Speaker: Brian Neff, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo
Speaker: Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology at Skidmore College
Speaker: Chris Eliasmith
Recent high-profile brain simulations, including those of the one billion euro Human Brain Project, are very large and, by some measures, complex. However, they do not exhibit interesting behaviours and so are difficult to compare to much of what we know about the brain.
Recent years have seen accelerating development of crowd-sourced and remotely sensed “big” data from real-world systems such as urban land markets, global financial networks, epidemic diseases, and the Earth’s climate. Concurrently, development of computer simulations designed to model the systems producing these data has also accelerated. As a result of both trends, researchers and policymakers have access to steadily more data that could provide information on the behavior and causal structure of complex systems.
Human creativity operates in many domains, including scientific discovery, technological invention, artistic imagination, and social innovation. Creativity requires cognitive processes such as combining ideas, generating hypotheses, and using analogies. It also requires social processes such as exchanging ideas and transferring emotional evaluations.
Speaker: Mireille E. Broucke
You’re invited to a seminar with Sérgio Pequito on Monday, April 28, 2014! The seminar will be held in EIT-3142 from 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
The title of the lecture is A Framework for Structural Input/Output and Control Configuration Selection of Large-Scale Systems – the abstract and speaker biography are below. Hope to see you there!
Speaker: Marcin Jakubowski, PhD
A video of the presentation can be found below.
Speaker: Scott Heckbert, PhD
A video of the talk can be found at the bottom of the page.
The Cheriton School of Computer Science is hosting a distinguished lecture by Professor Deborah Estrin on June 23 at 3 p.m. Full details are available below or on the Cheriton School’s website.
Speaker: Deborah Estrin, Cornell NYC Tech