Connectionists: Brain-like computing fanfare and big data fanfare

[Gary Cottrell]

> On Jan 25, 2014, at 11:29 PM, james bower <bower at uthscsa.edu> wrote:
> 
> I don’t know if they taped and put on the web the big talk about it at the neuroscience meeting - but take a look in case you wonder.  (actually, I only lasted about 20 minutes myself).

it's here:

http://www.sfn.org/annual-meeting/neuroscience-2013/abstracts-and-sessions/public-events/specialpresentationvideo


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