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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Mind in Vitro — Computing with living neurons
DTSTART:20250311T120000
DTEND:20250311T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mattia Gazzola\, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Bi
 ology\, Mechanical Science & Engineering\, University of Illinois Urbana
 -Champaign\nAbstract:  Can computing systems be built out of living neur
 ons? Can they achieve basic hallmarks of cognition such as learning\, atte
 ntion\, curiosity\, or creativity\, so pervasive in biology yet elusive in
  modern computing? In the Mind in Vitro Expedition we imagine computers an
 d robots that are human-designed but living. That can be programmed\, but 
 whose behaviors are not specified\, and instead\, emerge. These systems wi
 ll grow\, heal\, learn and explore. In this talk\, I will discuss our visi
 on\, progress\, successes\, and challenges.\n\n\nBiography: Mattia Gazzol
 a is the Charles Conrad Kritzer Associate Professor in the Mechanical Scie
 nce and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champa
 ign. He joined UIUC in Fall 2016 after a postdoc at Harvard and a PhD at E
 TH Zurich. His work lies at the interface between mechanics\, biology\, ro
 botics\, and computing. His studies were awarded with the ETH Medal\, Earl
 y and Advanced Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowships\, NSF CAREER\
 , and featured on the cover of several scientific journals including Scien
 ce\, Nature\, PNAS\, PRL. He is the Lead PI and co-director of the center-
 scale NSF Expedition "Mind in Vitro–Computing with Living Neurons".
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/64267570786
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