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·December 21, 2011·5 min read

UCLA Neuroscientists Demonstrate Crucial Advances in Brain Reading

Innovative machine learning method anticipates neurocognitive changes, similar to predictive text-entry for cell phones, internet search engines At UCLA’s Laboratory...

·December 22, 2011·4 min read

Do You See What I See?

Scientists model brain structure to help computers recognize objects An essential question confronting neuroscientists and computer vision researchers alike is...

·March 2, 2012·2 min read

New Software Responds to Students’ Emotions, Boredom

Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students’ cognitive and emotional states – including frustration and boredom – has...

·March 9, 2012·5 min read

Teach Your Robot Well

Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if...

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·November 22, 2013·3 min read

Carnegie Mellon Computer Searches Web 24/7 To Analyze Images and Teach Itself Common Sense

The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) computer program is able to label images and learn associations with little human intervention.

This image shows a neuron created by numbers, like a matrix visual.

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·August 24, 2014·3 min read

Neuroscience and Big Data: How to Find Simplicity in the Brain

A new paper describes the scientific motivations for studying neural activity, along with a class of machine learning, called dimensionality reduction, for interpreting the activity.

This image is a sequence of graphs illustrates the application of the researchers' technique to a real-world computer vision problem.

·January 22, 2015·4 min read

Optimizing Optimization Algorithms

New analysis shows how to generate the best results when approximating solutions to complex engineering problems.

This image shows brain activity recorded by electrocorticography (blue circles). From the activity patterns (blue/yellow), spoken words can be recognized.

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·June 15, 2015·3 min read

Reconstructing Spoken Sentences From Brain Activity Patterns

Researchers show it is possible to reconstruct complete sentences of continuous speech from brain waves and generate corresponding text.

This image shows a draeing of a brain made up of interconnecting lines to represent a network.

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·July 17, 2015·4 min read

Algorithms Based on Brains Make For Better Networks

Researchers take inspiration from the developing brain to create improved computer algorithms.

This shows blue sound waves and letters in circles.

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·September 15, 2015·5 min read

Unsupervised Computer Learns Spoken Language

A new computer system has learned to distinguish words' phonetic components independent of human training or interaction.

Image shows descriptive writing, as if from a text based computer game.

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·September 24, 2015·4 min read

Computer System Learns Language by Playing Games

Researchers have designed a computer system that learns how to play a text-based computer game with no prior assumptions about how language works.

Image shows a reconstruction of cerebral cortex neurons using the SegEM program.

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·September 28, 2015·3 min read

Speeding Up Reconstruction of the Connectome

Researchers have developed new software that speeds up connectome analysis by up-to ten times.

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