NeuroPAC Bulletin: February 2025

[Cornelia M. Fermuller]

February 2025

Accelerating Research on Neuromorphic Perception, Action, and Cognition See our Neuromorphic Calendar here In the News Brainchip’s IP for targeting AI applications at the edge EE Times Current, 7 February 2025 Dr Tony Lewis, Chief Technology Officer, and four other key scientists at Brainchip talk to Dr Sunny Bains of University College London. They discuss their business strategy, their temporal event-based neural network (TENN), and the next iteration of the Akida chip. Discussion follows with Dr Giulia D’Angelo from the Czech Technical University in Prague and Prof Ralph Etienne-Cummings of Johns Hopkins University… 2025 Misha Mahowald Prizes awarded Mahowald Prize, 6 February 2025 The team of Navid A. Aadit, Shuvro Chowdhury, Shaila Niazi, Kemal Selçuk, Nihal S. Singh, and Kerem Y. Çamsarı at UC Santa Barbara won the main prize for their work on Stochastic Neuromorphic Computing with Probabilistic Bits. Mark M. Iskarous at the Neuroengineering and Biomedical Instrumentation Lab, Johns Hopkins University, and Jens Egholm Pedersen at Neurocomputing Systems Lab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, won the early career awards… In a Nature article, an international research team charts the course for scalable neuromorphic computing systems Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 31 January 2025 A review article about the future of neuromorphic computing by a team of 23 researchers, including Chiara Bartolozzi from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) was published last week in Nature. The article, titled “Neuromorphic Computing at Scale,” examines the state of neuromorphic technology and presents a strategy for building large-scale neuromorphic systems. Chiara Bartolozzi is Principal Investigator of Event-Driven Perception for Robotics Lab at IIT in Genova whose aim is to apply the “neuromorphic”… ENERGIZE: a joint Korean-EU partnership for energy-efficient neuromorphic hardware AMO, 30 January 2025 The European Union, South Korea, and Switzerland have jointly launched the ambitious research project ENERGIZE, providing €3.6 million in funding to develop energy-efficient hardware based on two-dimensional (2D) materials for edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. ENERGIZE is one of the four projects selected through the joint EU-South Korea call in February 2024, focused on advancing critical but pre-commercial semiconductor technol… Click for more News and Blogs > Events 12 February @ 13:00 - 14:30 CET Seminar by Francky Catthoor: Where digital becomes almost-neural: variability phenomena at the extreme miniaturization limit of ‘classical’ microchips Online Francky Catthoor He is an expert with a life-long research record on (digital) microchip design, and he has also collaborated with neuromorphic computing researchers. In this special seminar, he will... Continue readingSeminar by Francky Catthoor: Where digital becomes almost-neural: variability phenomena at the extreme miniaturization limit of ‘classical’ microchips→ 24 - 28 February Winter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin Philippstr. 13, Haus 6 & 4, Berlin, Berlin, Germany The 14th Winter School "Ethics of Neuroscience and AI" is taking place on Feb 24 - Feb 28, 2025. It is organized by the BCCN Berlin/ICCN, the Berlin School of... Continue readingWinter School “Ethics of Neuroscience and AI” 2025→ 27 February Atoms to Bits: The AlphaBet of Intelligence v1.0 Kimpton Clocktower Hotel Oxford Street, Manchester, United Kingdom Welcome to the 1-day Brain-Inspired Computing Workshop, a University of Manchester organised event dedicated to connecting the worlds of emerging materials research, memristive device engineering, and the development of hybrid memristive-CMOS neuromorphic computing... Continue readingAtoms to Bits: The AlphaBet of Intelligence v1.0→ March 2025 6 - 7 March Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing Summit 2025 dbb forum, Berlin, Germany We warmly invite you to the second QNC Summit in Berlin! Take the opportunity to connect with the community of hardware developers for quantum and neuromorphic computing (QNC). Together, we... Continue readingQuantum and Neuromorphic Computing Summit 2025→ 12 March Accelerate Your Neuroscience Research with EBRAINS: EBRAINS tutorials and users day EINC - European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing Building Im Neuenheimer Feld 225a, Heidelberg, Germany 'Accelerate Your Neuroscience Research with EBRAINS: EBRAINS tutorials and users day' will take place on 12 March 2025 in Heidelberg, Germany. The EBRAINS tutorials and users day is aimed at... Continue readingAccelerate Your Neuroscience Research with EBRAINS: EBRAINS tutorials and users day→ 25 - 28 March NICE 2025: Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference EINC - European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing Building Im Neuenheimer Feld 225a, Heidelberg, Germany Conventional, stored program architecture systems are designed for algorithmic and exact calculations. However, problems with highest impact involve large, noisy and incomplete data sets that do not lend themselves to... Continue readingNICE 2025: Neuro Inspired Computational Elements Conference→ 27 March - 1 April COSYNE 2025 Montreal Montreal, Canada We are very happy to invite you to the 22nd annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference, taking place in Montreal, and Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada from 27 March to... Continue readingCOSYNE 2025→ Click for more Events >

Resources and Tools Neuromorphic Constrained Optimization Library lava-nc A library of solvers that leverage neuromorphic hardware for constrained optimization. Implemented on massively parallel neuromorphic hardware, such a spiking neural network can simultaneously evaluate conflicts and cost functions involving many variables, and update all variables accordingly. This allows a quick convergence towards an optimal state.... Rockpool SynSense Rockpool is a Python package for developing signal processing applications with spiking neural networks. Rockpool allows you to build networks, simulate, train and test them, deploy them either in simulation or on event-driven neuromorphic compute hardware.... Kaspersky Neuromorphic Platform KasperskyLab Platform for the spiking neural network execution. The Kaspersky Neuromorphic Platform ("KNP" or "platform") is a software platform for developing, training and executing spiking neural networks on a variety of computers.... Neuromorphic Quantum Computing in Simple Terms Dynex A digital twin of a physical neuromorphic quantum computing machine, which is operated on hundreds of thousands of GPUs in parallel, delivering unparalleled quantum computing performance at scale for real-world applications.... Event-based Normal Flow Estimator Dehao Yuan It is an easy-to-use API for event-based normal flow prediction. Official GitHub repo for "Learning Normal Flow Directly from Event Neighborhoods".... Neuromorphics Daily Arxiv Dengyu Wu Neuromorphic paper list, a comprehensive collection of the latest research in the field, is carefully curated and automatically updated every day at 8:00 am GMT to ensure readers have access to the most up-to-date information available.... Post your own, or look for more Resources and Tools > Neuromorphic World Map Check out and add yourself to our neuromorphic world map here.

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