Erik,

I have studied this from a neuroscience perspective.  The anatomy of the
cortex and how its neurons project to motor areas tells a lot about how the
cortex integrates sense and motor behavior.  The two papers below are
typical of the neuroscience literature.  Unfortunately they are difficult to
read if you don't read neuro papers often.  There are many papers on this
topic written from a roboticist's or theorist's perspective.  I don't know
this literature.  Maybe Ian has suggestions for something good to read.  My
talk will be about the cortex and CLA.

 

 <http://jn.physiology.org/content/90/2/539.full.pdf+html>
http://jn.physiology.org/content/90/2/539.full.pdf+html

 

 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657838/>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3657838/

 

Jeff

 

 

From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Erik Blas
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 3:29 PM
To: NuPIC general mailing list.
Subject: Re: [nupic-dev] Fall 2013 NuPIC Hackathon

 

This is a great expansion on the previous hackathon! Thanks, Matt.

 

Jeff, any chance you'd have some articles or papers you'd recommend to get
started on the sensor-motor integration piece? This is the area I'm most
most focusing on with my experimenting, and would appreciate any help in
narrowing the research.

 

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

I've updated the event description:

http://numenta.org/events.html#november_2013_hackathon

Now includes:

**Saturday November 2**

02:00 PM: CLA Deep Dive (Subutai Ahmad)
=================================================================
Subutai Ahmad, Grok/Numenta VP of Engineering, will go into detail
about some of the major components of the CLA, including the Spatial
and Temporal Poolers. This talk will describe the theory behind these
ideas (and others) as well as pointing out the locations within the
NuPIC codebase where they are implemented. If you are interested in
how the CLA within NuPIC works behind the curtains, this is the talk
for you.

04:00 PM: Working Session: NuPIC Documentation for ML/AI Researchers
(Ian Danforth)
=================================================================
Descriptions matter. We'll be creating a document that describes NuPIC
and CLA in terms that are familiar to academic Machine Learning and AI
researchers. This document will become an entry point for academics
into NuPIC. As we walk through CLA, participants will be asked to
contribute how their field would describe each component, and suggest
relevant citations for similar work. Components and performance
characteristics of CLA which are particularly novel will be
highlighted.

**Sunday November 3**

01:00PM: Sensor-Motor Integration in the Neocortex (Jeff Hawkins)
=================================================================
Most of the changes on our senses are due, wholly or in part, to our
own actions. Therefore, the neocortex learns a sensory-motor model of
the world. In this talk I discuss some of what we know about how the
neocortex generates behavior and how we might construct a simple
sensory-motor system based on the Cortical Learning Algorithm. It is a
good starting point for anyone wanting to add motor output to the CLA.
I will assume basic understanding of the CLA.


I will be recording and live-streaming at least the CLA Deep Dive and
Jeff's Sensor-Motor talk.

---------
Matt Taylor
OS Community Flag-Bearer
Numenta

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