TITLE: NEAL: Neuromorphic Embodied Agents that Learn
SPEAKER: Chris Huyck (Middlesex University)

ABSTRACT:

Ian Mitchell and I are writing a grant with the above title for some funds from the Human Brain Project.  The talk will be about that
proposal, and the talk can be found on http://www.cwa.mdx.ac.uk/chris/talks/mdx1013hbp/intro.html
A draft of the proposal is off that page, and the talk provides some links to other resources.

The talk will briefly describe the Human Brain Project.  It will then move onto our own proposal. It will use of neuromorphic chips, specialised hardware for simulating neurons.  The idea is to put our existing  agent, CABot3, onto those chips.  Then we will make use of the neuromorphic hardware to expand the agents learning capabilities.  

We are interested in comments and thoughts on the proposal.  We're interested in proposal writing comments, but also a discussion of the underlying  simulations, attractor dynamics, and, more broadly, neuronal agents.