Neuronal Computation: A Computer Engineer’s Viewpoint

Presented on 6/23/99 at the Neurological Surgery Grand Rounds

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Neuronal Computation A Computer Engineer’s Viewpoint 
What does it really do…?
Brains do compute
Consider a similar problem
You’d develop a research plan
You’d discover the brain: A CPU
You’d make a key observation
1. Transistors have gain and are nonlinear
2. Gain/nonlinearity ? switching/restoration
3. Switching enables mathematics
4. Mathematics affords computation
Paradigms underlying digital computation
Consider neurobiology
My research
1. Theoretical CS and neurobiology
1. Theoretical CS and neurobiology (con’t)
2. Use microelectronics to probe neurobiology
2. Microelectronics and neurobiology (con’t)
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3. Modeling ICs after neurobiology
3. Modeling ICs after neurobiology (con’t)
3. Modeling ICs after neurobiology (con’t)
Computer engineers studying neurobiology???
Author: Chris Diorio 

Email: diorio@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/diorio/