Founding member of CTN, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, and 2013 Killam prize winner Paul Thagard has a new book out: Bots and Beasts: What makes Machines, Animals and People smart.
To an unanticipated conflict our first colloquium speaker of the term needs to reschedule. Mayank Mehta of UCLA will now present on March 8.
CS 479 “Neural Networks” (cross listed as CS 679) is a new course to be offered for the first time Winter 2022. The course is developed by Jeff Orchard (CTN Core member). It was developed over 4 offerings of CS 489 (“Advanced topics in CS”), and should be of interest to undergraduates and graduates with interests in theoretical neuroscience. For details and pre-requisites please consult cs479.
Abstract:
Cortical Interactions in the Oculomotor System
A New Network Architecture for Supervised Learning in the Cerebellum
Javier F Medina, Baylor College of Medicine
Joel Zylberberg
York University
(Learning) Visual Representations