SHLENS, Jonathan
<p>Apr 29, 2012 11:29 AM
 
msg from Tom Dean...
 
Jonathon Shlens who works for me at Google will be joining us for Monday's discussion. Jon is an accomplished neuroscientist who has worked with <b>E.J. Chichilnisky and Eero Simoncelli</b> among others. His tutorials on information theory, principal components and other topics on the mathematics related to computational neuroscience are renowned for their clarity and insight.  He is also a superb software engineer and statistician.  You can find pointers to his excellent tutorials and a list of his publications on his Salk Institute home <a href="http://www.snl.salk.edu/shlens/" target="_blank">page</a>. He knows a great deal about neural modeling and will help us to critique the Edelman and Izhikevich paper and perhaps revisit some of the claims in Markram's talk.</p>
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<div>In other news, thanks to Rohan's efforts, a $3,000 gift for GPU hardware from Google, and Andrew Ng's generosity and that of his students, we will soon have five linux boxes each equipped with a powerful GPU and available for your use in Gates B38. If you're planning to use these machines, please contact Rohan and volunteer to help out. More details to follow soon.</div>
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