Dr. Clyde Clarke has successfully completed and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, April 29, 2008

Dr. Francesco Tenore has successfully completed and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, February 1, 2008

The Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop will take place from June 29th - July 19th, 2008.

IEEE BioCAS 2008 Intelligent Biomedical Systems is in Baltimore, November 18th - 21th, 2008.

INE NEWS - An online newsletter for the Neuromorphic Engineering community is launched. It is the official news site for the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering

Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings is selected as a National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, November 8 - 11th, 2007.

EETimes online: Analog chip could be Rx for spinal cord injury features work done by R. Jacob Vogelstein and Francesco Tenore, September 17, 2007.

Dr. Jacob Vogelstein has successfully completed and defended his Ph.D. dissertation, May 22, 2007

Recent Publications

• N Ekekwe, R Etienne-Cummings, “Adaptive Hysteretic Comparator with Opamp Threshold Level Setting,” accepted to 2008 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Knoxville, USA ,August 10-13, 2008.
• F. Folowosele, F. Tenore, A. Russell, G. Orchard, M. Vismer, J. Tapson, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Implementing a Neuromorphic Cross-Correlation Engine with Silicon Neurons,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• G. Orchard, A. Russell, K. Mazurek, F. Tenore, R. Etienne-Cummings, “Configuring Silicon Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• J. Tapson, M.P. Vismer, C. Jin, A van Schaik, F. Folowosele, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “A Two-Neuron Cross-Correlation Circuit with a Wide and Continuous Range of Time Delay,” accepted to IEEE ISCAS 2008, Seattle, Washington, May 2008.
• N. Ekekwe, P. Kazanzides and R. Etienne-Cummings, “A Wide Speed Range and High Precision Position and Velocity Measurements Chip with Serial Peripheral Interface,” Elsevier Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 297-305, Feb. 2008.
• R. Philip, V. Gruev, D. Orr, J. Van der Spiegel and R. Etienne-Cummings, “ A Linear and Low-Noise Current Domain Imager,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 11, Nov. 2007.
• M. Chi, U. Mallik, E. Choi, M. Clapp, G. Cauwenberghs and R. Etienne-Cummings, “CMOS Pixel-Level ADC with Change Detection,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 2187-2196, Oct. 2007.
• J. Volgelstein, U. Mallik, G. Cauwenberghs and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Real-Time Image Processing using a Spiking Imager and an Integrate-and-Fire Array Transceiver System,” Neural Computation, Vol. 19, pp. 2281-2300, 2007.