Three Waterloo academics are named among Canada’s Top Natural Sciences and Engineering Researchers for 2015 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) today.
Chris Eliasmith has just been named an inaugural member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars.
Summer camp: it's not just for school-aged kids. A group of researchers, psychologists and computer scientists from around the world flocked to the University of Waterloo to attend a summer camp where they learned how to build brains.
Chris Eliasmith, director of the university's Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience, affectionately calls it "brain camp."
Tomorrow, participants in a University of Waterloo-hosted workshop will be demonstrating large-scale brain models they have built over the last two weeks, running on laptops, robots, and specialized brain-like computers as they simulate neural functions.
Tesla Motors CEO (chief executive officer), Elon Musk, warns about artificial intelligence.
Four of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (CTN) faculty have received a 2014 Outstanding Performance Award: Chris Eliasmith, Sue Ann Campbell, Brian Ingalls, and Paul Thagard.
A memo from Vice-President, Academic & Provost Geoff McBoyle provides the context for the announcement:
Vijay Chandru, (Strand Biosciences), Terrence Stewart (Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience), and Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology) podcast on Virtualizing our Bodies: The Virtual Self.
The University of Waterloo Cognitive Science Program presents
Waterloo Intelligence Day: Intelligence in Machines, Humans, and Other Animals
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
PAS (Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology building)
Room 2083
Speakers
Machines: Shai Ben-David, Computer Science | Hamid Tizhoosh, Systems Design Engineering
For many of us, that's just an expression. But for Canada's most outstanding researchers, it's a calling. IDEAS host Paul Kennedy in conversation with prize-winning thinkers about why they're driven to investigate some of the world's most pressing problems. Recorded at Rideau Hall, the 2013 Killam Prize Symposium celebrates the achievements of some of the Canada Council's Killam Prize winners.