2021 INRC Winter Workshop

Note that some sessions will be open to folks currently not in the INRC, while others will be INRC Members only. Color will indicate session type.

Additionally, look here for pre-recorded sessions to be published in advance of the workshop. All sessions that are not restricted will be recorded and posted here for offline viewing during the week.

Color Coding For the Sessions

Color Coding For the Sessions

Audience

Content

INRC Engaged Members Only

Forward-looking confidential material will be covered

Not Restricted

Material focuses on Loihi results and projects

Not Restricted

General forward-looking topics

Pacific Standard Time

Monday February 8th

Tuesday February 9th

Wednesday February 10th

Thursday February 11th

Friday February 12th

Pacific Standard Time

Monday February 8th

Tuesday February 9th

Wednesday February 10th

Thursday February 11th

Friday February 12th

7:30

 

Office hours: bring your Loihi questions

Office hours: bring your Loihi questions

Perspectives from neuroscience: Wulfram Gerstner Neo-Hebbian three-factor rules of synaptic plasticity: from reward to surprise

Software Survey Feedback and Solicitation

@Shaojuan Zhu

8:00

Workshop Kick-Off
State of the INRC
@Mike Davies

link to recording

Algorithmic Frameworks for Neuromorphic computing

@E Paxon Frady @friedrich.sommer (Deactivated)

Audio Neuro Processing Session

Keyword Spotting, ASR, and Cochlea Models

@Daniel BD Rubin (Deactivated)

Solving the challenges of deep learning on neuromorphic hardware

Panel discussion on neuromorphic challenges and opportunities in deep learning.

@Andreas Wild @Garrick Orchard (Deactivated)

New Year's Resolutions for Neuromorphic Computing

@Timothy Shea (Deactivated) (Accenture)

8:45

Shihab Shamma: Learning Perception and Action through Sensorimotor Interactions

Invited Talk: 8:45-9:30

9:00

Workshop Session Intros (all)

Robotics Session I

Event-based vision, navigation, SLAM

@Yulia Sandamirskaya

 

link to recording

Neuromorphic Solutions for Optimization Problems II

A discussion on the future of (neuromorphic) optimization

@Sumedh Risbud

Advancing Lava

How to get involved and make sure Lava provides all you need

@David Florey (Deactivated) @Andreas Wild

9:30

Loihi 2 Announcement

Engaged INRC Members Only

@Mike Davies

Round Table Discussion on Audio neuro-processing

@Daniel BD Rubin (Deactivated)

10:00

Break (15 minutes)

10:15

Welcome to Lava

Feature overview and roadmap for our new SW framework

@Andreas Wild @David Florey (Deactivated)

Robotics Session II

Dynamics and movement control

@Yulia Sandamirskaya

Unlocking the potential of event-based vision with Loihi

Online learning and low-latency event-based vision examples on Loihi.

@Garrick Orchard (Deactivated)

Emerging Neuromorphic Sensors and Applications

The current state-of-the-art and future directions for event-based sensors.

@Garrick Orchard (Deactivated)

Using Loihi for Neuromorphic Education @David Florey (Deactivated) @Jon Tse (Unlicensed) @Sumedh Risbud

10:45

An Update from ABR on Nengo for Loihi and Beyond

@Eric Hunsberger

 

11:15

Latest DNN Results on Loihi

An overview of DNN result on Loihi.

@Garrick Orchard (Deactivated) @Andreas Wild

Neuromorphic Solutions for Optimization Problems I

Latest results and outlook in constraint satisfaction problems

@Sumedh Risbud

Loihi 2 Enhancements for DNNs

Engaged INRC Members Only

@Andreas Wild @Sumedh Risbud

Future of Brain Computer Interface

@Daniel BD Rubin (Deactivated)
@Yulia Sandamirskaya

Highlight Talk

Christoph Guger
Current and future applications of brain-computer interfaces

Robotics Session III

Panel discussion, follow-up of Robotics-1 and 2. Recordings of “tools“

@Yulia Sandamirskaya

11:45

Next Generation Systems Overview

Engaged INRC Members Only

@Jon Tse (Unlicensed)

How to further improve support for neuromorphic DNNs

@Andreas Wild @Sumedh Risbud

Scaling Up to Large Neuromorphic Systems

A discussion on the promise of, results from, and challenges in scaling up

@Sumedh Risbud

12:15

 

 

 

 

 

12:30

 

 

 

 

 

13:00

Office hours: General Q&A

Supporting Commercial Ecosystem Growth and Development

@Mike Davies

Office Hours: General

Continuing the discussion – Supporting Commercial Ecosystem Growth and Development

 

13:30

Office hours: Lava

 

 

14:00

Office hours: Benchmarking

 

 

 

 

14:30

Office hours:
SLAYER

@Sumit Bam Shrestha

 

Office Hours: General

Office Hours: General

 

15:00

 

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

 

 

 

16:30

 

 

 

 

 

17:00

 

 

 

 

 

17:30

 

 

 

 

 

18:00

Welcome to Lava

@Andreas Wild @David Florey (Deactivated)

(Repeat Live Session)

Office Hours: General

 

 

 

18:30

 

 

 

 

19:00

Office hours: General results and Next Gen Hardware

 

 

 

 

19:30

Office hours: benchmarking

Office Hours: General

 

 

 

20:00