Hi everyone, I have been interested in biologically inspired artificial intelligence since 2005 when I was applying to PhD programs. Most of the programs I applied to were in neuroengineering and in order to prepare for work in this field I took an introductory class in neuroscience at Cal State, Sacremento where I learned to dissect sheep brains, prepare and stain slices of rat brains and perform patch clamp experiments on cray fish tails. I got an excellent offer to work in this field from Georgia Tech, but I ended up at Arizona State for my PhD because at the time I was engaged to a woman that did not want to move to Georgia. At ASU I worked on organic semiconductors and would have continued to do so except that 4 years into my PhD, at the age of 35, I was diagnosed with leukemia. This convinced me that working in a chemistry lab with a bunch of carcinogens is not a great life plan for me. The last several years have been interesting to say the least, but the good news is I survived, which makes twice for me as I was previously diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma when I was 14 years old. I just wrapped up my PhD this spring and spent the summer working with NuPIC as part of the season of NuPIC. I worked on a toolkit for applying NuPIC to visual problems. You can find this code on github under baroobob/nupic.vision. Hopefully it will find its way to Numenta's family of repositories. I've also been applying for postdocs in computational neuroscience this summer in the hopes of learning much more about how the brain works. If I don't find a suitable position in this field then entrepreneurship here I come. I've been harboring entrepreneurial ambitions for a decade and it's time to let them loose.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Seyyed Mohammad mohammadzadeh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm S. Mohammad M. Ziabary I've studied AI at Amir Kabir university of > technology, Tehran, Iran. My final thesis was about a machine translation > system based on HTM which introduced HLMT (Human Like Machine Translation) > as final product > > > 2014-08-31 6:03 GMT+04:30 tatuya karino <[email protected]>: > >> Hi all. >> >> It's my first time to send an email to online communities. >> >> I'm an engineer, and I'm interested in machine intelligence. >> I research and develop it personally on most of all holidays. >> When I read "On intelligence" and white paper, ( thank you for translation >> in Japanese :) ), >> I think it's very interesting and I hope to be able to contribute >> something. >> Now I'm making some examples. I'll ask some questions. >> >> Best regards >> >> >> 2014-08-29 23:55 GMT+09:00 Matthew Taylor <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Hello NuPIC, >>> >>> Thanks for your patience during this very annoying mailing list >>> situation. It seems that the dust has settled after migrating to our >>> own virtual private server, and the lists are back to 100% >>> functionality. >>> >>> ... But that's not good enough for me! I think we should STRESS-TEST >>> our mailing lists' new home. So here is the plan: I've sent this >>> message to each of our four mailing lists. Please reply to this >>> message with a short SELF-INTRODUCTION! I'm especially interested in >>> hearing from LURKERs who've been reading the lists but never posted. >>> Let us know you exist, even if it's just a short "hello world!". If >>> you are an established poster that everyone knows, perhaps you should >>> share something interesting or unique about yourself that no one on >>> the list knows. >>> >>> Here's mine: >>> >>> I spent over four years in the US Air Force working as an intelligence >>> analyst. I worked to support the B-2 Stealth program, and I trained >>> pilots about air defense systems, so I know a lot about surface-to-air >>> missiles. After leaving the Air Force, I worked as a defense >>> contractor, where I really got into programming mostly in fortran77 >>> and shell scripts. I had to convince my coworkers to use Java!! Can >>> you believe that? Anyway, I realized I wanted to dedicate my career to >>> software development instead of supporting combat operations, so I >>> left to build code, and I ended up here at Numenta. >>> >>> Your turn! >>> >>> --------- >>> Matt Taylor >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer >>> Numenta >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Tatsuya Karino > > > > > -- > Best Regards. > S.M. Mohammadzadeh > Web: www.mohammadzadeh.info > Blog: blog.mohammadzadeh.info > > * softnhard ==> software and hardware expert -- James Bridgewater, PhD Arizona State University 480-227-9592
