ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW BOOK

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           COMPUTATIONAL-NEUROSCIENCE BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
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                 FROM THE RETINA TO THE NEOCORTEX
                  SELECTED PAPERS OF DAVID MARR
                   Edited by Lucia Vaina (1991)

                  Distributer: Birkhauser Boston
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ISBN 0-8176-3472-X
ISBN 3-7643-3472-X
Cost: $49
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MAIN CONTENTS: the book contains papers by David Marr, which are placed
in the framework of current computational neuroscience by leaders in each
of the subfields represented by these papers.

(1) Early Papers 

           1. A Theory of Cerebellar Cortex [1969]
              with commentary by Thomas Thach

           2. How the Cerebellum May be Used (with S. Blomfield) [1970]
              with commentary by Jack D. Cowan

           3. Simple Memory: A Theory of Archicortex [1971]
              with commentaries by David Willshaw & Bruce McNaughton

           4. A Theory of Cerebral Neocortex [1970]
              with commentary by Jack D. Cowan

           5. A Computation of Lightness by the Primate Retina [1974]
              with commentary by Norberto M. Grzywacz


(2) Binocular Depth Perception

           6. A Note on the Computation of Binocular Disparity in a 
              Symbolic, Low-Level Visual Processor [1974]     

           7. Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity 
              (with T.Poggio) [1976]

           8. Analysis of a Cooperative Stereo Algorithm 
              (with G.Palm, T.Poggio) [1978]

           9. A Computational Theory of Human Stereo Vision 
              (with T. Poggio) [1979]
              with commentary on Binocular Depth Perception by
              Ellen C. Hildreth and W. Eric L. Grimson   


(3) David Marr: A Pioneer in Computational Neuroscience
                by Terrence J. Sejnowski

(4) Epilogue: Remembering David Marr
              by former students and  colleagues: Peter Rado, Tony Pay,
              G.S. Brindley, Benjamin Kaminer, Francis H. Crick,
              Whitman Richards, Tommy Poggio, Shimon Ullman,
              Ellen Hildreth.