Annual Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering

特柳赖德研讨会源于美国国家科学基金会的一项战略决策，该决策旨在鼓励神经科学与工程学之间的结合。建议NSF组织和资助一个实践研讨会，召集一个对探索神经形态工程感兴趣的国际科学家小组。这一新领域旨在设计和制造人工神经系统，如视觉系统、头眼系统、听觉系统和自主机器人，其结构和设计原理基于生物神经系统。从那时起，每年举行为期三周的特柳赖德讲习班。Telluride主页（http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride2000/）。研讨会包括背景讲座，模拟vlsiddesign的实践教程，动手项目和特殊兴趣小组。有两个日常教程涵盖一般材料。参加者可在下午自由探讨自己选择的主题；而项目和兴趣小组在下午晚些时候和晚饭后开会。大约有60人被邀请参加研讨会。参与者来自学术界、政府实验室和工业界。背景涵盖物理学、机器人、计算机科学、神经生理学、电子工程和计算神经科学。研讨会提供了细胞和系统神经科学的背景材料，模拟VLSI设计，仿真，布局和测试的各个方面，以及感觉运动集成和主动视觉系统。工作组建立在各种领域，如机器人和中央模式发生器，感觉运动交互，芯片间通信，主动视觉，听觉和空间定位使用视觉和听觉，注意和选择，运动和工业应用。

The Telluride Workshops arose from a strategic decision by the NSF toencourage the interface between Neuroscience and Engineering. Therecommendation was for NSF to organize and fund a hands-on workshop to drawtogether an international group of scientists interested in exploringneuromorphic engineering. This new field seeks to design and fabricateartificial neural systems, such as vision systems, head-eye systems,auditory systems and autonomous robots, whose architecture and designprinciples are based on those of biological nervous systems.The three-week long Telluride Workshops, have been held annually since then(cf. the Telluride homepage at http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride2000/). Theworkshop includes background lectures, practical tutorials on analog VLSIdesign, hands-on projects, and special interest groups. There are two dailytutorials covering general material. Participants are free to explore topicsof their own choosing in the afternoon; while projects and interest groupsmeet in the late afternoons, and after dinner.About 60 people are invited to the workshop. Participants are from academia,government laboratories, and industry. Backgrounds span physics, robotics,computer science, neurophysiology, electrical engineering, and computationalneuroscience. The workshop provides background material in cellular andsystems neuroscience, all aspects of analog VLSI design, simulation, layout,and testing as well as sensorimotor integration and active vision systems.Working groups are established in a variety of areas such as robotics andCentral Pattern Generators, sensorimotor interactions, inter-chipcommunications, active vision, audition, and spatial localization usingvision and audition together, attention and selection, locomotion andindustrial applications.