The CapoCaccia Workshop towards Neuromorphic Intelligence
Abstract
The goal of the CapoCaccia Workshops is to promote the neuromorphic approach to designing technologies, establish an international c,ommunity, and to encourage collaboration amongst small groups, in order to achieve the kind of technical advances which could only o,therwise happen in well-funded industrial labs. The building of an international collaborative community has been the cornerstone of, our progress. We have shared designs, hardware, interfaces, software, and importantly ideas freely, and it appears to everyones be,nefit. We have also been able to move a little upward from the necessary circuit-level obsessions, to more system level (behavioral), considerations. Meanwhile the large scale digitally implemented circuit approaches to neuromorphic function, such as Deep Learning,, are converging toward the same behavioral questions. All of these efforts take inspiration and relevant detail from Biology.These t,wo week-workshops have been running annually since 2007, at a venue close to cape Capo Caccia, a nature park on wild north west co,ast Sardinia, Italy. The location was chosen for its unique combination of wilderness, isolation, and beauty, to inspire researchers, to spend as much time as possible together and encourage open discussions and joint creative processes in a relaxed and intellectua,lly open environment. Indeed, the format of the workshop includes interactive expert lead discussions in the mornings, tutorials on,neuroscience, circuit design, robotics, and artificial intelligence in the afternoons, and hands-on projects and workshops on neurom,orphic cognition in the evenings and nights.Now, after a forced two-year halt, due to the COVID pandemic, we plan to restart by enco,uraging our core group of previous participants to a Capo Caccia RenewalWorkshop, that will identify and assess the advances of neur,omorphic engineering that have occurred during the COVID period, and collectively consider new directions for futureWorkshops. In co,nsidering these futures, it will be important for us to learn about progress in emerging fields with long-range relations to Neuromo,rphic Engeering such as cytomorphic engineering, bio-electronics, and self-constructing systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2022
- Source ID
- N629092212029
Entities
People
- Giacomo Indiveri
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Zurich