6th March 2020: We are sorry to announce that NICE 2020, scheduled to be held on March 17-20 2020, will be postponed to a later date. Please see here for the new date in March 2021
NEUROTECH event: Future Application Directions for Neuromorphic Computing Technologies: agenda and registration (free, but mandatory). A half-day event with special focus on potential application of neuromorphic computing.
Travel info:
Getting to the venue:
the nearest tram stop to the meeting venue is "Heidelberg Bunsengymnasium" (marked in the map linked above) [online timetable]https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de//bin/query.exe/en?Z=Neuenheim+Bunsengymnasium,+Heidelberg), provided by German Railway. Here you can also buy tickets online
via Railway from the train station directly attached to the airport "Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof": online timetable by German Railway (tickets are also sold online via this website)
via airport shuttle service directly to the hotel. We have good experience with TLS Heidelberg. A single, shared ride costs about 40 Euro / person / ride
Hotels:
These hotels are relatively close to the meeting venue (Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, see the map above). A lot more hotels are listed in online hotel booking sites (e.g. on booking.com)
(The group photo will be placed on the internet. By showing up for the photo you grant your permission for the publication of the photo)
14:45‑15:05 (20+5 min)
Why is Neuromorphic Event-based Engineering the future of AI?
While neuromorphic vision sensors and processors are becoming more available and usable by laymen and although they outperform existing devices specially in the case of sensing, there are still no successful commercial applications that allowed them to overtake conventional computation and sensing. In this presentation, I will provide insights on what are the missing key steps that are preventing this new computational revolution to happen. I will give an overview of neuromorphic, event-based approaches for image sensing and processing and how these have the potential to radically change current AI technologies and open new frontiers in building intelligent machines. I will focus on what is intended by event-based computation and the urge to process information in the time domain rather than recycling old concepts such as images, backpropagation and any form of frame-based approach. I will introduce new models of machine learning based on spike timings and show the importance of being compatible with neurosciences findings and recorded data. Finally, I will provide new insights on how to build neuromorphic neural processors able to operate these new AI and the urge to move to new architectural concepts.
15:10‑15:30 (20+5 min)
Neuromorphic and AI research at BCAI (Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
NICE 2020, Tutorials day: NOTE: NICE will be POSTPONED!
The tutorial day can be booked as one of the registration options. On the tutorial day hands-on interactive tutorials with several different neuromorphic compute systems will be offered:
Intel Loihi platform tutorial (Lecture style. To follow along from your own laptop your need to engage with Intel’s Intel’s Neuromorphic Research Community beforehand (email inrc_interest@intel.com for more information).