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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.

Live-streamed CCC BRAIN Workshop

November 24th, 2014 / in CCC, policy, videos, workshop reports / by Helen Wright

Computer science and brain science share dee Screen Shot 2014-11-24 at 1.59.32 PM p intellectual roots. Today, understanding the structure and function of the human brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges of our generation. Decades of study and continued progress in our knowledge of neural function and brain architecture have led to important advances in brain science, but a comprehensive understanding of the brain still lies well beyond the horizon. How might computer science and brain science benefit from one another?

The CCC BRAIN two-day workshop, sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and National Science Foundation (NSF), brings together brain researchers and computer scientists for a scientific dialogue aimed at exposing new opportunities for joint research between the two fields.

Organized around four keynote plenary addresses by Jack Gallant, Aude Oliva, Terrence Sejnowski, and Leslie Valiant. The visionary plenary addresses will be live-streamed at: http://www.cra.org/ccc/visioning/visioning-activities/brain.

Join the conversation at #cccbrain! For more information, see the workshop website.