Workshop: Annual Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering: June 29 thru July 19, 1998: Telluride, CO

这个项目是在科罗拉多州特勒里德举行的一系列为期3周的年度实践研讨会。神经形态工程学是一门与计算神经科学通常的推动力背道而驰的学科，它将自己定位于从对神经系统设计原理的理解中衍生出工程设备。通过这样做，它对神经生物学研究产生了独特的有益影响。一方面，它背离了基于线性模拟设备或毫不掩饰的数字设备(例如大多数现代计算机)的通常工程原理，因此有助于开发出像生物有机体那样在高度可变的外部条件下顺利运行的机器人。另一方面，它推动了生物学研究，因为生物学家通常无法提供(而且可能倾向于避免)对神经系统设计方式提出的问题的量化细节水平。工作坊包括关于神经形态工程的一般和实用主题的指导式讲座、关于超大规模集成电路、电路、“浮动门”技术的实践课程、短期和长期实践项目(例如，制造带有神经形态控制电路的机器人)。资金部分用于资助教职员工和学生共计约60人(教职员工、学生、教职员工)的旅费。

IBN 98-03836 Shihab Shamma, P.I. This project is a series of annual 3-week hands-on workshops held in Telluride, Colorado. Neuromorphic engineering is a discipline which reverses the usual thrust of computational neuroscience, orienting itself toward the derivation of engineered devices from an understanding of the design principles of the nervous system. In so doing, it is having a unique beneficial effect on neurobiology research. On the one hand, it represents a departure from the usual engineering principles based on linear analog devices or unabashedly digital ones (e.g. most modern computers), and hence is contributing to development of robots which perform smoothly under highly variable external conditions the way biological organisms do. On the other hand, it drives biological research because biologists typically cannot supply (and may tend to avoid) the level of quantitative detail of questioning asked about the way the nervous system is designed. The workshop involves tutorial-style lectures on general as well as practical topics in neuromorphic engineering, practical courses on VLSI, circuits, "floating gate" technology; both short and long hands-on projects (e.g building robots with neuromorphic control circuits). Funding is partially supporting travel for faculty and students for a total of around 60 persons (faculty, students, staff).