COPN WORKSHOP
NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 3 2011
HILTON, CRYSTAL CITY
2399 JEFFERSON DAVIS HWY
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
One of the two 2008 NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation topics was Cognitive Optimization and Prediction: From Neural Systems to Neurotechnology (COPN).
This two-day workshop (December 1-2, 2011) is aimed at bringing together NSF-EFRI-COPN principal investigators and students, NSF-EFRI-COPN program directors, and representatives from academia, federal agencies and industries to discuss methods and approaches to address the two goals of the 2008 EFRI COPN topic.
The first goal is to understand how massively parallel circuits in brains address complex tasks in adaptive optimal decision-making and prediction, and to understand the system identification circuits in the brain which help make it possible. The second goal is to use this understanding to develop new general-purpose designs or algorithms for optimal decision-making over time, or prediction, or both, powerful enough to work existing benchmark challenges in simulation or in physical test beds taken from engineering.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for the COPN teams to present their research activities to each other, to foster synergetic interactions among them; to identify gaps and future research needs not currently addressed by the four NSF-EFRI-COPN funded projects; and reach out to a boarder national and international COPN community.
Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy
Workshop Chair