David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain - 109 min - Nov 6, 2005
UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services - webcast.berkeley.edu

The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in "What the bleep do we know?;" and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management.

Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting the un-invertible

Hacking the brain by predicting the future and inverting the un-invertible - 53 min - Jan 27, 2006
Google engEDU - www.google.com

Google TechTalks January 27, 2006 William Softky
The brain seems to carry out nearly all its sensory perception using generic, interchangeable modules, each of which learns (from scratch) to represent and process whatever signals it is exposed to. But what does each module actually do? What is the "API" between modules such that they can all learn and work in harmony?

How the brain works, what it computes, and how/when we might build

How the brain works, what it computes, and how/when we might build ... - 120 min - May 9, 2006
IBM Panel - http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml

Lecture 5 of 12 of IBM Research's Almaden Institute Conference on Cognitive Computing. Panel speakers: - James Albus, NIST: Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20James%20Albus.ppt. - Theodore Berger, USC: Discusses how to replace parts of the brain with VLSI computer chips (in the case of bringing functionality back to a region of the brain that was removed due to a tumor). Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20Theodore%20W.%20Berger.ppt. - Kwabena Boahen, Stanford: Presents energy analysis of brains vs. computers. Powerpoint presentation at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/resources/2006/Almaden%20Institute%20Kwabena%20Boahen.ppt. - Ralph Linsker, IBM: Shows demo of separating multiple overlapping voices using a neurally-inspired algorithm.