Anhinga anhinga playground

Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems: a talk by Geoffrey Hinton, Apr. 27, 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIRCybGgHts

( Some of the highlights of this remarkable lecture )

Tenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems:
http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/2006conference.html
http://cns-web.bu.edu/cns-meeting/2006schedule.html

This review consists of 3 parts:
1) Plenary lecture: Ken Ford (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
"Toward cognitive prostheses"
2) NSF Science of Learning Centers program and how its impact feels at the conference
3) Various results (mostly reviewed in my LJ already)

1) Eyeglasses as an example of a brilliant ocular prosthesis: human-centered, fit for a particular person, etc, etc. Ford wants to make systems that can be regarded as cognitive or perceptual prostheses..

1.1) OZ cockpit display (the starting example):

we can have this aircraft instrument panel

http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/08/30.html
instead of traditional aircraft instrument panels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit

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There is too many notes related to 10th ICCNS conference to be made. So I'll probably keep them here and will make digests in the main journal once in a while.

Various retrograde amnesia effects are well known. James McGaugh of the University of California at Irvine demostrated the effects of retrograde memory enhancement if norepinephrine is increased after a learning experience (via stress or some other mechanism, like direct injection of norepinephrine or cortisol, or stimulation of the BLA (basolateral complex of the amygdala).( Read more... )

Ermentrout, Rinzel:
http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/bardware/meth3/meth3.html