CNSE 10th Anniversary Symposium
TOWARDS INTELLIGENT MACHINES

November 8-9, 2004

Ramo Auditorium
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Map (pdf)

 

 

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Program

Topics: Brain-Machine Interfaces; Neuroinformatics; Machine Vision; Robotics; Optical Computing; Learning Theory; Awareness; Smart Sensors; and Biomimetic Systems

Monday November 8, 2004
Morning Session
8:30 - 8:35 Conference Opening and Introduction
Pietro Perona, CNSE Director
8:35 - 8:45 Welcome to Caltech
David Baltimore, Caltech President
8:45 - 9:15 CNSE 1994-2004: Accomplishments & Legacy (pdf)
Pietro Perona, CNSE Director
 

Neuroinformatics
9:15 - 10:00
Rodney Douglas, ETH Zurich
Neocortical architectures for neuromorphic computation: progress, problems, and prospects (pdf)
10:00 - 10:20
Laurent Itti, USC
A Surprising Theory of Attention (pdf)
10:20 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:00
Gabriel Kreiman, MIT
Decoding Visual Information From Spikes and Local Field Potentials in the Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex (pdf)
11:00 -11:20
Charles Higgins, University of Arizona
Non-directional Motion Sensors for Insect-inspired Visual Navigation (pdf)
11:20-11:40
Sam Roweis, U. Toronto
Automatic Visualization and Classification of High Dimensional Datasets (pdf)
  Industrial Panel
11:40 - 12:30
Alex Morrow, IBM Research

Vance Bjorn, Digital Persona

Dwight Streit, Northrop-Grumman

Alec Hudnut, Evolution Robotics

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and poster session, Beckman Institute Courtyard
Afternoon Session
  Hardware
2:00 - 2:20
Reid Harrison, U. Utah
Visual Collision Detection - From Flies to Chips (pdf)
Robot Video (wmv)
2:20 - 2:40
Tim Horiuchi, U. Maryland
Blind as a Neuromorphic VLSI Bat Robot (pdf)
2:40 - 3:00
Qiao Lin, CMU
Microfluidic Modeling and Experimentation for Biomolecular Analysis and Characterization (pdf)
3:00 - 3:20
Ellis Meng, USC
From Neuromorphic to Biomimetic MEMS (ppt)
3:20 - 3:40
Zhiwen Liu, Penn. State U.
Spatially Coherent Temporally Incoherent Optical Information Systems (pdf)
3:40 - 4:00
Paul Hasler, GaTech
Neuromorphic Engineering through Programmable and Adaptive Analog Technologies (pdf)
4:00 - 4:15 Break
  Machine Vision & Learning
4:15 - 4:35
Howie Choset, CMU
Robots that Climb, Cover, and SLAM (pdf)
4:35 - 4:55
Stefano Soatto, UCLA
Dynamic Vision (pdf)
4:55 - 5:15
Max Welling, UC Irvine
Graphical Models: The New Paradigm for Probabilistic Modelling (pdf)
5:15 - 5:35
Serge Belongie, UCSD
Monitoring Animal Behavior in the Smart Vivarium (pdf)
6:00 - 7:00 IAB Meeting (Athenaeum, Mezzanine)
7:00 - 10:00

Formal Banquet - Athenaeum

After Dinner Speaker
Richard Murray, Caltech
DARPA Grand Challenge - Barstow to Vegas
 
Tuesday November 9, 2004
Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Joel Burdick, CNSE Deputy Director
Center for Intelligent Autonomous Machines (pdf)
9:00 - 9:45 Rahul Sarpeshkar, MIT
Bioelectronics (pdf)
9:45 - 10:05 Maneesh Sahani, U. College, London
A Biologically Plausible Approach to Reinforcement-Driven Representational Learning (pdf)
10:05 - 10:25 Malik Magdon-Ismail, RPI
Learning in Distributed Systems: A Game Theoretic View (pdf)
10:25 - 10:45 Amir Atiya, Cairo University
Learning in Input Space (pdf)
10:45 - 11:00 Break
  Autonomy & Control; Neuroprosthetics
11:00 - 11:20
Hossein Hashemi, USC
Phased Arrays on Silicon (pdf)
11:20 - 11:40
Krishna Shenoy, Stanford
High-Performance Neural Prosthetic Systems (pdf)
11:40 - 12:00
Malcolm MacIver, Northwestern U.
Matching of Sensing and Motor Volumes and Optimality of Movements in Active Sensing Systems (pdf)
12:00 - 12:20
George Barbastathis, MIT
3D Optics And 3D Nanomanufacturing (pdf)
12:20 - 12:40
Kristi Morgansen, U. Washington
Geometric Methods for Design and Control of Fin-actuated Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (pdf)
12:40 - 1:30 Lunch in Beckman Institute Courtyard  
1:30 - 1:50 Richard Murray, Caltech
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems (pdf)
1:50 - 2:30
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins
Developing a Community for Neuromorphic Engineers: From The Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop to the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (pdf)
  Center for Intelligent Autonomous Machines
2:30 - 2:50
Christof Koch, Caltech
Brains and Machine: A Common Vision (pdf)
2:50 - 3:10
Pietro Perona, Caltech
Perceptual Categorization in Autonomous Machines (pdf)
3:10 - 3:30

Richard Andersen, Caltech
Cognitive Neural Prosthetics (pdf)

3:30 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:10
Joel Burdick, Caltech
Autonomous Recording Electrodes (pdf)
4:10 - 4:30
Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech
Learning Systems: From add-on's to throw-out's (pdf)
4:30 - 4:50
Michael Dickinson, Caltech
Automating Behavior for Behaving Automatons (pdf)
4:50 - 5:10
Yu-Chong Tai, Caltech
Integrated Micro Systems (pdf)
5:10 - 5:20
Pietro Perona, Caltech
A Vision for Vision
Adjourn
5:20 - 6:30

Wine & Cheese Reception

 
 
Contact

For questions regarding this conference and future events please contact:

Mary King Sikora
Tel: 626 395-2246
Fax: 626-795-4765

Dr. Siddharth Dasgupta
Associate Director, CNSE
Tel: 626-395-2809
Fax: 626-795-4765

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