ROBERT HECHT-NIELSON
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Robert Hecht-Nielson
Dr. Nielsen received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from Arizona State University. A member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of California, San Diego since 1986, he is co-founder of the UCSD Computational Neurobiology graduate program and the UCSD Institute for Neural Computation. His research interest is understanding the mathematical basis for cortical information processing. He has received the ECE Graduate Teaching Award and the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Medal. Talk blurb: "Vertebrates think using confabulation, which, in rigorous discourse, functions like Aristotelian logic; but which, in everyday life, works like the 'duck test.' Also, humans are much smarter than expected: the average person possesses roughly a billion individual items of knowledge. Every endeavor related to human or animal mentation must now undergo a total rethink."
