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)
Lightning talk: Comparing Neural Accelerators & Neuromorphic Architectures The False Idol of Operations
Craig Vineyard, Sam Green and Mark Plagge
Accompanying the advanced computing capabilities neural networks are enabling across a suite of application domains, there is a resurgence in interest in understanding what architectures can efficiently enable these advanced computational demands. Both neural accelerators and neuromorphic approaches are emerging at different scales, resource requirements, and enabling capabilities. Beyond the similarity of executing neural network workloads, these two paradigms exhibit significant differences. As processing, memory, and communication are the core tenets of computing, here we compare architectures of neural accelerators and neuromorphic in these terms. Specifically we show that operations alone are a lacking singular measure of performance due to contrasting computational goals. These differing computational paradigms, to maximize the amount of computations performed or to compute as needed, are analogous to maximin and minimax decision theory reasoning. The differing objectives make neural accelerator and neuromorphic architectural choices suited to enable different computational demands.
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).