Interested journalists and bloggers are invited to join a press-event held on 5 May 2017 (starting at 14:00 CEST) on the occasion of the groundbreaking ceremony for the new European Institute for Neuromorphic computing (EINC) buidling at Heidelberg University (Germany). The building will become the new home of the Electronic Vision(s) group, which is running the BrainScaleS platform in HBP.

After an introduction of around 15 min on the research topic of Neuromorphic Computing by the Subproject leader Karlheinz Meier, journalists will have to opportunity to ask questions.

The press conference can be attended online via a WebBrowser with Adobe Flash.

To participate, please connect to: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/neuromorphic-computing

Questions regarding neuromorphic computing can be asked via the Q&A text chat window and will be answered by the attending researchers.

Related press releases:

• Neuromorphic Computing: Six Million Euros for a New Research Facility (press release by Heidelberg University, 21 April 2017)
• Spatenstich für das European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing (German language press release by Heidelberg University, 21 April 2017)
• Neuromorphes Rechnen: Sechs Millionen Euro für ein neues Forschungsgebäude (German language press release by Heidelberg University, 21 April 2017)

Program of the groundbreaking ceremony (.pdf, German language)