October 23rd WICI Seminar with Dr. Chris Eliasmith

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Upcoming WICI Seminar!



On Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 from 2-4pm in M3 2134, Dr. Chris Eliasmith, Professor of Philosophy & Design Systems Engineering at the University of Waterloo, will describe the methods and tools used to construct what is currently the world's largest *functional* brain simulation. All are welcome!

Reserve your (free) ticket on the event's page here<http://wici.ca/new/event/chris-eliasmith/>.


Recent high-profile brain simulations, including those of the 1 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.

In this talk, Dr. Eliasmith describes the methods and tools used to construct what is currently the world's largest *functional* brain simulation, called the Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun). He demonstrates some of the behaviours the model exhibits and shows that it is similar in many respects to human and animal behaviour. Eliasmith argues that this provides support for the effectiveness of the proposed methods and tools in dealing with complex system synthesis. He concludes with suggestions as to why the tools are effective.


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Next Scheduled Event
WICI Data Visualization & Analysis Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Sheelagh Carpendale, Computer Science, University of Calgary
Dates: Thursday, November 21st & Friday, November 22nd
Location: Mathematics 3, room 2134 & The Quantum-Nano Centre, Room 1502



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