IC Monday Seminar : Neuromorphic Computing - Are we ready for a big step ?
Event details
| Date | 30.05.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Karlheinz Meier, Universität Heidelberg - invited by Prof. Wulfram Gerstner |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract : The brain is fundamentally different from numerical information processing devices. On the system level it features very low power consumption, fault tolerance and the ability to learn. On the microscopic level it is composed of constituents with a high degree of diversity forming a rather uniform fabric with universal computing capabilities. Neuromorphic architectures attempt to build physical models of such neural circuits with the aim to capture the key features and exploit them for information processing. In the talk I will review recent work and discuss future developments. Bio : Karlheinz Meier (*1955) received his PhD in Physics from Hamburg University in 1984. He worked as a research fellow and as a member of scientific staff at the CERN laboratory in Geneva from 1984 to 1990 before joining the DESY laboratory in Hamburg as a staff member from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he took over a chair for experimental physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg. He co-founded the Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik and the Heidelberg ASIC Laboratory for Microelectronics. Karlheinz Meier worked as an experimental particle physicist on 4 major international accelerator projects. His research focused on physics instrumentation with special emphasis on data processing. During the last 10 years his research interests shifted to neuromorphic hardware systems. He was a member of the SenseMaker consortium and initiated and coordinated the FET integrated projects FACETS and Brain-Scales. He also coordinates the Maria-Curie graduate student network FACETS-ITN.
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- General public
- Free
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- Christine Moscioni