Last week I attended two events,
NSF review and workshop at Penn State to discuss progress within the NSF Expeditions in Computing Program, Visual Cortex on Silicon. Speakers included:
- Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (Penn State)
- Steve Levitan (UPitt)
- Laurent Itti (USC)
- Jack Carol (Penn State)
- Dan Kifer (Penn State)
IBM’s Cognitive Computing Colloquium at IBM Research, Almaden hosted by IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Brain-Inspired Computing, Dharmendra Modha. The event covered a wide variety of topics from neuroscience, computing, and included an in-depth set of talks about the TrueNorth Architecture, Programming Model, Simulators, and Platforms. Speakers included:
- Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins
- Dharmendra S Modha, IBM Fellow, IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing
- Fei-Fei Li, Director, AI Lab, Stanford University
- Gary Marcus, NYU
- Gill Pratt, DARPA SyNAPSE Program Manager
- Horst Simon, Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Karlheinz Meier, Co-Director, Human Brain Project, U. Heidelberg
- Mark Anderson, Future in Review and Strategic News Service
- Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science
- Miyoung Chun, Executive VP of Science Programs, Kavli Foundation
- Rajit Manohar, Cornell University, Associate Dean
- Richard Cytowic, Author of Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses
- Jayashree Subrahmonia, Vice President, Products, IBM Watson Group
- Tobi Delbruck, Co-Founder, iniLabs & Professor, ETH
- Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, PI, NSF Expeditions in Computing, Professor, Penn State