Brain-inspired computation for machine consciousness

On 14 August we are delighted to host Nikola Kasabov in the eighth in our series of Meetups on the subject of artificial consciousness.

Nikola is joining us from New Zealand, which offers interesting challenges with regard to time zones, so this time we are starting at 9pm UK time.

Nikola is one of the world’s leading experts in neuromorphic computing, a branch of computer science which promises more efficient AI. He is professor emeritus of knowledge engineering at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, and the founding director of its Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI). He is also the Director of Knowledgeengineering.ai.

Nikola has evolved connectionist systems (ECOS) and the brain-inspired spiking neural network architecture NeuCube for spatio-temporal data modelling, which provides superior accuracy and explainability on neuroimaging brain data, multisensory and multimodal signal processing, and personalised modelling in neuro- and bioinformatics.