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CEDA Currents

The following is reprinted from CEDA
Currents, May 2016 issue, a publication of the IEEE Council on Electronic
Design Automation (CEDA). Please
send contributions to Jose L. Ayala
(jayala@fdi.ucm.es).

IEEE Brain Initiative
As massive global efforts across government, academia, and industry deepen
their focus on developing neurotechnology, and as these technologies become
mature enough to be considered for
commercialization and standardization,
IEEE's new Brain Initiative has arrived
at a crucial time to complement a vast
number of endeavors. Stemming from
the IEEE Future Directions Committee,
the initiative will facilitate interaction
within the IEEE and beyond, enhancing
the rapidly expanding dialogue centered
around neurotechnology.
Paul Sajda (Columbia University) is
the chair of the Future Directions Committee for the IEEE Brain Initiative. An
IEEE Fellow, Sajda has served as editorin-chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural
Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and he has experience in industry,
startups, and academia. His research
interests include multimodal neuroimaging of human decision-making,
brain machine interfaces, and computational psychiatry.
The mission of the IEEE Brain Initiative is to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration and coordination to advance
research, standardization, and development of technologies in neuroscience
so as to help improve the human condition. "The hope is that people with ideas,
ways in which they think that they might
synergize between either other societies or councils or outside the IEEE, will

get involved in this," Sajda explains,
"because it is truly a multidisciplinary
venture where we're not just spanning
within IEEE, but we're looking at life sciences, brain, things like that. It's a challenge, but it's super exciting because of
the possibility of the interfaces."
The first IEEE Brain Initiative Workshop was held at Columbia University
on 14 December 2015. The workshop
was intended to kick off a discussion
on the definition, scope, and potential
structure of the IEEE Brain effort. Steve
Diamond, vice chair of the IEEE Future
Directions Committee, gave the opening
remarks and explained to the attendees
the importance of IEEE's role in nurturing the development of technologies
and brain research. Chair Paul Sajda and
Vice Chair Jose Carmena facilitated the
discussion throughout the day.
The workshop consisted of a blend
of keynote presentations from Rafael
Yuste (Columbia University) and Jan Rabaey (University of California, Berkeley),
stimulating technical exchanges, and
informative presentations from 11 IEEE
organizational units discussing their

Upcoming conferences
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efforts on brain research. The workshop
ended with a lively brain-storming session in which attendees identified topic
areas that should be addressed, communities and constituencies that should
be engaged, and ways to collaborate
within and outside of IEEE.
For more information, please go
to the IEEE Brain Initiative website at
http://brain.ieee.org.

Embedded Systems Week 2016
Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek)will
be held on 2-7 October 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ESWeek presents
a wide range of topics unveiling the
state of the art in embedded systems
design and hardware-software architectures. ESWeek brings together three
leading conferences:
■ CASES (International Conference on
Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems)
■ CODES+ISSS (International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis)
■ EMSOFT (International Conference
on Embedded Software).
This year, ESWeek also includes
a special Internet of Things (IoT)
Day, several symposia, and exciting
workshops and tutorials.
Registered attendees are entitled
to attend sessions of all three conferences, as well as the IoT Day. Symposia, workshops, and tutorials require
separate registration.

CASES 2016
CASES is a forum in which researchers,
developers, and practitioners exchange
information on the latest advances in
compilers and architectures for high-performance embedded systems. Core areas
of technical interest include embedded
systems architectures, compilers, and software; memory architectures; architectures

http://brain.ieee.org

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