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SUMMARY:Deep Learning: Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Intelligence - 
 Professor Terrence Sejnowski 
DTSTART:20170502T170000Z
DTEND:20170502T180000Z
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CONTACT:Jens Steffensen
DESCRIPTION:Deep learning is based on technical advances made by the neura
 l network revolution in the 1980’s. Why did it take so long for neural n
 etworks to recognise speech and objects in images at human levels? What we
 re the breakthroughs that made deep learning possible? Which industries wi
 ll deep learning disrupt and how will deep learning change your life? Thes
 e are some of the issues that this public lecture will explore.\n\nAbout t
 he speaker\n\nProf Terrence Sejnowski received his PhD in physics from Pri
 nceton University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University an
 d the Harvard Medical School. He served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins Un
 iversity and was a Wiersma Visiting Professor of Neurobiology and a Sherma
 n Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech. \n\nHe is now an Investigato
 r with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and holds the Francis Crick Cha
 ir at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies.\nHe is also a Professor o
 f Biology at the University of California\, San Diego\, where he is co-dir
 ector of the Institute for Neural Computation and co-director of the NSF T
 emporal Dynamics of Learning Center. He is a pioneer in computational neur
 oscience and his goal is to understand the principles that link brain to b
 ehaviour. \n\nHis laboratory uses both experimental and modelling techniqu
 es to study the biophysical properties of synapses and neurons and the pop
 ulation dynamics of large networks of neurons. New computational models an
 d new analytical tools have been developed to understand how the brain rep
 resents the world and how new representations are formed through learning 
 algorithms for changing the synaptic strengths of connections between neur
 ons.\n\nHe has published over 500 scientific papers and 12 books\, includi
 ng The Computational Brain\, with Patricia Churchland. Dr Sejnowski is the
  President of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation\
 , which organises an annual conference attended by over 6000 researchers i
 n machine learning and neural computation and is the founding editor-in-ch
 ief of Neural Computation published by the MIT Press. He is a member of th
 e Institute of Medicine\, National Academy of Sciences and the National Ac
 ademy of Engineering\, one of only ten current scientists elected to all t
 hree national academies.
LOCATION:Lady Mitchell Hall\, Sidgewick Site\, Cambridge
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