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<div style="font-family: tt;"><span><span><span style="font-family:
monospace;">The CNRG lab is running a summer school
(described below), and I
wanted to invite everyone to come out.
Please pass the invite to anyone else you think might want to come as
well.
Our public demo is this Fri from <span
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on
campus (in Hagey Hall 373).<br><br>best, chris<br><br></span><br
style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">International
brain researchers
exhibit brain-inspired technologies</span><br><br>WATERLOO,
Ont. (Thursday, <span
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style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">June 18,
2015)</span></span> –The University of Waterloo is hosting a
two-week workshop to teach researchers how to build sophsticated brain
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style="display: inline; font-size: inherit; padding: 0pt;">Tomorrow,</span></span>
participants from around the world will demonstrate
the large-scale brain
models they have built over the last two weeks, running on laptops,
robots, and specialized brain-like computers while simulating neural
functions.<br><br>The
projects reproduces behaviours such as seeing, learning, spatial
navigation, and high-level action planning, using new kinds of
biologically inspired sensors (including an artificial retina, a leech
robot, and artificial touch sensing skin) and brain-like computer
processors. The
workshop is focussed on using the Nengo brain simulator, developed by
Professor Chris Eliasmith's lab in Waterloo's Centre for Theoretical
Neuroscience, to build state-of-the-art cognitive and neural models.
This software was recently used to build the world's largest functional
brain model, Spaun, and provides users with a versatile and powerful
environment for simulating cognitive and neural systems. </span><br></span></div>
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