The International Conferences on Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University

这笔拨款将使认知和神经系统年度国际会议在2000年5月24日至27日和2001年5月继续举行。本次会议主要关注两个主题：大脑如何控制行为？科技如何实现生物智能？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。一些会议涉及认知或神经模型，但不是两者都有。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在涵盖认知和神经实验和模型以及一系列智能应用方面是独一无二的，并且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CNS研究生项目的初衷。会议将包括特邀教程和讲座，以及由专家就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提供的讲座和海报。本次会议面向计算神经科学、连接学家、认知科学、人工神经网络、神经形态工程和人工智能领域的研究人员和学生。

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.