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February 24 (Friday)

12:30-Registration
13:00-13:10Opening remarks
Session 1: Brainware LSI Technologies I
13:10-13:40Challenge of a Nonvolatile FPGA for a Brainware LSI Platform
Daisuke Suzuki (Tohoku University, Japan)
13:40-14:10Brain-Inspired Computing for Error-Resilient VLSI System
Masanori Natsui (Tohoku University, Japan)
14:10-14:40Threats and countermeasures for information security on a silicon chip
Byong-Deok Choi (Hanyang University, Korea)
14:40-15:00Coffee break
Session 2: Brainware LSI Technologies II
15:00-15:30Embedded Processing for High Power Electronic Modules
Wai Tung Ng (University of Toronto, Canada)
15:30-16:00Flexible spike delay controller for neural processing based on FPGA
Jordi Madrenas (Technical University of Catalunya, Spain)
16:00-16:30Introduction to Approximate Computing
Jie Han (University of Alberta, Canada)
16:30-16:50Coffee break
Session 3: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI I
16:50-17:20Vision processor based on motion-stereo vision implementing huge neural connections by successive Hough transform
Hisanao Akima (Tohoku University, Japan)
17:20-17:50Prediction of gaze shifts on movies from integration of eye-head coordination and saliency map
Yasuhiro Hatori (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
17:50-18:20Visual attention and object recognition algorithms for rapid visual scene analysis
Laurent Itti (USC Computer Science, Psychology and Neuroscience, USA)

February 25 (Saturday)

Session 4: Recognition & Learning in Brainware LSI II
09:00-09:30Stochastic Computation for Deep Neural Networks
Naoya Onizawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
09:30-10:00Auditory spatial attention improves word intelligibility in multi-talker environment
Ryo Teraoka (Tohoku University/Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan)
10:00-10:30Brain connectivity analysis of human auditory fMRI data
Stefan Uppenkamp (University of Oldenburg,Germany)
10:30-10:50Coffee break
Session 5: Brainware LSI Technologies III
10:50-11:20Towards a brainmorphic whole organism computing system
Yoshihiko Horio (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:20-11:50Gait Transition to Gallop via an Interlimb Coordination Rule Based on Tegotae from Body Support and Propulsion
Akira Fukuhara (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:50-12:20Mystery of the Computing Amoeba
Ryo Kobayashi (Hiroshima University, Japan)
12:20-12:30Closing remarks