Cognitive Computing 2007

Cognitive Computing 2007

May 2-3, 2007
The Auditorium of the Berkeley Art Museum
University of California, Berkeley
CITRIS and NERSC Sponsored Research

Event Program

  • Welcome
    • Gary Baldwin, CITRIS Executive Director
  • Opening Remarks and Activities within NERSC
    • Horst Simon, NERSC Director and Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for Computing Sciences
  • Welcome
    • Masoud Nikravesh, UC Berkeley, Cognitive Computing Chair
  • Industry-University Cooperative Research Program (IUCRP)
    • Mona Y. Lee, UC Discovery Grant
  • Towards Engineering the Mind by Reverse Engineering the Brain
    • Dharmendra S. Modha, IBM Almaden Research Center
  • Towards an Understanding of Cortical Function: Problems and Solutions
    • Ed Callaway, Salk Institute
  • From Cognitive Neuroscience to Computing Architectures
    • Michael Arbib, USC
  • SPECIAL LECTURE: The Brain might Optimize Visual Acuity using Cortical Noise via Stochastic Resonance/Sampling
    • Nobelist Donald Glaser, UC Berkeley
  • Bridging the Gap between Cortical Structure and Cortical Function
    • Almut Schüz, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics
  • The Ersatz Brain Project
    • James Anderson, Brown University
  • Opening Remarks and Activities within CITRIS
    • Shankar Sastry, CITRIS Director
  • Understanding Speech
    • Robert Hecht-Nielsen, UC San Diego
  • Intelligence for the Humanoid Robot ASIMO: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Principles of Processing in the Brain
    • Edgar Koerner, President, Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
  • The Human Visual Pathways: Maps, Plasticity, and Reading
    • Brian A. Wandell, Stanford
  • Principles of Cognition as Adaptations to the World
    • Roger Shepard, Professor Emeritus, Stanford
  • Panel: VC’s, Entrepreneurs, and Innovators: The Future of Cognitive Computing
    • Moderator: Jerome Swartz, The Swartz Foundation for Computational Neuroscience
    • Tony Bell, Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
    • Jose M. Carmena, EECS and Cognitive Sciences, UC Berkeley
    • Dileep George, Numenta
    • Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
    • Paul Rhodes, Stanford & Evolved Machines, Inc.
    • Lloyd Watts, Audience, Inc.
  • Masoud Nikravesh, UC Berkeley, Closing Remarks