{"id":54,"date":"2014-11-19T02:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/?p=54"},"modified":"2015-02-27T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T18:25:00","slug":"54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Inspired Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended two events,<br \/>\nNSF review and workshop at Penn State to discuss progress within the NSF Expeditions in Computing Program, <a title=\"Visual Cortex on Silicon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.psu.edu\/research\/visualcortexonsilicon.expedition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Cortex on Silicon<\/a>. Speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vijaykrishnan Narayanan (Penn State)<\/li>\n<li>Steve Levitan (UPitt)<\/li>\n<li>Laurent Itti (USC)<\/li>\n<li>Jack Carol (Penn State)<\/li>\n<li>Dan Kifer (Penn State)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IBM&#8217;s Cognitive Computing Colloquium at IBM Research, Almaden hosted by IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Brain-Inspired Computing, <a title=\"Dharmendra Modha Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dharmendra Modha<\/a>. The event covered a wide variety of topics from neuroscience, computing, and included an in-depth set of talks about the <a title=\"True North\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6197\/668.full?ijkey=NXLTXoR0E.VmA&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\" target=\"_blank\">TrueNorth<\/a> Architecture, Programming Model, Simulators, and Platforms. Speakers included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andreas Andreou, Johns Hopkins<\/li>\n<li>Dharmendra S Modha, IBM Fellow, IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing<\/li>\n<li>Fei-Fei Li, Director, AI Lab, Stanford University<\/li>\n<li>Gary Marcus, NYU<\/li>\n<li>Gill Pratt, DARPA SyNAPSE Program Manager<\/li>\n<li>Horst Simon, Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab<\/li>\n<li>Karlheinz Meier, Co-Director, Human Brain Project, U. Heidelberg<\/li>\n<li>Mark Anderson, Future in Review and Strategic News Service<\/li>\n<li>Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science<\/li>\n<li>Miyoung Chun, Executive VP of Science Programs, Kavli Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Rajit Manohar, Cornell University, Associate Dean<\/li>\n<li>Richard Cytowic, Author of <i>Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Jayashree Subrahmonia, Vice President, Products, IBM Watson Group<\/li>\n<li>Tobi Delbruck, Co-Founder, iniLabs &amp; Professor, ETH<\/li>\n<li>Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, PI, NSF Expeditions in Computing, Professor, Penn State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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) &nbsp; IBM&#8217;s Cognitive Computing Colloquium at IBM Research, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brain-Inspired Computing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-brain-inspired-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeldebole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}