Call for Topic Area Proposals
2013 Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop
Telluride, Colorado, June 30 -July 20, 2013
We are now accepting proposals for Topic Areas in the 2013 Telluride
Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop. We support topics and
projects in neuromorphic cognition, particularly those that involve
solving challenging 'everyday' tasks that incorporate domain-specific
knowledge, exploration, prediction, and problem solving. In particular,
we are interested in projects that hold promise for addressing Grand
Challenge types of problems that do not have strong solutions of any
form, neuromorphic or not. These Challenge problems should feature
long-duration sensorimotor problems that involve autonomous cognitive
decision making. Examples might include tasks such as learning a new
language, navigating through an unknown environment to locate an object
or reach a desired location, adaptively manipulating unknown or complex
objects in the service of a task, playing a game requiring inference of
hidden information or long-term planning and learning, etc. Proposals
related to hardware technologies that aim to bring these capabilities to
reality are also encouraged. Topic proposals that aim to solve a
particular problem using the multidisciplinary experience of
participants will be favored over topics that simply gather a large
number of people working within a discipline, or using a single
technology, or approach.
Topic areas for this summer's Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition
Engineering Workshop will be chosen from proposals submitted to the
organizers.
Important: Due to the nature of our NSF grant (primary funding source),
two topic areas are already established: "Interpreting actions of
manipulation" and "Human-robot cooperation in the identification of
speakers and exploration of space". We will also have a "Future hardware
technologies" tutorial/projects group.
Topic areas can span a large field; we are looking for leadership in
planning activities and inviting good people in a field. Although past
topic areas have tended to be very broad and discipline-oriented (e.g.,
cognition, audition, vision, robotics, neural interfacing, neuromorphic
VLSI, etc.), application-oriented topic areas (e.g., sensor fusion,
game-playing robot, object recognition, sound localization, human robot
interaction, etc.) are especially desirable.
Topic area leaders will receive housing for themselves and their
invitees, and limited travel funds. Topic area leaders will help to
define the field of neuromorphic cognition engineering through the
projects they pursue and the people they invite. They shape their topic
by inviting speakers and project leaders (the invitees) and by
initiating topic area project discussions prior to the workshop.
Teams of two organizers are required. One of the organizers should be an
attendee of a previous Telluride Workshop (in any capacity) and has
stayed at the Workshop for at least one week.
Pre-workshop topic area choices and study assignments.
Before the workshop begins, each topic area will be required to prepare
and distribute study materials that constitute: 1) an introductory
presentation (e.g., pptx, video, review paper) of the fundamental
knowledge associated with the topic area that everyone at the workshop
should be exposed to, and 2) a few critical papers that the participants
in the topic area should read before the workshop. The topic area should
3) begin a serious group discussion of the projects (e.g., via Facebook,
Skype, email, etc).
The maximum 2-page proposals should include:
1. Title of topic area.
2. Names of the two topic leaders, their affiliations, and contact
information (email
addresses!).
3. A paragraph explaining the focus and goals of the topic area.
4. A list of possible specific topic area projects.
5. A list of example invitees (up to six names and institutions). No
commitments necessary.
6. Any other material that fits within the two-page limit that will help
us make a smart
choice.
Send your topic area proposal in pdf or text format to
organizers13@neuromorphs.net with subject line containing "topic area
proposal".
Proposals must be received by January 7, 2013; proposals received after
the deadline may still be considered if space is available.
Resources limit the workshop to roughly 2 additional topic areas, each
with 5 invitees. If your proposal for the topic area is not accepted, we
will work with you to see if there is a natural way to include your
ideas (and you) into the accepted topic areas. We hope to have
significant turn-over each year in the topic areas and leaders to ensure
fresh new ideas and participants.
See the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (www.ine-web.org) for
background information on the workshop and neuromorphs.net for past
workshop wikis.
We look forward to your topic proposals!
Deadline: January 7, 2013
The Workshop Directors:
Cornelia Fermüller (University of Maryland), Ralph Etienne-Cummings
(Johns Hopkins Univ.) Shih-Chii Liu (University of Zurich and ETH
Zurich), Timmer Horiuchi (University of Maryland)
Former Directors:
Tobi Delbruck (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)
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Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
105 Barton Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: (410) 516 3494
Fax: (410) 516 2939
Email: retienne@jhu.edu
URL: http://etienne.ece.jhu.edu/
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