The 2018 Neuro-Inspired Computing Elements (NICE) Workshop is the 6th annual meeting of researchers in the neural computing field.  Like previous workshops, NICE 2018 will focus on the interplay between neural theory, neural algorithms, neuromorphic architectures and hardware, and applications for neural computing technology.  NICE aims to involve diverse participation from all over the world and bring together research communities with universities, government, and industry.

Submission Guidelines

As a workshop, we encourage submissions describing work that is not yet published.  Preference will be given towards submissions describing ambitious approaches to bringing neural inspiration into real world computing applications.  

For submissions, we ask for extended two page abstracts (not including references) that will be reviewed by the program committee.  Papers should emphasize the novel aspects of the work and the potential impact on the neural computing community.  

From this we will invite a number of short talks, lightning talks, and poster presentations. The preferred mode of presentation should be noted on the submission site.  

List of Topics

During submission, please indicate which of the following topics your paper impacts:

• Architectures and hardware
• Computational and theoretical neuroscience
• Neural algorithms and machine learning
• Neural computing applications

Committees

Organizing Committee

Program Committee

• Gert Cauwenberghs (University of California, San Diego)
• Dhireesha Kudithipudi (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• Ahmet Ozcan (IBM)
• Fred Rothganger (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Katie Schuman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
• Brian Van Essen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Craig Vineyard (Sandia National Laboratories)

Invited Speakers

• Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
• Wolfgang Maass, TU-Graz
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Venue

NICE 2018 will be held at Intel's campus in Hillsboro, OR on February 27,2018 - March 1, 2018

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Brad Aimone (jbaimon@sandia.gov)

Sponsors

Special Thanks to NICE 2018's sponsors, including:

• Intel Corporation
• NICE Workshop Foundation