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Purdue professor in India is part of team unraveling how the brain works, with applications to computing
September 28, 2015
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University professor Anand Raghunathan is spending the year at a new brain research center in India to explore the interface between neuroscience and engineering to learn more about how the brain works, and how this knowledge can be applied to improve computer systems. The findings could help drive technological advances and the creation of new engineering tools to study the brain.
In 2011, "Watson," an artificially intelligent computer system, made headlines when it won the American TV game show "Jeopardy." "While that was an amazing achievement, what many people didn't realize is that behind Watson was a cluster of computer servers, which probably consumed over 20,000 watts," Raghunathan said. "The human brain consumes around 20 watts, and can perform several complex tasks; such efficiency has so far proven elusive to replicate in computers."
Raghunathan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, is one of three visiting distinguished chairs in the Center for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He is working with neuros
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In 1977, Hans-Lukas Teuber disappeared while swimming off Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands, a shock to the department, and indeed the entire community. Richard Held succeeded him as department head. In the mid-80s Held began working with Provost John Deutch and Institute leadership on an effort to combine the Department of Psychology with neuroscience-related elements of the Whitaker College of Health Sciences, Technology, and Management to create a new department. As Held wrote in the 1985-86 Report to the President:
The major development of the year is the amalgamation of this department into a new and larger department called Brain and Cognitive Sciences beginning July 1, 1986. The new grouping will encompass disciplines, with appropriate faculty, ranging from neurobiology to cognitive science. It will be centered in Whitaker College and headed by the current Director of Whitaker, Professor Emilio Bizzi. The new and larger department will maintain and extend the activities of the pre-existing groups. Their interactions will vigorously enhance the effort to advance the frontiers of knowledge in both the brain and cognitive sciences and to develop the terra incognita between them. A timely grant of $5 million from the Fairchild Found