History of Workshop
The genesis of the workshop lay largely in the labs of Carver Mead and Christof Koch at Caltech, and with Terry Sejnowski's lab at Salk Institute. Mead's was furiously developing the earliest neuromorphic electronic systems (see Mead's 1990 Proc. IEEE paper), and growing enthusiasm led to the first 2-day workshop gathering, in 1993, in a mountain condominium in Idyllwild, California. This gathering was documented by PBS in a Discovering Women in Science episode about Misha Mahowald. The event was organized by Terry Sejnowski (Salk Inst), Rodney Douglas (then at Oxford and visiting Caltech) and Christof Koch (Caltech) using a seed grant from the National Science Foundation.
The following year the workshop moved to Telluride. It has been there every since. It has been continuously supported by the US National Science Foundation for more than 25 years, and has brought together over 2000 researchers; see Past Workshops on this page and awards from the workshop.
Past Workshops
- Telluride Workshop 2019
- Telluride Workshop 2018
- Telluride Workshop 2017
- Telluride Workshop 2016
- Telluride Workshop 2015
- Telluride Workshop 2014
- Telluride Workshop 2013
- Telluride Workshop 2012
- Telluride Workshop 2011
- Telluride Workshop 2010
- Telluride Workshop 2009
- Telluride Workshop 2008
- Telluride Workshop 2007
- Telluride Workshop 2006
- Early History: 11 years of workshops from 1994 to 2005
From the 1994 workshop
From left: D Ballard, C Koch, M Tilden, R Douglas, S. Deiss, ?, ?, A Cohen, ?, M Mahowald, ?,?,? ?, ?, A Whatley, ?, K Boahen, R. Friedman, ?.
Front row: T Sejnowski, R Douglas, M Mahowald, S. Deiss, ?. 2nd row: P Vershure, T Horiuchi, A Cohen, ?, ?, A Whatley, T. Yagi. Back row: T Delbruck, ?, C Koch, ?, M Tilden, ?. 2nd from back row: J Kramer, K Boahen, SC Liu, S Deweerth