Advances and Ethics of Human Memory Enhancement Join the CNS for a dialogue with Jonathan Moreno, Professor of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, and Dan Rizzuto, CEO of Nia Therapeutics. Graduate student Briana Last will lead the discussion. Wine and cheese will be served! RSVP at info@neuroethics.upenn.edu
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Pamela Zave Department of Computer Science Princeton University Location: Wu & Chen Auditorium, 101 Levine Hall The compositional architecture of the Internet In 1992 the explosive growth of the World Wide Web began. In 1993 the last major change was made to the “classic” Internet architecture. Since then the Internet has been […]
Cendri Hutcherson Department of Psychology University of Toronto Neurocomputational insights into social decision making, morality, and self-control Selfish, unethical, and short-sighted decisions lie at the heart of some of society’s most pressing problems, but it is unclear why people so often struggle to make good choices. Here, I show how a simple neurally-informed […]
Hongzhi Zhu, UPenn Can computers learn morphology? What can be learned about a language’s morphology just by observing a list of words? In this talk, I will investigate this question leveraging concepts from NLP. Given a list of words, the computer is tasked with segmenting each word in a wordlist automatically, and the […]
Mehrdad Jazayeri Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute for Brain Research MIT Bayesian computation through cortical dynamics Past experiences impress upon neural circuits information about statistical regularities of the environment, which help us in all manners of behavior, from reaching for one’s back pocket to tracking a friend’s voice in a […]