Organizers:

• Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute /UCSD) - terry@salk.edu

• Christof Koch (Caltech) - koch@klab.caltech.edu

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:

• Kwabena Boahen, Caltech, CA - buster@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Wilhelm Burger, UC Riverside, CA - wilbur@constitution.ucr.edu

• Gert Cauwenberghs/Johns Hopkins, MD - gert@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

• Robert Chang, Univ. of Southern California, CA - chchang@atlantic.usc.edu

• Steve Deiss, Applied Neurodynamics, CA - deiss@appliedneuro.com

• Tobi Delbruck, Caltech, CA - tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu

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

• Thomas Edwards, Univ. of Maryland, MD - tedwards@src.umd.edu

• Mike Fischer, Research Machines plc, Oxford

• Dr. Hoffman, TELEFUNKEN microelectronic GmbH, Germany

• Tim Horiuchi , Caltech, CA - timmer@klab.caltech.edu

• Adam Jacobs, UC Berkeley, CA - ajk@garnet.berkeley.edu

• Zaven Kalayjian, MD - Johns Hopkins, zaven@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

• Shih-chii Liu, Caltech, CA - shih@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Shawn Lockery, Univ. of Oregon, OR - shawn@chinook.uoregon.edu

• Ronnie Mainieri, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM - ronnie@raptor.lanl.gov

• Jonathan Mills, Indiana Univ., IN - jwmills@cs.indiana.edu

• Mark Nelson, Univ. of Illinois, IL - m-nelson@uiuc.edu

• David Standley, Rockwell International Science Center, CA - dls@jupiter.risc.rockwell.com

• Mark Tilden, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM - mwtilden@aerie.lanl.gov

• Woody Yang, Harvard University, MA - woody@das.harvard.edu

Week Two Organizers:

• Dana Ballard (Univ. of Rochester) - dana@cs.rochester.edu

• Richard Andersen (Caltech) - andersen@vis.caltech.edu - talk abstract

Week Two Participants:

• Marty Banks, UC Berkeley, CA - marty@john.berkeley.edu

• Gary Cottrell, UC San Diego, CA - gary@desi.ucsd.edu

• Peter W. Dicke, Univ. of Tuebingen, Germany - dicke@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de - talk abstract

• Nicola Ferrier, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, U.K. - nicola@robots.oxford.ac.uk

• Laurence R. Harris, York Univ., Canada - talk abstract

• Tim Horiuchi, Caltech - timmer@klab.caltech.edu

• Jonas Karlsson, Univ. of Rochester - jonas@cs.rochester.edu

• Bartlett Mel, Caltech, CA - mel@klab.caltech.edu - talk abstract

• Marcus Mitchell, Caltech, CA - marcus@hope.caltech.edu

• Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Northwestern Univ., IL - talk abstract

• Jeff Pelz, Univ. of Rochester - pelz@cs.rochester.edu

• David Redish, Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA - dredish+@cs.cmu.edu - talk abstract

• Terence Sanger, JPL, CA - sanger@nips.jpl.nasa.gov

• Larry Snyder, Caltech, CA - larry@vis.caltech.edu

• William H. Warren, Brown Univ. RI - warren@browncog.bitnet - talk abstract

• Steven Whitehead, GTE Laboratories, MA -

• Jeremy Michael Wolfe, Harvard Univ., MA - wolfe@psyche.mit.edu

Technical Personnel:

• Bryan Nielsen, Sejnowski Lab (Salk Institute) - bryan@salk.edu

• David Lawrence, Sejnowski Lab (Salk Institute) - dave@salk.edu

• Tim Horiuchi, Koch Lab, (Caltech) - timmer@klab.caltech.edu

• Maneesh Sahani, Andersen Lab (Caltech) - maneesh@vis.caltech.edu

• Tim Becker, Ballard Lab (Univ. of Rochester) - becker@cs.rochester.edu

• Jeff Pelz, Ballard Lab (Univ. of Rochester) - pelz@cs.rochester.edu or jeff@cvs.rochester.edu

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 Participants

Organizers:

• Dana Ballard (Univ. of Rochester) - dana@cs.rochester.edu

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

• Mary Hayhoe, (Univ. of Rochester) - mary@cs.rochester.edu

• Christof Koch (Caltech) - koch@klab.caltech.edu

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

• Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute /UCSD) - terry@salk.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason

• Gail Patricelli - gailpat@csn.org

Technical Personnel:

• Tim Becker, Ballard Lab (Univ. of Rochester) - becker@cs.rochester.edu

• Tim Horiuchi, Koch Lab, (Caltech) - timmer@klab.caltech.edu

• Jörg Kramer, Koch Lab, (Caltech) - kramer@klab.caltech.edu

• Bryan Nielsen, Sejnowski Lab (Salk Institute) - bryan@salk.edu

• Nick Priebe Sejnowski Lab (Salk Institute) - npriebe@salk.edu

• Rajesh Rao, Ballard Lab (Univ. of Rochester) - rao@cs.rochester.edu

• Garbis Salgian, Ballard Lab (Univ. of Rochester) - salgian@cs.rochester.edu

• Wayne Westerman, Univ. of Delaware - westerma@ee.udel.edu

Participants

• Kwabena Boahen, Caltech - buster@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Andreas Bühlmeier - andreas@informatik.uni-bremen.de

• Graham Cairns, Oxford - gac@robots.ox.ac.uk

• Avis Cohen, Maryland - Avis_H_COHEN@umail.umd.edu

• Tobi Delbrück - tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu

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

• Steve Deiss, Applied NeuroDynamics - deiss@appliedneuro.com

• Chris Diorio,Caltech - chris@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Tim Edwards, Johns Hopkins University - tim@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

• John Elias, University of Delaware - elias@ee.udel.edu

• Mike Fischer, Research Machines

• Roger Freedman, Gatsby Foundation - rpf@diacam.demon.co.uk

• John Harris, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville - harris@jupiter.ee.ufl.edu

• Kunihiko Iizuka, Sharp - ii@shpcsl.sharp.co.jp

• Shih-chii Liu, Caltech - shih@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Jack Loomis, UC Santa Barbara - loomis@psych.ucsb.edu

• Matthew Marjanovic maddog@ai.mit.edu

• Yoky Matsuoka yoky@ai.mit.edu

• Peter McOwan, University College of London - pmco@psychol.ucl.ac.uk

• Jeffrey Miller - miller@atlantis.harvard.edu

• Tonia Morris, Georgia Tech - tmorris@eecom.gatech.edu

• Jeff Mullighan, Ames Research Center, NASA - jbm@vision.arc.nasa.gov

• Stefan Schaal, Georgia Tech - sschaal@cc.gatech.edu

• Mark Tilden, Los Alamos - mwtilden@lanl.gov

• Paul Verschure - paul@fuzzy.ucsc.edu

• Paul Viola, Salk, UCSD - viola@salk.edu

• Adrian Whatley, Research Machines

• Tetsu Yagi, Kyushu Institute of Technology - yagi@salk.edu

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 Delbrück 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 Delbrück II. Silicon sensors

  • Garbis Salgian III. Computing color and motion

• Afternoon:

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

  • Tobi Delbrück 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 Delbrück 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 Delbrück 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 Delbrück 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 Delbrück 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 Participants

Organizers:

• Dana Ballard (Univ. Rochester) - dana@cs.rochester.edu

• Rodney Douglas(INI/Zürich) - rjd@neuroinf.ethz.ch

• Christof Koch (Klab/Caltech) - koch@klab.caltech.edu

• Misha Mahowald (INI/Zürich) - misha@neuroinf.ethz.ch

• Terry Sejnowski (CNL/Salk Institute,UCSD) - terry@salk.edu

Our Telluride Summer Research Center Liason

• Rochelle Chambers - telluride_academy@infozone.org

Technical Personnel:

• Tim Horiuchi, (Klab/Caltech) - timmer@klab.caltech.edu

• Giacomo Indiveri, (Klab/Caltech) - giacomo@klab.caltech.edu

• Jörg Kramer, (INI/Zürich, Klab/Caltech) - kramer@klab.caltech.edu

• Dave Lawrence, (INI/Zürich) - dave@neuroinf.ethz.ch

• Matt Marjanovic, MIT/AI Lab - maddog@ai.mit.edu

• Bryan Nielsen (CNL/Salk Institute) - bryan@salk.edu

• Raj Rao, (Ballard Lab/Univ. Rochester) - rao@cs.rochester.edu

Participants

• Lex Akers, EE/Arizona - lakers@asu.edu

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

• Kwabena Boahen, Carverland/Caltech - Buster@pcmp.caltech.edu

• David Bramwell, Univ. Newcastle - d.i.bramwell@ncl.ac.uk

• Gert Cauwenberghs - ECE/Johns Hopkins - gert@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu

• Avis Cohen, , CNACS/Univ. Maryland, College Park - avis@ipst.umd.edu

• Catherine Jane Collin, EE / CNS / Univ. Edinburgh - cjc@ee.ed.ac.uk

• David Croft, Tanner Research - croft@tanner.com

• Allistair Crowe, Univ. Sheffield - alistair@aivru.shef.ac.uk

• Tobi Delbrück, Synaptics/NationalSemiconductor - tobi@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Rainer Deutschmann, Munich - rdeutsch@physik.tu-muenchen.de

• Steve DeWeerth, NMS/Georgia Tech - steve.deweerth@eecom.gatech.edu

• Chris Diorio,Carverland/Caltech - chris@pcmp.caltech.edu

• John Elias, University of Delaware - elias@ee.udel.edu

• Miguel Arias Estrada, LVSN/Univ. Laval - ariasmig@gel.ulaval.ca

• Ralph Etienne-Cummings, EE/SIU - etienne@engr.siu.edu

• Winfried Fellenz, Univ. Paderborn - getfell@get.uni-paderborn.de

• Stefano Fusi, Physics National Institute (Rome) - fusi@roma1.infn.it - fusi@ilios.fiz.huji.il

• Mark Glover, EE/Univ. Edinburgh - mag@ee.ed.ac.uk

• Dani Goldberg, Interaction Lab/Brandeis- dani@cs.brandeis.edu

• Wolfgang Himmelbauer, ECE/Johns Hopkins - wolfgang@olympus.ece.jhu.edu

• Geoffrey Hinton, AI/Univ. Toronto - hinton@cs.toronto.edu

• Ian Horswill, ILS/Northwestern - ian@ils.nwu.edu

• Marwan Jabri, SEDAL/Univ. Sydney - marwan@sedal.su.oz.au

• Ranu Jung, Univ. Kentucky - jung@pop.uky.edu

• Martin Lades, ISCR/LLNL - hml@llnl.gov

• M. Anthony Lewis, CS/UCLA - tlewis@cs.ucla.edu

• Marinus Maris, INI/Zürich - maris@ifi.inizh.ch

• Maja Mataric, Interaction Lab/Brandeis - maja@cs.brandeis.edu

• Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, Northwestern - sandro@parker.physio.nwu.edu

• Shih-chii Liu,Carverland/Caltech - shih@pcmp.caltech.edu

• Tonia Morris, NMS/Georgia Tech - tmorris@eecom.gatech.edu

• Girish Patel, NMS/Georgia Tech - girish@ece.gatech.edu

• Timothy Pearce, Engr/Univ. Derby - t.c.pearce@derby.ac.uk

• Luigi Raffo, Univ. Cagliari - luigi@diee.unica.it

• Signe Redfield, ECE/Univ. Florida - signe@eel.ufl.edu

• Stefan Schaal, Georgia Tech - sschaal@cc.gatech.edu

• Sebastian Seung, Lucent Technologies - seung@bell-labs.com

• Udy Shrivastava, Intel - udy_a_shrivastava@ccm.ch.intel.com

• Shiva Sinha, CNACS/Univ. Maryland - sinha@wam.umd.edu

• Tim Smithers, Basque University - ccpsmsmt@si.ehu.es

• Dagmar Sternad,Health & Human Dev/Penn State - dxs48@psu.edu

• Susanne Still, INI/Zürich - sus@neuroinf.ethz.ch

• Mark Tilden, Los Alamos National Labs - mwtilden@lanl.gov

• Chris Toumazou, EE/Imperial College, London - c.toumazou@ic.ac.uk

• Paul F.M.J. Verschure - pfmjv@neuroinf.ethz.ch

• Paul Viola, AI Lab/MIT - viola@ai.mit.edu

• Barbara Webb, AI/Univ. Nottingham - bhw@psyc.nott.ac.uk

• Wayne Westerman, Elias Lab,EECIS/Univ. Delaware - westerma@ee.udel.edu

• Laurenz Wiskott, CNL/Salk Institute - wiskott@salk.edu

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

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 Delbrück       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 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 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

• Evening:

  • 18:00 Welcome cocktail party (Wendy Brooks' House - click here for a map)

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

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 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:

  • 9:00 - 10:30 Shihab Shamma Auditory processing

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Lloyd Watts Auditory processing

• 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 -