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SUMMARY:FI Computational Methods and Data Science Journal Club: Christos H
 . Papadimitriou
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DESCRIPTION: \n\nFI Computational Methods and Data Science Journal Club\n
 \nFlatiron Institute\, 162 5th Avenue\n\nSpeaker: Christos H. Papadimitrio
 u\n\nTitle: How does the brain beget the mind?\n\nAbstract: \nHow
  do molecules\, cells and synapses effect reasoning\, planning\, languag
 e? Despite dazzling progress in experimental neuroscience\, as well as in
  cognitive science at the other extreme of scale\, we do not seem to be 
 making progress in the overarching question -- the gap is huge and a c
 ompletely new approach seems to be required. As Richard Axel recently p
 ut it: "We need a logic for the transformation of neural activity int
 o thought..."  What kind of formal system would qualify as this "logic"?
  I will introduce the assembly calculus\, a computational system and p
 rogramming framework which appears to be a promising bridge between neuro
 ns and cognition. Through this framework\, a Parser was recently implemen
 ted which (a) can handle reasonably complex sentences of English and other
  languages\, and (b) works exclusively through the spiking of neurons.\n\n
 Bio:\nChristos Harilaos Papadimitriou is the Donovan Family Professor of
  Computer Science at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia in 
 2017\, he was a professor at UC Berkeley for the previous 22 years\, and
  before that he taught at Harvard\, MIT\, NTU Athens\, Stanford\, and U
 CSD. He has written five textbooks and many articles on algorithms and co
 mplexity\, and their applications to optimization\, databases\, control\, 
 AI\, robotics\, economics and game theory\, the Internet\, evolution\, and
  recently the brain. He holds a PhD from Princeton (1976)\, and eight
  honorary doctorates\, including from ETH\, University of Athens\, EPFL\
 , and Univ. de Paris Dauphine. He is a member of the National Academy of 
 Sciences of the US\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the N
 ational Academy of Engineering\, and he has received the Knuth prize\, the
  Go"del prize\, the von Neumann medal\, as well as the 2018 Harvey P
 rize by Technion.  He has also written three novels: “Turing \,” 
 “Logicomix” and his latest “Independence.\n\nFI employees are welco
 me. Visitors please email ccaadmin@flatironinstitute.org to register.\n\n
  \n\nhttps://indico.flatironinstitute.org/event/2692/
LOCATION:IDA\, 2nd Floor Auditorium (Flatiron Institute)
URL:https://indico.flatironinstitute.org/event/2692/
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