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)
Natural density cortical models as benchmarks for universal neuromorphic computers
Markus Diesmann
11:55‑12:15 (20+5 min)
Platform-Agnostic Neural Algorithm Composition using Fugu
Spiking neural networks and corresponding neuromorphic hardware are undergoing an uptick in interest as key milestones are accomplished by industry, academic and government research groups. Unfortunately, from an end-user’s perspective, testing or deploying applications on a neuromorphic platform is very challenging and often infeasible. We hope to address two common and key challenges, portability and composition, by the creation of an overarching software framework called Fugu. Fugu allows for spiking neural algorithms, created by independent designers, to be combined seamlessly in a scalable and target- platform-agnostic manner. This resulting intermediate representation is then translatable to multiple neuromorphic hardware backends.
Acknowledgements: Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.
William Severa
12:20‑12:40 (20+5 min)
Programming neuromorphic computers: PyNN and beyond
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).