, Italian Institute of Health (ISS) - massimiliano.giulioni@roma2.infn.it

  • Murat Sekerli, Georgia Inst. of Technology - msekerli@ece.gatech.edu

  • Pablo Sergio Mandolesi, pmandolesi@uns.edu.ar - pmandolesi@uns.edu.ar

  • Patrick Degenaar, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College
    - p.degenaar@imperial.ac.uk

  • Patrick Lichtsteiner, INI, Zurich - patrick@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Paul T Watkins, University of Utah - pwatkins@xmission.com

  • Paul Y. Oh, Dept of Mech Eng, Drexel University - paul@coe.drexel.edu

  • Rafael Paz-Vicente, University of Seville - rpaz@atc.us.es

  • Robert C Olsen III, Comp Neuroengineering,U of Florida - robolsen3@2005dauphin.org

  • Rodrigo Alvarez, U of Pennsylvania, Dept of Bioengineering - rodrigoa@seas.upenn.edu

  • Ryan Prescott Adams, University of Cambridge; MIT - radams@csail.mit.edu

  • Sergi Bermudez Badia, INI, Zurich - sergi@ini.phys.ethz.ch

  • Varinthira Duangudom, Georgia Tech - gtg496j@mail.gatech.edu

Telluride 2004 Workshop Schedule

Sunday 27 June

Arrive in Telluride

Condo Check-In

  • Evening:

    • 5:00 PM: Welcome reception @ elementary school

    • 7:00 PM: Tour of the workshop facilities (@ elementary school)

Monday 28 June

  • Morning

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Timmer/Giacomo - "Introduction"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Rodney Douglas - "Cortical architectures, some implication for natural computation"

  • Afternoon

    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Shihab Shamma - "Auditory Tutorial"

  • Evening

    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Personal Introduction

Tuesday 29 June

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Paul Hasler - "Floating-Gate Circuits"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Avis Cohen - "Control of locomotion"

  • Afternoon

    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Avis Cohen - "Motor control: answers and questions"

    • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Discussion/Workgroup Advertisement


Wednesday 30 June

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Bert Shi - "Neuromorphic Modeling of Multidimensional Selectivity in Visual Cortex"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Andreas Andreou - "Towards Eyes for Sensor Network System"

  • afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Online learning

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: ABC of bias generator workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Robots workgroup

    • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Auditory, Shihab Shamma, "representation of sound in primary auditory cortex"

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

  • Evening

    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Vision workgroup- "introductory session"

    • 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup- "introductory session"

Thursday 1 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Yiannis Aloimonos - "VISION IS A CHICKEN-EGG PROBLEM: The compositionality of vision and its consequences for brain research and neuromorphic engineering"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Hynek Hermansky - "It's about time (arguments against spectrum of speech)"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup - "What is AER and how does it work?"

    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Anton Civit - "Computer interfaces"

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

  • Evening

    • 5:00 PM - BBQ

    • 5:00 PM: Workgroup meeting: Build timmer a tail at BBQ

    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Robots workgroup

Friday 2 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Ernst Niebur - "Attention and Selection"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Ralph Etienne-Cummings - "Focal-Plane Image Conditioning, Processing and Read-Out"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Solar supplies

    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Andre Van Schaik - “The Electronic Auditory Pathway and Cochlear Implants”

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

  • Evening

    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup - "Introduction to FPGAs and CPLDs"

    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Vision workgroup, Yiannis Aloimonos (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM), "Motion Segmentation: how you find independently moving objects as you move"

    • 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM: Future of Neuromorphic VLSI discussion group

Saturday 3 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Reid Harrison - "Visual Collision Detection - From Flies to Chips"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Shih-chii Liu - "Silicon AER neuronal circuits"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup - bitserial AER meeting

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Vision workgroup

    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Robotics workgroup - Atmel microcontroller introduction


Sunday 4 July

Parade, Day off

Monday 5 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Chuck Higgins - "Visual target tracking based on fly FD cells"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Pamela Abshire - "Sensory information processing under physical constraints"

  • Afternoon:

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Robots workgroup

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

  • Evening

    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Bruce McNaughton - "Cortical hierarchies, the hippocampus, and memory consolidation: how does space fit in?"

    • 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Dave Touretzky - "Varieties of Remapping in the Rodent Hippocampus"

Tuesday 6 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Harvey Karten - "Evolution of vision"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Kwabena Boahen - "Word-Serial Address-Events for Multichip Systems"

  • Afternoon:

    • 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM: H. Isil Bozma - "Attentively Seeing Robots"

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup - "Tradeoffs in AER Communication Channel Design"

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Timmer tail workgroup

    • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Online learning

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Vision workgroup -

      • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Cornelia Fermuller - "Self motion estimation as a pattern recognition problem"

      • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Bert Shi: "Spring mass analogies for neuromorphic circuits for collective computation"

  • Evening:

    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: John Allman - "Spindle neurons: A neural substrate for rapid intuitive judgement"

    • 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Jun Tanji - "Prefrontal cortex of primates"

Wednesday 7 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Beth Buffalo - "Neurobiology of Attention"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Sebastian Seung - "Biologically plausible synaptic models for reinforcement learning"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: ABC of bias generator

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Vision workgroup - Cornelia Fermuller - "Statistics predicts illusions in man and machine"

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Robots workgroup: Introduction to the neural systems simulator iqr

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

  • Evening

    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Barry Richmond - "Features of a dopamine rich brain system balancing work and reward"

    • 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Kenji Doya - "Meta-learning, Neuromodulation and Emotion"

Thursday 8 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Tobi Delbruck - "Understanding and using silicon photoreceptors"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Terry Sejnowski - "Spike time patterns"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Solar supplies

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Configurable Neuromorphic systems workgroup -"Splits and Merges for AER Streams"

    • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Online learning workgroup

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

  • Evening

    • BBQ

    • 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM: Steve Zucker - "Hue Geometry and Horizontal Connections"

Friday 9 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Christof Koch - "Attention and awareness"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Dana Ballard - "Coding cortical hiearchies with projection pursuit"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Robots workgroup

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

Saturday 10 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Orly Yadid-Pecht

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tony Lewis - "visuomotor coordination during locomotion "

Sunday 11 July

Day off

Monday 12 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Roy Ritzmann - "Interfacing Neuroethology and Biorobotics: Hints from Convergent Evolution"

    • 11:00 AM- 12:30 PM: Malcolm Slaney - "The History and Future of Computational Audio Scene Analysis"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup - Misha Pavel - "Symbiosis between Biology and Engineering: Mutually Inspired Solutions in Psychoacousitcs and Automatic Speech Recognition"

    • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Audio workgroup - discussing pitch and projects

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Locomotion workgroup

    • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Bio-inspired wireless sensor networks workgroup

Tuesday 13 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Mike Lewicki - "Theoretical models for the neural coding of natural sounds"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Timmer Horiuchi - "Neuromorphic bat echolocation: catching neuromorphic flies"

  • Afternoon:

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Configurable neuromorphic systems workgroup - "FPAAs and Project Updates"

    • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Christophe Micheyl

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

    • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Robots workgroup

  • Evening

    • 6:00 PM: Public Lecture

Wednesday 14 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: David Anderson

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Nici Schraudolph - "3D Visual Hand Tracking with Stochastic Gradients"

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Timmer tail workgroup, meeting at 12:30 PM at school to the top of the mountain

    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Bias generator workgroup

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

Thursday 15 July

  • Morning:

    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Lena Ting - "Neuromechanics of Posture and Balance"

    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Paul Oh - "Designing Purposive Visually Servoed Systems: From Broadcasting to
      Micro-Air-Vehicle Navigation

  • Afternoon

    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Audio workgroup

    • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Patrick Degenaar - "Organic semiconductor devices, a tutorial"

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: AVLSI

    • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Floating gate tutorial

  • Evening

    • BBQ

Friday 16 July

  • Morning:

    • Projects Review

  • Evening

    • Final Dinner / Awards

Saturday 17 July

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