Workshop preparations complete
Here we are, only 3 weeks until the workshop starts. The organizers have had more than a dozen transcontinental telcos (try to organize a telco involving Australia, North America and Europe sometime) and have spent many hours poring over topic area applications, participant applications, inviting guest participants, making a new web site and mailing lists, raising money, organizing housing and logistics - the list goes on and on.
This year the workshop had over 90 applications and only 30 spots, so the choice of participants was very constrained.
This was also the most successful year on record for fund-raising. The NSF still provides the bulk of the funding (80% of which goes to pay for increasingly expensive Telluride housing), but this year we were fortunate to also receive support from the Kavli Foundation and Oticon Foundation. And this year we had the largest industry sponsorship: Intel, Mitre Corporation Google, and Prophesee together contributed nearly $100,000 to fund the workshop.
This year is also special for the July 4th Town Parade. It will take place just 3 days after the start of the workshop. The preparations are already underway and the plan (thanks to Inivation invited guest and ESP18 invitee Greg Burman) is that we will be the NEUROMORPHIIC ZOMBIES. We are going for a first place prize, to add to our collection of awards. Organizer Scott Koziol (Baylor Univ) is leading preparation for the parade.
This year the workshop had over 90 applications and only 30 spots, so the choice of participants was very constrained.
This was also the most successful year on record for fund-raising. The NSF still provides the bulk of the funding (80% of which goes to pay for increasingly expensive Telluride housing), but this year we were fortunate to also receive support from the Kavli Foundation and Oticon Foundation. And this year we had the largest industry sponsorship: Intel, Mitre Corporation Google, and Prophesee together contributed nearly $100,000 to fund the workshop.
This year is also special for the July 4th Town Parade. It will take place just 3 days after the start of the workshop. The preparations are already underway and the plan (thanks to Inivation invited guest and ESP18 invitee Greg Burman) is that we will be the NEUROMORPHIIC ZOMBIES. We are going for a first place prize, to add to our collection of awards. Organizer Scott Koziol (Baylor Univ) is leading preparation for the parade.
Collection of parade awards kept at INI, alongside photo of Mark Tilden (formerly of WowWee robotics), building prototype of RoboSapiens I at Telluride, ca. 2007.
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