CSE 590NC: Neural Computation


Welcome to CSE 590NC (seminar on Neural Computation)! The plan is to discuss one or more papers per week, diverging as necessary into detail on topics that are of particular interest to seminar attendees.

We meet on Tuesdays from 1:30 to 2:50 PM in MGH 278.

What is the seminar all about? This quarter we will concentrate on topics in sensorimotor learning and control. Specifically we'll focus on robotics, vision, and statistical methods for learning by imitation, as well as how to close the "perception-action loop" between agents engaged in imitation tasks and their environments.

There is a list of presentations with links to appropriate papers and background reading. A preliminary list of the broad subject areas that we could pick papers from: Papers from other related subject areas may also be picked if there is sufficient interest in the class.

Mailing List: Be sure to join the class mailing list and browse the email archive. To join, send a message to majordomo@cs.washington.edu, and include the following in the body of your message: subscribe cse590nc
You should get a response quickly that you have been added.

Online resources: Tutorials, on-line conference proceedings (NIPS) and journals.

Credit Hours: 1
Grading: Credit/No Credit (enrolled students are expected to present one or more papers and participate in class discussions)


Previous quarters of 590NC: Autumn 2001 (Topics in neural networks) Winter 2002 (Statistical frameworks for state estimation)
Comments to: Raj Rao or Aaron Shon
The background image is from http://clasdean.la.asu.edu/news/images/ubep2001/neuron3.jpg and displays an isolated neuron from rat thalamus. This structure is the "gateway" from lower-level brain regions, such as the retina, to the neocortex.