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Dear colleagues:<br>
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The <a
href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/program-summer-2015.html">BMI
summer program 2015</a> is now available:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/programs.html">http://www.brain-mind-institute.org/programs.html</a><br>
Courses to be offered: <br>
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BMI 831: Cognitive Science, emphasizing learning and memory. <br>
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BMI 861: BMI 861 Brain Automata Theory (new): <br>
This course is designed for researchers and students who would like
to learn how brain automata works. It is intended for those majoring
in biology, neuroscience, psychology, electrical engineering, and
all other disciplines, but also including those in computer science
who would like to replace, or take an alternative of, a traditional
automata theory course. Basic models of computation. Agents. Finite
Automata. Turing Machines. Universal Turing Machines. Brain as
Finite Automata. Grounded brains as Turing Machines. Time and space
complexity. Brain perception. Brain cognition. Brain abstraction.
Brain decision-making. Brain reasoning. Brain thinking. Why deep
learning, convolution, and error back-propagation are not only
biologically implausible but also computationally inferior to the
brain automata. (Letters for credit transfer into your own degree
program will be provided by BMI.)<br>
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BMI 871: Computational Brain-Mind<br>
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Conference ICBM: International Conference on Brain-Mind: East
Lansing, Michigan,
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June 20 - 21, 2015<br>
The subjects of interest include, but not limited to:
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<li><strong>Genes</strong>: inheritance, evolution, species,
environments, nature vs. nurture, and evolution vs. development.</li>
<li><strong>Cells</strong>: cell models, cell learning, cell
signaling, tissues, morphogenesis, and tissue development.</li>
<li><strong>Circuits</strong>: features, clustering,
self-organization, cortical circuits, Brodmann areas,
representation, classification, and regression.</li>
<li><strong>Streams</strong>: pathways, intra-modal attention,
vision, audition, touch (including kinesthetics, temperature),
smell, and taste.</li>
<li><strong>Brain ways</strong>: neural networks, brain-mind
architecture, inter-modal attention, multisensory integration,
and neural modulation (punishment/serotonin/pain,
reward/dopamine/pleasure/sex,
novelty/acetylcholine/norepinephrine, higher emotion).</li>
<li><strong>Experiences/learning</strong>: training, learning,
development, interaction, performance metrics, and functions of
genome.</li>
<li><strong>Behaviors:</strong> actions, motor development,
concept learning, abstraction, languages, decision making,
reasoning, and creativity.</li>
<li><strong>Societies/multi-agent</strong>: joint attention, swarm
intelligence, group intelligence, genders, races, science of
organization, constitutions, laws, and cultures.</li>
<li><strong>Diseases</strong>: depression, ADD/ADHD, drug
addiction, dyslexia, autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, vision loss, and hearing loss.</li>
<li><strong>Applications</strong>: image analysis, computer
vision, speech recognition, pattern recognition, robotics,
artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and prosthetics.</li>
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<strong>Important dates</strong>: <br>
Course applications <span class="color-in-selected-button">(to get
admitted so that you can register)</span>: by Sunday, April 5,
2015<br>
ICBM full papers: by Sunday, April 19, 2015<br>
ICBM abstracts: by Sunday, April 26, 2015<br>
Notification of admission: Monday, April 27, 2015<br>
Advance registration: by Sunday, May 10, 2015<br>
International Conference on Brain Mind (ICBM): June 20-21, 2015<br>
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