Prof. Giacomo Indiveri is part of the EU BeFerroSynaptic project. Read more about the project in this article.

20 September 2018, UZH central, RAA-G01, Ramistrasse 59.

Organised by the Institute of Neuroinformatics, AUTOMATA 2016 will be hosted at the University of Zurich, June 15-17, 2016. The AUTOMATA conference series is concerned with research on all fundamental aspects of cellular automata and related discrete complex systems.

Introduction to programming and robotics for girls (age 12-14).

Members of the Institute of Neuroinformatics organize, since 2007, a yearly workshop in Sardinia, Italy on Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering. The goals of this workshop are to promote research and education in neuroscience, neuromorphic engineering, cognitive sciences, machine learning and robotics; to discuss about the open problems in these fields; and to attempt to find routes to their resolution.

IBM's TrueNorth announcement of the largest spiking neural network IC signals a major advance in the developing field of physical neural computation. INI has been involved with IBM’s team as a subcontractor...

The International Symposium on Circuit and Systems (ISCAS) is the flagship annual conference of IEEE CASS, with typically well over 1000 participants from all areas of the world and experts in multiple disciplines and domains.

A figure of a paper by R. Bauer and al. (2014) has been selected as cover for the July 2014 issue of Cerebral Cortex.

The 2014 Capo Caccia workshop organized by INI with about 130 participants was a big success.

One of the competitive SNF professorships 2014 has been awarded to Dr. J.P. Pfister, he will join INI in the near future.

The Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop has been co-organized by members of the institute for 20 years. This year sees the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the workshop. The goals of this workshop come from its roots in neuromorphic engineering and neuroscience; and now extend towards neuromorphic cognition.

Prof. R. Stoop organizes the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA2014).

Prof. K. Martin contributed to the IPSEN conference on brain connectomics that was held in Paris on May 5th, 2014.

A group of 35 mathematics and computer science students from Leiden University (The Netherlands) visited INI on May 5, 2014.

The MIT Technology Review has published a review of breakthrough modern technologies. Three apporaches prominently featured at INI are described, illustrating the role of INI at the forefront of modern research in neuroscience and neurotechnologies.

Prof. Rodney Douglas has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Cape town, of which he is an alumnus.

Since January 2014, INI is collaborating with the Life Science Zurich Learning Zurich to allow school students to gain insight into a research institute. Several dozens students ranging from age 10 to 19 have already visited the institute and many more visits are already planned for the coming months.

Ueli Rutishauser, an INI alumnus, has received one of the Troland awards in 2014.

Congratulations to INI Prof. Tobi Delbrück who has been elevated to IEEE Fellow. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Being elevated to Fellow is IEEE's highest honor. It has been awarded to Prof. Delbrück for his contributions to neuromorphic visual sensors and processing.