Thursday Spaun Chat

We've been getting a lot of questions from people about Spaun, the world's largest functional brain simulation recently published in Science. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1202)

While the software behind Spaun is open-source and available at http://nengo.ca, we thought it'd be good to invite interested people in for an informal chat about it. We'll do a quick ten-minute summary of our research, and then open up the discussion to answer any questions about Spaun and our other research. We'd love it if people were interested in playing with our software, and maybe even taking it in new directions.

Time: 12:00 noon, Thursday, Dec 6th
Location: 2464 PAS

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