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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : Neuromorphic Computing - Are we ready for a bi
 g step ?
DTSTART:20110530T161500
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Karlheinz Meier\, Universität Heidelberg - invited by P
 rof. Wulfram Gerstner\nAbstract : The brain is fundamentally different fro
 m numerical information processing devices. On the system level it feature
 s very low power consumption\, fault tolerance and the ability to learn. O
 n the microscopic level it is composed of constituents with a high degree 
 of diversity forming a rather uniform fabric with universal computing capa
 bilities. Neuromorphic architectures attempt to build physical models of s
 uch neural circuits with the aim to capture the key features and exploit t
 hem for information processing. In the talk I will review recent work and 
 discuss future developments. Bio : Karlheinz Meier (*1955) received his Ph
 D in Physics from Hamburg University in 1984. He worked as a research fell
 ow and as a member of scientific staff at the CERN laboratory in Geneva fr
 om 1984 to 1990 before joining the DESY laboratory in Hamburg as a staff m
 ember from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he took over a chair for experimental phy
 sics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität\, Heidelberg. He co-founded the Ki
 rchhoff-Institut für Physik and the Heidelberg ASIC Laboratory for Microe
 lectronics. Karlheinz Meier worked as an experimental particle physicist o
 n 4 major international accelerator projects. His research focused on phys
 ics instrumentation with special emphasis on data processing. During the l
 ast 10 years his research interests shifted to neuromorphic hardware syste
 ms. He was a member of the SenseMaker consortium and initiated and coordin
 ated the FET integrated projects FACETS and Brain-Scales. He also coordina
 tes the Maria-Curie graduate student network FACETS-ITN. 
LOCATION:INM 202
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