ELFT HÍRADÓ

[Biro Tamas <biro.tamas AT wigner.mta.hu>]

Dear Colleagues

our next Wigner Colloquium talk will be held at the KFKI campus

on September 24-th (Tuesday) at 14:00 by

Prof. Ivan Schuller (University of California San Diego) about

 Neuromorphic Computing.

More details at:
https://indico.kfki.hu/event/1055/

With best regards, teh organizers

 Tamás Biró  and Balázs Újfalussy

P.S.

Abstract:

Data acquisition (sensors) and manipulation (memory, computation, 
communications, data mining) in its many forms drives and fuels our 
civilization. Biology has evolved complex intelligent systems that can 
acquire and manipulate data in a very efficient and comprehensive 
fashion. On the other hand, scientific and technological developments 
have led to the invention of highly sophisticated data acquisition and 
manipulation machines, which have been continuously improving over the 
last 50 years. Since biological systems can, in many cases, outperform 
artificial systems a natural question arises. Can biology provide, some 
high level, guiding principles useful for the development of 
revolutionary, new concepts for the development of artificial, 
intelligent systems ?


I will describe attempts to answer the US White House 
Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Technology: “Create a 
new type of computer that can proactively interpret and learn from data, 
solve unfamiliar problems using what it has learned, and operate with 
the energy efficiency of the human brain”.


The work was supported as part of the “Quantum Materials for Energy 
Efficient Neuromorphic Computing” an Energy Frontier Research Center 
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science

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