Sentences with phrase «brain project working»

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«There are fundamental changes that will happen now that computer vision really works,» says Jeff Dean, who leads the Google Brain project.

The critically acclaimed project worked because it instantly evokes a strong emotional response in viewers» hearts and brains.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

I set up the Little Blossoms Project, working alongside Love Support Unite Africa Foundation, aiming to harness the power of parents, families and communities to improve mother and baby health and early brain development in children aged 0 - 3 years, through educational programs and nutrition.

For his own recent brain imaging work, Monk has teamed up with a large existing project to get a larger sample, but even then, he says, «it's still questionable whether or not the sample can be made representative.»

The technique will be invaluable for studying how the brain works as a whole, says Stephen Smith, a researcher at Stanford University who was not involved in the project.

In January 2008, working with the Computational Brain Project of the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nicolelis took another step forward, this time with Idoya, a rhesus monkey trained to walk upright on a treadmill for treats.

The Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a Brain Activity Map project launched recently by President Obama — and funded to the tune of $ 100 million in the US budget announcement earlier this month — highlights the need for research that focuses both on how individual neurons work and the ways that different regions of the brain work together as a brain work together as a unit.

Dirk Keene, a neuropathologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who is working with McKee on another project to quantify the pathological changes in CTE, notes that the fact that men with damaged brains developed symptoms does not prove that the brain pathology caused the symptoms.

«When you deplete these reserves — whether through sleep deprivation, which alters how the brain and body use energy, or through pushing too hard on too many projects — the quality of your work plummets, along with the usual pleasure of working on something important, such as doing good science.»

Ione Fine, a neuroscientist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who studies brain changes and did not work on the project, says Amedi's work is the best evidence yet for functional constancy — the idea that areas of the brain do the same job even with different kinds of input.

Scientists working for Professor Florian Holzapfel are researching ways in which brain controlled flight might work in the EU - funded project «Brainflight.»

The project builds off past work demonstrating memory strengthening by stimulating the brain's entorhinal region, the gateway to long - term memory storage in the hippocampus.

My project was in neuroscience, working on a model of epilepsy using electrophysiological recordings from brain slices.

«The octopus nervous system is organized in a totally different way from ours: The central brain surrounds the esophagus, which is typical of invertebrates, but it also has groups of neurons in the arms that can work relatively autonomously, plus huge optic lobes involved in vision,» said Daniel Rokhsar, who co-led the project along with Clifton Ragsdale, of the University of Chicago.

«In our project, we are looking at how the brain makes hypnotic states possible,» explains Professor Wolfgang Miltner, who has been working on the phenomenon for decades.

The endocrinologists then enlisted the help of Rush researchers who specialize in the issues of the aging brain, and the expanded team set to work with data from three long - term group studies done at Rush from 1993 to 2012 — the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), the Religious Orders Study (ROS), and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP).

One of its driving forces is co-director Henry Markram of EPFL, who has worked on the Blue Brain project for years and sees computing as the way to understand the true workings of the human bBrain project for years and sees computing as the way to understand the true workings of the human brainbrain.

«To me the jury is out,» says David Van Essen of Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, one of the leaders of the Human Connectome Project, which is working on a comprehensive map of the brain's neural connections.

Kozai's lab is currently working with Franca Cambi, professor of neurology at Pitt, on a project to understand the role of another type of glial cell on brain injury and neuronal activity.

The highlight of that work so far has been the Blue Brain project, which is on its third IBM Blue Gene supercomputer at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, or EPFL, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

«A lot of work that initiated this project stemmed from what we learned about how these pathways work in normal brain development, and as we learn more about how it normally works we think it'll provide us with novel insight about how to target it in disease.»

Working on the internally - funded project for nearly a decade to develop the algorithms, software and stimulation sleeve, Battelle scientists first recorded neural impulses from an electrode array implanted in a paralyzed person's brain.

One of Freeman's big projects is working with collaborators to study how nerve cells in the brains of mice respond to touch.

But, in reality, it never ended.The continuing celebration of all things brain extends, once more, with the unveiling of a mammoth Web site devoted to neuroscience.Brainfacts.org — funded with $ 1.53 million project over six years by the Gatsby and Kavli Foundations — amasses basic information from leading organizations, ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the International Brain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain disebrain extends, once more, with the unveiling of a mammoth Web site devoted to neuroscience.Brainfacts.org — funded with $ 1.53 million project over six years by the Gatsby and Kavli Foundations — amasses basic information from leading organizations, ranging from the National Institutes of Health to the International Brain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain diseBrain Research Organization in France, chronicling both how the brain works as well as major brain disebrain works as well as major brain disebrain diseases.

So when's the last time you took a break from analyzing your data to speculate on which Hollywood hunk should portray the handsome male postdoc, or which famous actress projects the right combination of brains and sex appeal for the postdoc working at the next bench?

The Blue Brain Project is working to model a complete human bBrain Project is working to model a complete human brainbrain.

We work closely with our partner organization The Wrinkled Brain Project to generate innovative educational content.

Do you want to work for the Wrinkled Brain Project?

Brain images by Hanna Damasio will be projected during the world premiere of Self Comes to Mind, a new work by composer Bruce Adolphe, based on the work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio.

Collaborations with outstanding oncologists at the Siteman Cancer Center, the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project with St. Jude Children's Hospital, and our role in The Cancer Genome Atlas, let us work on many of the common cancer types — notably breast cancer and ovarian cancer, as well as brain, colorectal, renal, and others.

The historic global brainstorm was moderated by Dr. Rafi Gidron, leading Israeli entrepreneur and founder of Israel Brain Technologies, with the participation of Professor Henry Markram, Director of the E.U.'s Human Brain Project, U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, Architect of the White House Interagency Working Group on Neuroscience, Ms. Inez Jabalpurwala, CEO of Brain Canada, John Jeans, Life Sciences Champion for MedTech Appointed by the U.K. Prime Minister, and Allan Jones, CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science.

Obviously, for this goal, we need the collaboration of people working outside of neuroscience and also efficient cooperation among the global brain projects.

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

Estimates reveal that their brains were comparable in size to those of some of the world's first known humans, australopithecines, as well as those of today's gorillas, Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who did not directly work on the project, told Discovery News.

Project researchers are working to obtain high - resolution brain scans of 1,200 healthy adults, along with information about their cognitive abilities, personalities, and other characteristics.

He worked in several research projects focused on the in vivo functional imaging of brain by nonlinear microscopy.

Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project to create a virtual model of a working human brain, believes that by 2020 we'll reach the point where a computer model will be able to diagnose our emotional sBrain Project to create a virtual model of a working human brain, believes that by 2020 we'll reach the point where a computer model will be able to diagnose our emotional sbrain, believes that by 2020 we'll reach the point where a computer model will be able to diagnose our emotional state.

Since March 2017, he has a post-doc position at LENS, where is devoting his research work on neuronal and vascular investigations in the framework of the Human Brain Project.

in graduate school where I worked on a project aiming to dedifferentiate mouse brain cells into neural stem cells.

The «Human Brain Project» will create the world's largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain, for studying how the human brain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related diseBrain Project» will create the world's largest experimental facility for developing the most detailed model of the brain, for studying how the human brain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related disebrain, for studying how the human brain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related disebrain works and ultimately to develop personalised treatment of neurological and related diseases.

What is worse is that this may cause me to get behind on life including meeting deadlines on work projects, canceling the gym, canceling other plans... all because you can barely keeps your eyes open and brain functioning... is this normal?

Instead of surfing your Facebook at work because your brain is too tired to focus on more important tasks, you can actually start working on the long - term project that is going to take your career to the next level.

I love that I get to work different parts of my brain, from focusing on the business to getting hands - on with creative projects throughout the day.

Basu was also added to the Universal Monsters brain - trust and was expected to help the studio develop their cinematic universe, there were no specific projects he was working on.

She is working on the project «Cinema and the brain: Eisenstein - Vygotsky - Luria's collaboration» supported by an ARC DECRA.

Godzilla's mediocrity should not come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the work of the «brains» behind the project, the team of co - writer / producer Dean Devlin and co - writer / director Roland Emmerich.

Don't forget brain breaks and other strategies to break up the work, and include quiet time for individual thinking and work to allow for balance and different ways of working and thinking on a project.

So a tired and fuzzy brain is much more use to us when working on creative projects.

After about a decade in the French diplomatic service, he joined the OECD and founded there in 1999, within the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) the project entitled «Brain Research and Learning Sciences,» which brought together experts from almost 50 different countries and is considered a seminal work in the field of educational neuroscience.