SyNAPSE received a mention in IBM’s 2012 Annual Report (page 15).
Connectivity of a Cognitive Computer Based on the Macaque Brain
This week SyNAPSE made the cover of Science by winning the First Place in Illustration Category of 2012 Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Here are the link to cover and an article about it.
Quotes from Judges:
Biologist and judge Michael Reddy says that a cognitive computer is “the last thing on Earth” he would have guessed that the image represented at first glance. Inspired by the neural architecture of a macaque, it is the wiring diagram for a new kind of computer that, by some definitions, may soon be able to think.
“They took something that we know works fantastically efficiently in nature— the circuitry of the brain—and applied that geometry to computing. Then, they found an elegant and beautiful way to display it.,” judge Thomas Wagner says.
Rich Club Organization of Macaque Cerebral Cortex and Its Role in Network Communication
Building on previous work by Raghavendra Singh and myself (Network architecture of the long-distance pathways in the macaque brain), Professor Olaf Sporns and colleagues recently published a very interesting paper in PLOS ONE.
EE Times 40th Anniversary: 10 visionaries to watch
Please see link.
Council of Scientific Society Presidents
The Council of Scientific Society Presidents is an organization of presidents, presidents-elect, and recent past presidents of about sixty scientific federations and societies whose combined membership numbers over 1.4 million scientists and science educators.
On December 8, 2012, at CSSP annual meeting in Washington, DC, I presented SyNAPSE in the session entitled “Frontiers of 21st Century Science”. The other speakers included Kavli Prize winner Professor Mildred Dresselhaus and HHMI Scientist Professor Gregory Hannon.