I promised late last year to put up a preliminary announcement of our
major event for this semester. Hence…
Over May 21 & 22, 2007, the Institute will host a national “Decade of
the Mind” Symposium. “Decade of the Mind” will launch what is
anticipated to be the starting point of a ten-year research
initiative that will focus on the study of the mind from an
interdisciplinary perspective that includes neuroscience, cognitive
science, computer science, computational social sciences,
computational biology and psychology. Eight speakers (listed below)
have been confirmed to speak over the two-day period. The speakers
will also participate in the finalizing of the “manifesto” document
that will present the future scope and goals for the “Decade of
Mind”. Not insignificantly, the symposium will add to the
celebratory atmosphere at the Institute surrounding the completion of
laboratory expansion wing.
I am proud to announce the extraordinary group of “Decade of the
Mind” symposium guest speakers:
George Bekey (USC)
Floyd Bloom (Neurome, Inc.)
Patricia Churchland (UCSD)
John Holland (UMich)
Nancy Kanwisher (MIT)
Gordon Shepherd (YALE)
Vernon Smith (GMU)
Giulio Tononi (UWisc)
As the program and logistical details for the “Decade of the Mind”
Symposium become finalized, they will be posted on the Institute's
“News and Events” web page.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 