Rockwood Memorial Lecture
Past Lectures
- 2022 Lecturer:
Jonathan R. Wolpaw, M.D.
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
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- 2016 Lecturer: Dr. Krishna Shenoy
Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Trials
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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)"
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2008 Lecturer: Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Palm, Inc. Handspring, and Numenta,
"Computing Beyond Turing: How neocortical theory is shaping the future of computing"
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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?"
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2006 Lecturer:Harvey Karten, Department of Neurosciences, UCSD
"Unwiring the Brain: Neuromorphic Engineering of Motion Detection"
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2005 Lecturer: Jeffrey L. Elman, UC San Diego,
"Generalizing beyond our experience: Lessons from neural networks"
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2004 Lecturer: Richard Gregory, University of Bristol,
"A Periodic Table for Perception"
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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"
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2001 Lecturer: Michael Dickinson, UC Berkeley,
"How Fruit Flies flap for Flight Forces: Neuro-Mechanics of a Complex Behavior"
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2000 Lecturer: Christoph von der Malsburg, Bochum University and University of Southern California,
"The Learning Problem"
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1999 Lecturer: Dana Ballard, University of Rochester,
"Single-Spike Models of Predictive Coding"
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1998 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,
"Finding Structure in Ensembles of Images"
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1997 Lecturer: Michael Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
"Graphic Models, Neural Networks, and Variational Methods"
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1996 Lecturer: Jack Cowan, University of Chicago,
"Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Migraine Auras, and Visual Illusions: What They Tell Us About Visual Cortex Circuitry"
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1995 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto,
"Neural Networks that Learn by Generating Fantasies"
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1994 Lecturer: Stephen Grossberg, Boston University,
"Neural Networks for Learning, Recognition, and Recall"
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1993 Lecturer: James L. McClelland, Carnegie-Mellon University,
"The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Development: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective"