A programmable chip can replace the ability of the cerebellum to learn a timed eye-blink response to a sound.

Applications are invited for a three-week summer workshop that will be held in Telluride, Colorado from Sunday July 1st - Saturday July 21st, 2012. This three-week intensive workshop and is intended to promote interaction between senior and junior researchers; educate new members of the community; introduce new enabling fields and applications to the community; promote on-going collaborative activities emerging from the Workshop, and promote a self-sustaining research field.

Themes will include cortical development, multi-scale neural circuit experimental and modeling approaches, state-dependent computation, brain-machine interfaces, VLSI implementations of neural processing systems, plasticity in real and silicon neural systems, memristive devices and phase-change materials, and of course cognitive behaving neuromorphic systems.

Job opening for a post-doctoral position at the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

We present a high-speed communication infrastructure for a waferscale neuromorphic system, based on application-specific neuromorphic communication ICs in an field programmable gate arrays (FPGA)-maintained environment. The overall so-called pulse communication subgroup (ICs and FPGA) delivers a factor 25–50 more event transmission rate than other current neuromorphic communication infrastructures.