NICE 2024

NICE’2024 took place at the Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla, California, United States of America on April 23-25, 2024. The tutorial day on April 26 took place at the UC San Diego Supercomputer center.

  • Tuesday, 23 April 2024 – Thursday, 25 April 2024 for the main workshop
  • Friday, 26 April 2024 for the parallel hands-on tutorials

Agenda

The agenda of NICE 2024 is available here (also available as agenda with all abstracts unfolded. In the title item of the agenda for the first day there are links to display the agenda with different time zones).

Registration

Online registration was open until 9 April 2024. Please see the registration page for options and the link to the online registration form.

Venue in La Jolla

The venue is Scripps Seaside Forum right on the beach for three days of inspiring keynotes and lectures, interactive posters, and live demonstrations, with an extra day of illuminating tutorials at the nearby UC San Diego Institute for Neural Computation.

See the NICE 2024 venue information page for a map and a list of hotels offering special conditions for NICE attendants.

Important dates

    • Paper, abstract, and tutorial submissions due: January 22, 2024
    • Acceptance decision notifications sent: February 29, 2024
    • Late Breaking News Abstracts Due: March 25th, 2024 (UTC).
      Please submit the short talk suggestion here on easychair (follow the “author” link, then click “New submission”).
    • Early Registration due: March 25, 2024
    • Late Breaking News Abstracts Decision Notification: March 31st, 2024
    • Regular Registration ends on April 2, 2024
    • Pre-booked hotel room blocks (see the venue page) expire on April 3, 2024
    • Camera Ready Papers Due: April 16, 2024 AoE (Instructions from the publisher are pending)
    • Regular registration cut of on April 9, 2024
    • Registration for online listen-in possible since April 10, 2024
    • Neuromorphic Living Systems Workshop Workshop: April 22, 2024 (cancelled)
    • NICE Conference: April 23-25, 2024
    • NICE Tutorials day: April 26, 2024

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.

Tutorials (Friday, April 26)

On Friday  9 tutorials in 3 slots with 2h each with 3 tutorials in parallel took place.

  • Slot 1
    • Simulation Tool for Asynchronous Cortical Streams (STACS)
    • Hands-on tutorial: BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute system (via the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure )
    • An Integrated Toolbox for Creating Neuromorphic Edge Applications
  • Slot 2
    • Neuromorphic Intermediate Representation
    • Building Scalable, Composable Spiking Neural Algorithms with Fugu (An Introduction)
    • An Introduction to Design and Simulation using SNS-Toolbox and SNSTorch
  • Slot 3
    • N2A – neural programming language and workbench
    • SANA-FE: Simulating Advanced Neuromorphic Architectures for Fast Exploration
    • CrossSim: A Hardware/Software Co-Design Tool for Analog In-Memory Computing

Conference List of Topics

Listed below are the topics for the conference, together with a non-exhaustive list of relevant sub-topics. During submission, please indicate which of the following topics your paper impacts:

  • Architectures and Hardware 
    • Neuromorphic Hardware
    • Analog/Mixed-Signal and Beyond-CMOS Hardware
    • Compute-In-Memory Architectures
    • Next-Generation Architectures
  • Computational and Systems Neuroscience
    • Neural circuits: Theory and Experimental Support
    • Local learning and Plasticity
    • Connectomics
  • Neural Algorithms and Machine Learning
    • Neuroscience-Inspired Algorithms
    • Resource-Constrained and/or Hardware-Aware Artificial Neural Networks
    • Spiking Neural Networks
  • Neuromorphic Computing Applications
    • Emerging Applications
    • Robotics and Automation
    • High-Performance Computing
    • Edge Computing
    • Biosignal Processing and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Bio-Inspired Sensing
    • Event-Driven Sensing
    • Novel Neuromorphic Sensors
    • Efficient Spike-Based Information Coding and Processing
  • Algorithms and Software Frameworks for Neuromorphic Computing
    • Tools and Programming/Mapping Frameworks
    • Benchmarks, Neuromorphic Datasets
    • Theoretical Frameworks and Models for Neuromorphic Engineering
    • Memory-efficient Spike-Based Simulators

Committees

Program Chairs

  • Suma G. Cardwell (Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Charlotte Frenkel (TU Delft)

Organizing Committee

  • Gert Cauwenberghs (UCSD)
  • Murat Okandan (NICE Workshop Foundation)
  • Brad Aimone (Sandia National Laboratories)
  • Steve Furber (University of Manchester)
  • Johannes Schemmel (Heidelberg University)
  • Dhireesha Kudithipudi (UT San Antonio)
  • Bjorn Kindler (Heidelberg University)
  • Mike Davies (Intel)

Local Chairs

  • Gert Cauwenberghs (UCSD)
  • Duygu Kuzum (UCSD)
  • Tajana Rosing (UCSD)

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following organizations contributing to the success of NICE 2024:

UC San Diego
Institute for Neural Computation
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Aizip
BrainChip