“The Human Algorithm,” a national symposium focusing on state of the art theories and controversies of our current computational understanding of human cognition, human capabilities, and human limitations, will be held at Dartmouth College, May 9 & 10, 2008.

Speakers include, left to right, Daniel Dennett, Tufts University; Patricia Churchland, UCSD and Salk Institute; and Marc Hauser, Harvard University.

Travis Green, ‘08, Neukom Intern and student body president has won a prestigious Mitchell Scholarship, one of 12 awarded annually to Americans under the age of 30, to pursue a year of postgraduate study at any university on the island of Ireland. Green, who is majoring in natural and artificial intelligence, will use his scholarship to pursue a doctorate degree in neuroscience at University College, Dublin. Full story in Dartmouth life

AUSTIN, TEXAS - 24 Sept 2007: At the 2007 Power Architecture Developer Conference (PADC) today, IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced the winners of its first annual Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) Processor University Challenge.

From the thousands of innovative entries, winning designs featured never-before-seen uses of the Cell/ B.E. technology, including large-scale modeling of the human brain; a system for mapping massive amounts of real-time data; a path to deliver complex, 3-D medical images to a desktop computer; and a new way to detect extremely fast moving objects.

First Place - Cluster of Sony PlayStation3’s used for large-scale modeling of the human brain, Neukom Institute at Dartmouth and UC Irvine.

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