Altjira currently works with the following:
Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France (Contact: Olivier Coenen)
University of Granada, Granada, Spain (Contact: Eduardo Ros)
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (Contact: Boris Barbour)
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Pavia, Italy (Contact: Egidio d'Angelo)
The Salk Institute of Biological Studies, San Diego, USA (Contact: Mike Arnold)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA (Contact: Chris Assad)
University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany (Contact: Fred Hamker)
Core elements of Altjira's software products have been in development for the past 8 years and have been used in the following projects:
The development with Olivier Coenen and the EU funded SpikeFORCE consortium of biologically plausible conductance-based spiking models of the olivary-cerebellar system within the brain, and their application to supervised learning tasks such as visual tracking. The models are implemented on distributed memory platforms with neural hardware co-processors.
The development of biological models of covert visual attention by Fred Hamker and Mike Arnold in the NASA funded project NCC 2-1253.
The development of a closed visuomotor loop using mechanical arms driven by biologically inspired air muscles by Chris Assad, Fred Hamker and Mike Arnold.
Forecasting short-term electricity load for Integral Energy to help reduce their exposure to the spot market. Technical challenges were in the handling large amounts of dirty and unreliable data from multiple sources, to automatically generate daily predictions.
Design of energy management systems and analysis of the deregulation of the energy market for Chubb Building Automation who produce building management systems. The challenge was to identify what level of modelling and data collection could be justified by the potential energy savings.
Data handling software for the Environmental Protection Authority for modelling air quality in the Sydney, Australia urban basin. The challenge was to reduce the highly labour intensive cost of preparing data from many different sources for many different models.
