Rockwood Memorial Lecture

Past Lectures

• 2023 Lecturer: Dr. Tobi Delbruck
  Event Camera Silicon Retina; History, Live Demo, and Whiteboard Circuit Design
  
  
• 2022 Lecturer: Dr. Jonathan R. Wolpaw
  Neuroadaptive Technologies: Past, Present & Future
  
  
• 2021 Lecturer: Dr. Yoshua Bengio
  From Conscious Processing to System 2 Deep Learning
  
  
• 2019 Lecturer: Dr. Pietro Perona
  Visipedia: People, Machines, and Data Working Together to Achieve Knowledge
  
  
• 2018 Lecturer: Dr. Don Norman
  Adventures in Representation: A Lifetime of Struggle
  
  
• 2017 Lecturer: Dr. Christof Koch
  Big Science, Team Science, Open Science: In the Service of Neuroscience
  
  
• 2016 Lecturer: Dr. Krishna Shenoy
  Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials
  
  
• 2015 Lecturer: Dr. Kwabena Boahen
  Neuromorphic Chips: Combining Analog Computation with Digital Communication
  
  
• 2014 Lecturer: Dr. Bruce McNaughton,
  Doughnuts in the Brain: A Toroidal Attractor Theory of the Cognitive Map
  
  
• 2013 Lecturer: Dr. Dmitri B. Chklovskii,
  Can connectomics help us understand neural computation? Insights from the fly visual system
  
  
• 2012 Lecturer: Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich,
  Spikes
  
  
• 2011 Lecturer: Rodney Douglas,
  Constructive Cortical Computation
  
  
• 2010 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton,
  Deep learning with multiplicative interactions
  
  
• 2009 Lecturer: Josh Bongard,
  Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution and Cognition
  Resilient Machines (Through Continuous Self-Modeling)
  
  
• 2008 Lecturer: Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Palm, Inc. Handspring, and Numenta,
  Computing Beyond Turing: How neocortical theory is shaping the future of computing
  
  
• 2007 Lecturer: Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  What Should Computer Vision Learn from Neuroscience?
  
  
• 2006 Lecturer:Harvey Karten, Department of Neurosciences, UCSD
  Unwiring the Brain: Neuromorphic Engineering of Motion Detection
  
  
• 2005 Lecturer: Jeffrey L. Elman, UC San Diego,
  Generalizing beyond our experience: Lessons from neural networks
  
  
• 2004 Lecturer: Richard Gregory, University of Bristol,
  A Periodic Table for Perception
  
  
• 2003 Lecturer: Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc.,
  A New Kind Of Science
  
  
• 2002 Lecturer: Pasko Rakic, Yale University,
  Building the Cerebral Cortex: From Stem Cells to Complex Architecture
  
  
• 2001 Lecturer: Michael Dickinson, UC Berkeley,
  How Fruit Flies flap for Flight Forces: Neuro-Mechanics of a Complex Behavior
  
  
• 2000 Lecturer: Christoph von der Malsburg, Bochum University and University of Southern California,
  The Learning Problem
  
  
• 1999 Lecturer: Dana Ballard, University of Rochester,
  Single-Spike Models of Predictive Coding
  
  
• 1998 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,
  Finding Structure in Ensembles of Images
  
  
• 1997 Lecturer: Michael Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
  Graphic Models, Neural Networks, and Variational Methods
  
  
• 1996 Lecturer: Jack Cowan, University of Chicago,
  Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Migraine Auras, and Visual Illusions: What They Tell Us About Visual Cortex Circuitry
  
  
• 1995 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,
  Neural Networks that Learn by Generating Fantasies
  
  
• 1994 Lecturer: Stephen Grossberg, Boston University,
  Neural Networks for Learning, Recognition, and Recall
  
  
• 1993 Lecturer: James L. McClelland, Carnegie-Mellon University,
  The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Development: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective