PhD & Postdoc positions available from June 1! 👇

❗Job Alert❗Open positions in the Petrovici lab @unibe.ch
to develop an accelerator for the simulation of cortical models of processing and learning!
PhD offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
Postdoc offer: physiologie.unibe.ch/Positions/NS...
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Looking forward to seeing you all in Montreal this week 🧠🧠🧠
Use #cosyne2025 so we can 👀 what you're up to!!

Teams @neurotma.bsky.social and @compneurosenn.bsky.social were well represented at the lastest Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) Conference!
#neuromorphic #AI #ML
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Next March we will be in Heidelberg Germany --- Europe for the first time! --- and we are looking forward to reaching our broader community

The submission deadline is in about ten days. So if you have a paper on computing and neurons (#NeuroAI) looking for a home, please consider submitting!

Looking for an exciting fellowship in neuroAI, with competitive salary (~£100k)?

Our group is hiring for a project on AI for Systems-Behavioral Neuroscience, more info here: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...

General info: encode.pillar.vc 🧪

#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

The EBRAINS Tutorials and Users Day and Developers Day took place on March 12 and 13, at the European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing, in Heidelberg, Germany.

The events brought together more than 100 attendees from over 15 countries.

Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

-> related press release from @unibern.bsky.social
"AI with consciousness - but pain-free?"
mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...
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-> related publication: "The conductor model of consciousness, our neuromorphic twins, and the human-AI deal."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New interview of Federico Benitez and Walter Senn in the Berner Zeitung (in German) about their model for consciousness emergence in AI systems, governed by a "Human-AI Deal"!

www.derbund.ch/universitaet...
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New contribution in ScienceNews with an interview of Mihai A. Petrovici!
"More brainlike computers could change AI for the better"
By: Kathryn Hulick
www.sciencenews.org/article/brai...
#neuromorphic #AI #ML
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@unibern.bsky.social

This #BrainAwarenessWeek, we’re highlighting the various projects EBRAINS is involved in!

The EBRAINS 2.0 project will further the development and provision of the EBRAINS research technologies to the scientific community.

Learn more: www.ebrains.eu/projects/ebr...

Exciting news: the MINT project "NSF-SNSF: Scalable accelerated learning in continuous neuronal systems" was awarded $1,178,194 🥳🎉
Very happy to share this funding with our US collaborator Prof. Rajit Manohar from Yale University!!
@snsf-ch.bsky.social
@unibern.bsky.social
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Our paper introducing the Lu.i is out in "Trends in Neuroscience and Education" 🥳
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
thanks to our continuing and fruitful collaboration with the Electronic Vision(s) team in Heidelberg.
Check out the manuscript and the public repository
github.com/giant-axon/l...

Check out the Neurobench preprint on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2304.04640

And the project website: neurobench.ai

#Benchmarking is crucial for #Neuromorphic #processors to reach mainstream commercial acceptance. Most NM benchmarks are one-off, and don't compare results against commodity hardware. The Neurobench project is trying to fix that!

DelGrad: Exact event-based gradients in spiking networks for training delays and weights
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19165

Amused to see our open source palm-sized analogue neuromorphic hardware Lu.i being used to explain new applications of #neuromorphic engineering!
group.mercedes-benz.com/innovations/...

Neuromatch is looking for a curriculum specialist for our #neuroAI course. Spread the word!

acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...