NICE 2016 took place at UC Berkeley,
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Workshop focus
Conventional, stored program architecture systems are designed for algorithmic and exact calculations. However, the problems with highest impact involve large, noisy, incomplete, “natural” data sets that do not lend themselves to convenient solutions by current systems. Our task is to build upon the convergence among neuroscience, microelectronics and computational systems to develop a new architecture designed to handle these natural data sets. The applications and clarification of the value proposition for new neuro-inspired, neuromorphic systems are critical focal points of this workshop.
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Goal
By bringing together researchers from different scientific disciplines and applications, we seek to provide a nucleation point for the development of next generation information processing and computation architectures that go beyond stored program architecture and Moore’s Law limits.
At this workshop, we will:
- Present applications that are looking for solutions that are beyond the capabilities of current computational systems
- Highlight technical approaches that are at the early to middle stages of development for new computational systems
- Identify pathways and resources to accelerate the development of these new systems
Themes
Neuroscience: Sensory information processing in cells and circuits, mechanisms of plasticity, learning and development.
Theory: Theoretical principles of brain information processing, sparse coding, stochastic computing, the role of spikes, Bayesian computing.
Algorithms: Computational synthesis of brain information processing, deep learning.
Platforms/Hardware: Massively parallel neuromorphic hardware architectures, application of commodity systems, novel digital, analog and mixed-signal architectures, application of novel devices.
Applications: Robotics, spatio-temporal pattern detection, causal relations in big data, prediction, approximate computing.
Agenda
Day 1 – March 7, 2016
Sessions – 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Welcome Reception – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Day 2 – March 8, 2016
Sessions – 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Dinner – 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Claremont Hotel
Day 3 – March 9, 2016
Sessions 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Agenda
Click here to view all of the presentations (>> NICE 2016 Workshop playlist, UC Berkeley events channel on youtube). You can also download slides from some of the presentations. See links to download in agenda below.
| Monday, March 7, 2016 | * | Tuesday, March 8, 2016 | * | Wednesday, March 9, 2016 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Welcome | 8:00 am | Welcome | 8:00 am | Welcome | ||
| 8:10 am | Programmatic overview: Thomas Potok (ORNL) Karlheinz Meier (EU HBP) Jacob Vogelstein (IARPA) Bruce Hendrickson (Sandia) | 8:15 am | Steve Furber (University of Manchester) SpiNNaker update | 8:10 am | Theme 3 overview – Approximate Computing | ||
| 9:00 am | Thomas Nowotny and Michael Schmuker (University of Sussex) COMPARING NEUROMORPHIC SOLUTIONS IN ACTION | 9:00 am | Conrad James (Sandia) | 8:15 am | Ila Fiete (UT Austin) | ||
| 9:25 am | Amir Khosrowshahi (Nervana) Rethinking computation: a processor architecture for machine intelligence | 9:25 am | Narayan Srinivasa (Intel) | 8:45 am | Joe Bates (Singular Computing) Practical Approximate Computing | ||
| 9:50 am | Break | 9:50 am | Break | 9:15 am | Theme 4 overview – Co-local Computing and Memory | ||
| 10:10 am | Christof Koch (Allen Institute for Brain Science) Understanding Cortex in an Open Access and High Throughput Manner | 10:10 am | Pentti Kanerva (UC Berkeley) Computing with Hypervectors | 9:20 am | Surya Ganguli (Stanford) | ||
| 10:55 am | Paul Rhodes (Specific Technologies, Evolved Machines) | 10:35 am | Speaker unable to attend | 9:50 am | William Dally (NVIDIA, Stanford) | ||
| 11:20 am | 3×10 minute lightning talks: Lloyd Watts (Neocortix) A Platform For Intelligence Sek Chai (SRI) Deep Temporal Models Brad Aimone (Sandia) Modulating Neural Computation | 11:00 am | 3×10 minute lightning talks: Paul Franzon (NCSU) Katie Schumann (ORNL) Evolutionary Optimization: A Training Method for Neuromorphic Systems ( Mihai Petrovici (Univ. of Heidelberg) Stochastic inference with deterministic spiking neurons | 10:20 am | Break | ||
| 11:55 am | Lunch | 11:45 am | Lunch | 10:40 am | Bruce Hendrickson (Sandia) Summary of Conference | ||
| 1:00 pm | Dharmendra Modha (IBM) TrueNorth: Recent Advances in Technology and Ecosystem | 1:00 pm | Rod Rinkus (Neurithmic Systems) Sparse Distributed Representation Trumps Machine Parallelism for Improving Computational Efficiency | 11:00 am | Computing and Neuroscience Discussion | ||
| 1:25 pm | Alice Parker (USC) Tradeoffs in Neuromorphic Circuit Design: Reliability, Efficiency, Density of Computations, Power, and Biomimicity | 1:25 pm | Jeff Hawkins (Numenta) What is Intelligence, that a Machine Might Have Some? | 12:00 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:50 pm | Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience) Beyond inspiration: Three lessons from biology on building intelligent machines | 1:50 pm | Giacomo Indiveri (University of Zurich) Neuromorphic electronic circuits as key enablers of autonomous cognitive agents | 1:00 pm | Max Di Ventra (UCSD) | ||
| 2:15 pm | Poster and demo overview | 2:15 pm | Break with posters | 1:25 pm | Jesse Engel (Baidu) | ||
| 2:35 pm | Break with posters | 2:35 pm | Theme 1 overview – Spike Based Representations | 1:50 pm | 4×10 minute lightning talks: Kristofer Bouchard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Tarek Taha (Univ. of Dayton) William Severa (Sandia) Dhireesha Kudithipudi (RIT) | ||
| 3:00 pm | Dan Hammerstrom (DARPA) UPSIDE / Cortical Processor Study | 2:40 pm | Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universitat Graz) Principles of network optimization through STDP and rewiring | 2:35 pm | Break with posters | ||
| 3:20 pm | Karlheinz Meier (EU HBP) Neuromorphic Computing in the European Human Brain Project | 3:10 pm | Aurel Lazar (Columbia) NeuroInformation Processing Machines | 3:00 pm | Arvind Kumar and Winfried Wilcke (IBM) 3D Wafer Scale Integration: A Scaling Path to an Intelligent Machine | ||
| 3:40 pm | Kris Bhaskar (KLA/Tencor) | 3:40 pm | Theme 2 overview – Asynchronous Computing | 3:20 pm | Gert Cauwenberghs (UCSD) Reverse Engineering the Cognitive Brain in Silicon | ||
| 4:05 pm | Christos Papadmitriou (UC Berkeley) | 3:45 pm | Fritz Sommer (UC Berkeley, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience) | 3:40 pm | Johannes Schemmel (University of Heidelberg) Accelerated Analog Neuromorphic Hardware | ||
| 4:30 pm | Panel discussion/open mic | 4:15 pm | Rajit Manohar (Cornell) Asynchronous Logic: A Computer Systems Perspective | 4:05 pm | Garrett Rose (University of Tennessee – Knoxville) A Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array | ||
| 6:00 pm | Dinner at Clark Kerr | 4:45 pm | Panel discussion/open mic | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Panel discussion/open mic | ||
| 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Poster and demo session open | 6:15 pm – 8:00 pm | Hosted dinner at The Claremont Hotel | ||||
Invited Speakers (Confirmed)
Steve Zornetzer, NASA Ames
Steve Furber, University of Manchester
Winfried Wilcke, IBM
Wolfang Maass, Technische Universität Graz
Michael Schmuker, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Giacomo Indiveri, Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich
David Kirk, Nvidia
Alice Parker, USC
Amir Khosrowshahi, Nervana Systems
Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories
Dharmendra Modha, IBM
Organizers
Daniel Hammerstrom, DARPA
Karlheinz Meier, University of Heidelberg
James B. Aimone, Sandia National Laboratories
Jacob Vogelstein, IARPA
Robinson Pino, DOE Office of Science
Paul Rhodes, Evolved Machines
Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley, Redwood Neuroscience Institute
Murat Okandan, NICE Workshop Foundation
Sponsors
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (2016 workshop host)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Human Brain Project
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Sandia National Laboratories
Department of Energy Office of Science
Registration
Interested in attending this workshop? All attendees and speakers must register. Please click here to register.* If you are interested in presenting at the workshop, we ask that you submit an abstract (1 page max pdf) during registration. There is an opportunity to upload abstracts for a talk or the Student Poster Competition at the bottom of the “personal information” page. After your information is entered you will be asked to pay. The 3 day event costs $275.00 per person, plus processing fees.
*If you would like to reserve a spot at the workshop but cannot pay at this time, you can pre-register here.
Additional Info
Parking
Parking at the Clark Kerr Conference center is $10 per day.
Hotels
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Claremont Hotel for $219 per night, plus taxes and fees. Parking at the hotel is an additional $20 per day. You will get more information about how to reserve a room in our block during registration.