Neural Computation

Catalog description

Neural computation spans the full arc from biological brains to engineered systems. This course begins with the anatomy and physiology of the human brain, traces the developmental program that wires 86 billion neurons, formalizes the plasticity rules that enable learning, and examines the theories of consciousness that define what it means for a system to be aware. The second half turns outward: connectome-to-function mapping, whole-brain emulation, biological computing with living neurons, brain-computer interfaces, and the specialization of silicon hardware from CPUs through GPUs to model-specific ASICs. Prerequisite(s): . Recommended: