The International Conferences on Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University

这笔赠款将使一年一度的认知和神经系统国际会议能够在2000年5月24-27日和2001年5月继续举行。会议聚焦于两大主题：大脑是如何控制行为的？技术如何使生物智能成为可能？会议还将强调学习和智能系统。许多会议都涉及认知或神经生物学数据。一些会议讨论的是认知或神经学模型，但不是两者兼而有之。然而，其他会议正在讨论人工神经网络和其他神经形态应用。认知和神经系统会议的独特之处在于，它涵盖了认知和神经实验和模型，以及一系列智能应用，并在具有单一程序轨道的会议计划中进行。这次会议之所以准备这样做，是因为这正是波士顿大学设立CNS研究生项目的目的。会议将包括受邀的教程和讲座，以及专家关于大脑和其他智能系统如何适应不断变化的世界的生物学和技术的演讲和海报。会议面向计算神经科学、连接论者、认知科学、人工神经网络、神经形态工程学和人工智能的研究人员和学生。

This grant would enable the annual International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems to continue on May 24-27, 2000 and in May, 2001. The conference focuses on the two general themes: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? and How Can Technology Enable Biological Intelligence? The conference would also emphasize Learning and Intelligent Systems. Many conferences are covering cognitive or neurobiological data. A few conferences are covering cognitive or neurological models, but not both. Yet other conferences are covering artificial neural networks and other neuromorphic applications . The Cognitive and Neural Systems conference is unique in covering both cognitive and neural experiments and models, as well as a range of intelligent applications, and doing so within a conference program with a single program track. The meeting was prepared to do this because this is precisely what the CNS graduate program at Boston Universitiy was created to do. The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionists cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence.