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Celebrated research includes ground-breaking chemical theories, computers that think like humans, and new production of medical isotopes

In an official ceremony on February 17, 2015 at Rideau Hall, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada,  presented a series of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) awards recognizing the work of outstanding Canadian scientists and engineers. He was joined by the Honourable Ed Holder, Minister of State (Science and Technology), and Dr. B.

Chris Eliasmith, who has built a computer model of the human brain, is given prestigious John C. Polanyi Award

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.

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.

Video:  CBC The National | June 19, 2014

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