(Computer) Vision without Sight: Finding, Reading, and Magnifying Text

Seminar: Oxyopia Seminar | October 1 | 11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall

Speaker/Performer: Roberto Manduchi, Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Sponsor: Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills

Reading is a pervasive activity in our daily life. We read text printed on books and documents, shown on directional signs and advertisement, and displayed on computer and smartphone screens. People who are blind can read text using OCR on their smartphone; those with low vision may magnify onscreen content. But these tasks are not always easy. Reading a document with OCR requires taking a...   More >

The Berkeley Stem Cell Center Director's Special Seminar: “From blood to brain: how do circulatory proteins regulate brain function?”

Seminar | October 11 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Tony Wyss-Coray, Stanford University School of Medicine

Sponsor: The Berkeley Stem Cell Center

​The generation of neural diversity​

Seminar | October 17 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 245 Li Ka Shing Center

Featured Speaker: Claude Desplan, New York University

Sponsor: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

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Berkeley ACM A.M. Turing Laureate Lecture: Towards a Conscious AI: A Computer Architecture Inspired by Neuroscience

Colloquium | October 17 | 4-5 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Manuel Blum, UC Berkeley

Sponsor: Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)

Thanks to major advances in neuroscience, we are on the brink of a scientific understanding of how the brain achieves consciousness. This talk will describe neuroscientist Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Model (GWM) of the brain, its implications for understanding consciousness, and a novel computer architecture that it inspires. The Model gives insight for the design of machines that truly...   More >

Division of Neurobiology and H. Wills Neuroscience Institute

Seminar | October 18 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | 101 Life Sciences Addition

Featured Speaker: Adam Kepecs

Sponsor: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

This seminar is partially sponsored by NIH