Neural Engineering Conference; Cancun, Mexico; September 17-21, 2003

2003年9月17日至21日在墨西哥坎昆举行的ieee医学和生物学工程年会和会议为神经系统和工程轨道提供了支持。神经工程是神经科学与工程学相结合的一个相对较新的领域。它包括神经传感、编码、神经假体、神经建模、神经技术和神经网络。会议的目标是让初级教授有机会在其职业生涯的早期参与组织技术会议。通过在组织过程中引入新鲜血液，预计会议将在短期内受益，而初级教师将在长期内受益。第二个目标是促进神经工程领域的卓越发展。这将通过为学生、初级教师和博士后研究人员提供旅行支持，并通过一位杰出的主讲人来实现。第三个目标是促进工程师和科学家之间的密切互动。神经科学家通常不参加工程会议，但却在研究类似的问题。将为这些科学家出席会议提供有限的旅费支持。神经工程是一个新的领域，具有巨大的科学发现潜力，它的未来取决于聪明的科学家和工程师的职业生涯。这次会议将促进与这一新兴领域有关的卓越研究的发展。

0333131DurandSupport is provided for the Neural Systems and Engineering track of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and Biology annual meeting and conference in Cancun, Mexico, September 17-21, 2003. Neural Engineering is a relatively new field at the interface between neuroscience and engineering. It encompasses neural sensing, coding, neural prostheses, neural modeling, neurotechnology, and neural networks. A goal of the conference is to give junior professors an opportunity to participate in the organization of a technical meeting early in their careers. By bringing new blood in the organizational process it is expected that the conference will benefit in the short run and the junior faculty will benefit in the long run. A second goal is to promote excellence in the field of neural Engineering. This will be accomplished by providing travel support for students, junior faculty, and post-doctoral researchers, and by having an outstanding key-note note speaker. The third goal is to promote close interaction between engineers and scientists. Neuroscientists do not normally attend engineering meetings and yet work on similar problems. Limited travel support is to be provided for such scientists to attend the conference.Neural Engineering is a new field with a great potential for new scientific discoveries and depends for its future on the careers of bright scientists and engineers. The conference will contribute to the development of excellence in the research associated with this emerging field.