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      <p>Dear all,</p>
      <p>The call for the Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop topic area
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          style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Telluride, Colorado, June 28 –July 17, 2020</span></p>
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        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:
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            href="https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2020/home"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. For over two decades, the Workshop has been influential in shaping the field of neuromorphic engineering and connecting multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, machine learning, robotics, control, computer vision and audition.</span></p>
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        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:
          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">For the 2020 workshop, we seek proposals that touch on </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">learning and intelligence</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> and with an emphasis on closing the loop between perception, cognition, learning, and the motor system. Projects should involve neuromorphic and bio-inspired concepts or connect from these areas to other mainstream areas such as deep learning. We support topic areas that touch on the following domains:</span></p>
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          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Neural architectures for cognitive computing</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Applications of neuromorphic technology (sensor and computing platforms) on "real-world"   tasks in areas such as computer vision, audition, and robot control.</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Mathematical models and algorithms for event processing including deep learning and signal processing algorithms</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Higher-level cognition, language, and reasoning</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Robotics for navigation and manipulation including control</span></p></li>
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        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:
          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Topic area proposals should include a list of projects and also target an "everyday" task that biological brains solve with ease. Projects should focus on those which pose significant challenges to current artificial computing systems. They should also have a tutorial component for the workshop participants. Topic areas should aim for impressive demonstrators as the outcome of three weeks of focused work. </span></p>
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        <p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:
          justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Successful proposals in the past have focused on topics such as navigating through an unknown environment, visual and auditory understanding of scenes and human actions in real-time environments, adaptively manipulating objects in the service of a household task, neural network architectures for cognitive computing and their efficient hardware implementation, EEG-based systems to decode acoustic events, neuroprosthetic control, deep learning systems and transfer learning, etc.  See</span><a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/telluride2019/2019-topic-areas"
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          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Title of topic area.</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Names of the two topic leaders, their affiliations, and contact information (email addresses). Please note that there can only be TWO topic leaders. Other co-organizers or supporting staff can be named as invitees.</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A paragraph explaining the focus and goals of the topic area and its relation to the goals of expanding the neuromorphic community.</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A list of possible specific topic area projects.</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A clear plan to prepare students for the project, including a syllabus of lectures and hands-on tutorials at the workshop with preparatory material (websites, software, video lectures, etc).</span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A list of (neuromorphic or otherwise) sensors, hardware platforms, software packages, robots, or any other special equipment that are a part of your topic area project. </span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">A list of planned invitees that you have contacted (up to six names and institutions). </span></p></li>
          <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Any other material that fits within the three-page limit that will help us make a smart choice.</span></p></li>
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          style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Send your topic area proposal</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> in pdf or text format to </span><a
            href="mailto:neuromorph-org20@googlegroups.com"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">neuromorph-org20@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ee;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">with subject line containing "</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">topic area proposal</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">"</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. If you do not get a response confirming receipt of your proposal, please contact one of the workshop organizers directly.</span></p>
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          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proposals must be received by the deadline (see start of this document)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">; proposals received after the deadline may still be considered if space is available.</span></p>
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          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We expect to accept 4 topic areas.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> We hope to have significant turn-over each year in the topic areas and leaders to ensure fresh new ideas and participants.</span></p>
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          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The workshop is organized by the </span><a
            href="https://neuromorphs.github.io"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p>
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            href="https://tellurideneuromorphic.org"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://tellurideneuromorphic.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> for the 2020 workshop web page.</span></p>
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          justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The 2020 Workshop Organizing Team:</span></p>
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            href="https://www.ini.uzh.ch/~shih/"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Shih-Chii Liu</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)</span></p>
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            href="http://www.nmi-lab.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Emre Neftci</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (University of California, Irvine)</span></p>
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            href="http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~fer/"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Cornelia Fermüller</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (University of Maryland)</span></p>
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            href="http://www.aiguy.net" style="text-decoration:none;"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Guido Zarrella</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (MITRE)</span></p>
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            href="http://terrystewart.ca" style="text-decoration:none;"
            moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Terry Stewart</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (National Research Council of Canada)</span></p>
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            href="https://engineering.jhu.edu/ece/faculty/andreou-andreas/"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Andreas Andreou</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (John Hopkins University)</span></p>
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            href="http://sensors.ini.uzh.ch/tobi.html"
            style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#0000ff;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tobi Delbruck</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich)</span></p>
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