The School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) is pleased to announce the expansion of the Rajan Recruitment Award. Women candidates who are applying for the Tenure-Track positions may be eligible for the Rajan Recruitment Award for Women in Computing Science,

We’re hiring! The School of Computing Science is receiving applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor and one full-time Lecturer position. Apply by December 15 here: https://t.co/W3bxjinL49

Doing final checks on my Intro to Programming book and I'm really psyched about it. It takes an approach to learning programming that reflects my journey in learning French and Japanese. If you can learn a second language, you can learn Python!

@mpshanahan This test has been stewing since I wrote this 8 years ago... A lot has changed since then, but some parts still remain valid https://t.co/HqM1hb2Igo

We tested a robot form, human-like character, animals, and objects. People change how they interact depending on looks. RTT Test https://t.co/e7gLggIvBj Full set of human behaviors https://t.co/EjDqHJDNrq We are inspired by @mpshanahan's essays and others. Feedback welcome!

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...such as kicking (pain), and other affective stimuli 4. The robot's responses to higher level emblems, eg. waving or heart gestures 5. The robot's responses to pointing to things in context, like clothing 6. The robot's responses to roleplay, especially based on its looks

In our preliminary experiments, people tested: 1. The robot's sensing abilities, such as whether it could track them visually or respond to poking 2. The robot's motor abilities, or whether they could copy their movements 3. The robot's responses to smiling, aggression,...

You have one minute to interact with a robot through movement only. At the end, you need to say whether it's tele-operated or not. That's the React to This (RTT) Test - one of the robot Turing tests presented at https://t.co/ze2BnPp1oq Here's how initial tests went down 👇

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now @PLOSCompBiol! 🫁 "The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making" https://t.co/2pJhrIPE41 We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

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7/ One of the canonical textbooks is this one, the Kandel. It has beautiful figures and is a good reference. There is so much to learn! Thanks to my SFU neuro colleagues for giving me some initial pointers - I'll be taking courses this Fall. Always open to more resources! /Fin

6/ Underneath the grey matter, we have white matter that is made up mostly of axons that connect more distant brain areas. It's white from the myelination of the axons, a process involved in long-term learning https://t.co/1IK4Bn99SQ

5/ Brodmann visually segmented the cortex based on patterns of neurons in these layers. It turns out that the areas he visually segmented differed functionally as well, resulting in the Brodmann areas. https://t.co/GIZg873jtX

4/ Grey matter in the cortex (primarily in the outer surface of the brain) is composed mostly of neurons and local connections. The cortex has 6 layers. Layer 4 is mainly connections to the thalamus which receives much of the body's sensory input.

Cup Noodle painterly study using YMA Painterly, @maxonredshift and @escapemotions

3/ ANNs model excitatory neurons. But there also exist inhibitory neurons! These reduce the likelihood of firing. We don't model inhibitory neurons in typical artificial NNs. Glutamate is the neurotransmitter involved in excitatory processes, and GABA for inhibitory ones.

2/ The human brain is not a purely feed-forward network like an ANN. It's a dynamical system with feedback loops. For instance, a seizure involves a cycle of uncontrolled activation, which afaik can't happen in your typical ANN

1/ In humans, the timing of input into a neuron matters. If you have two action potentials entering a soma, arriving at the same time could cause it to fire. BUT the same inputs with some delay between each other might not. In a typical artificial NN, timing doesn't matter.

What are some basic things a computer scientist should know about the brain? I teach an Intro to AI course, and my slides include one diagram of a biological neuron that inspired the perceptron. But that's it! I'm just learning some of the things we don't teach 🤯 A thread 🧵

Emotions are not irrational intrusions; they are evolved signals that guide decision-making under uncertainty. Consciousness gives us the ability to reflect on them, modulate them, and sometimes override them.

Come and join us listen to @petitegeek’s talk on Multimodal Learning for Interactive Embodied AI! Very cool demos!

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Don’t miss @petitegeek, assistant professor at @SFU_CompSci, sharing their perspective at the panel discussion #WiML at #NeurIPS!