In <5fasrs$756 at sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>, flefever at ix.netcom.com(F. Frank LeFever) writes:
>>Have you checked out the Academy's website? Among other things, it
>gives instructions on how to propose Academy-sponsored conferences,
>which will eventually be reported in Annals.
>>Do you KNOW of engineers who could collaborate with neuroscientists in
>organizing such a conference? Put bugs in their ears...
>>http://www.nyas.org>>Frank LeFever
>Vice-chair, Linguistics Section, NYAS
>(past-Chair & current member of
> Advisory Committee, Psychology Section)
>>>
I like the way you think!
NEED
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This is my personal opinion, but it seems that corporations, specially the
ones involved in high tech data processing hardware, do not perceive that
the time has arrived to make a mayor push in memory chip, hard-drive,
reliability (fault tolerance), new architectures,... research and development
based on what we know (can learn) about how the human brain works. There
are a few token groups, but you have to look hard to find them. People in
my position can do a lot of work to improve things here.
The neuroscientist view is not clear to me. I need some help here.
I feel that some of the questions asked by a neuroscientist could be like:
Why do we need to bother with engineers and simulate neural/sensory
functions in silicon if we can work with the real thing?
* Being able to simulate brain behavio in silicon would enable us to
better understand how true man/machine interface could be built.
* Engineers could help with the creation of next generation tools (the
ultimate tool would be a brain - without getting too fancy :-), like the brain
of a silicon rat that can report back what it experiences in a scientific manner.
* Extrapolate discoveries to other fields and accelerate progress
* why silicon? working together we could be able to manufacture 3D liquid-state
semiconductors (electrochemical devices like memistors)
TECHNOLOGY
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The notion of traveling to have a real conference (a working conference 5 to 10)
times a year is not realistic for most technical people unless there is a business
NEED. A more welcomed solution would be a virtual conference with the right "tools"
that would enable us to exchange opinions, charts, schematic diagrams, images realtime
in a meaningful (useful) way. The technology is here today, but it is expensive
to deploy.
One conference a year would be a very realistic first step, provided we
can get enough skilled/interested people. At least it is better than sitting
around complaining about how bad thing are right now <G>
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Bernie Arruza.
Boca Raton, Fl USA
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