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Brain Workshop


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December 3-5, 2014

Hotel Sofitel
Washington, DC, United States



Event Contact

CCC Staff
ccc@cra.org


Event Type

2014 Events, 2014 Visioning Activities, Visioning Activities, Workshop


Event Category

CCC

Overview

On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched the Brain Research though Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative as a bold new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ways to treat, prevent, and cure brain disorders.  The initiative is a joint program with funding through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

New partnerships between computer scientists and neuroscientists could help create breakthrough technologies as a part of the BRAIN Initiative. In conjunction with the NSF, the CCC held a workshop to bring together these two communities to further explore the Interfaces between Brain Science and Computer Science.

Computer science and brain science share deep intellectual roots – after all, computer science sprang out Alan Turing’s musings about the brain in the spring of 1936.  Today, understanding the structure and function of the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our generation. Decades of study and continued progress in our knowledge of neural function and brain architecture have led to important advances in brain science, but a comprehensive understanding of the brain still lies well beyond the horizon.

This two-day workshop, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and National Science Foundation (NSF), brought together brain researchers and computer scientists for a scientific dialogue aimed at exposing new opportunities for joint research in the many exciting facets, established and new, of the interface between the two fields.

Click here for the workshop program PDF.

Agenda

December 3, 2014 (Wednesday)

05:30 PM Welcome and Overview of the Workshop Panels
06:30 PM Dinner
07:30 PM Introductions

December 4, 2014 (Thursday)

07:30 AM Breakfast
08:30 AM Welcome
08:40 AM Plenary: Aude Oliva, MIT Time, Space and Computation: Converging Human Neuroscience and Computer Science
09:30 AM Panel: Brain Mapping

Jeff Lichtman
Charless Fowlkes
Ragini Verma
James Haxby
Moderator: Polina Golland

11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM Panel: Brain / Mind / Body

Matt Botvinick
Naomi Hannah Feldman
Konrad Koerding
Raj Rao
Moderator: Stefan Schaal

Working lunch (1:00 – 2:00 PM)

02:00 PM Plenary: Jack Gallant, UC Berkeley, A Big Data Approach to Functional Characterization of the Mammalian Brain
02:45 PM Panel: Computing and the Brain

Shafi Goldwasser
Yann Lecun
Pietro Perona
Leslie Valiant
Bruno Olshausen
Moderator: Sanjeev Arora

04:15 PM Break
04:30 PM Breakout Sessions
06:15 PM Dinner
07:30 PM Plenary: Leslie Valiant, Harvard, Can Models of Computation in Neuroscience be Experimentally Validated?

December 5, 2014 (Friday)

07:30 AM Breakfast
Panel: Creating Open-Science Platforms for Heterogeneous Brain Data

Jeremy Freeman
Greg Farber
Joshua Vogelstein
Sean Hill
Moderator: Miyoung Chun

10:05 AM Plenary: Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute, Theory, Computation, Modeling and Statistics: Connecting the Dots from the BRAIN Initiative
10:50 AM Break
11:05 AM Breakout Sessions
12:00 PM Working Lunch
01:00 PM Breakout Reports
02:00 PM Workshop Concludes
Participants

Lightning Introduction Slides

Organizing Committee:

Polina Golland
Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gregory Hager
Chair of the Computer Science Department, The Johns Hopkins University

Christof Koch
Chief Scientific Officer, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Christos Papadimitriou (Chair)
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS, Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley

Hanspeter Pfister
An Wang Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University

Tal Rabin
Head of Cryptography Research Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Stefan Schaal
Professor, Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

Joshua Tenenbaum
Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kenneth Whang
Program Director, NSF

Ross Whitaker
Professor, School of Computing SCI Institute, University of Utah

Ann Drobnis
Director, Computing Community Consortium

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