Annual Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering

Telluride研讨会源于NSF的一项战略决定，该决定旨在鼓励神经科学和工程学之间的接口。该建议是由美国国家科学基金会组织并资助一个实践研讨会，以召集一个对探索神经形态工程感兴趣的国际科学家小组。这一新领域致力于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，其结构和设计原则以生物神经系统为基础。从那时起，每年都会举行为期三周的Telluride研讨会(参见Telluride主页：http://www.ini.unizh.ch/telluride2000/).工作坊包括背景讲座、模拟VLSI设计实践教程、动手项目和特殊兴趣小组。有两个涵盖一般材料的每日教程。参与者可以在下午自由地探索他们选择的话题；而项目和兴趣小组在下午晚些时候和晚餐后会面。大约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、机器人学、计算机科学、神经生理学、电气工程和计算神经科学。该研讨会提供细胞和系统神经科学、模拟VLSI设计、仿真、布局和测试的所有方面以及感应器运动集成和主动视觉系统的背景材料。工作组在多个领域建立，如机器人和中央图案生成器、感应器运动交互、芯片间通信、主动视觉、听力和空间定位，使用视觉和听力、注意力和选择、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.