DoC Professor appears in two World Science Festival published events.

A professor of cognitive robotics here in DoC is featured in two events at the World Science Festival discussing the brain and its architecture.

Professor Murray Shannhan an expert on cognitive robotics here in the Department of Computing  joined leading neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, biologists, and computer scientists at the World Science Festival to discuss the colossal challenges that must be overcome to understand, record and analyze what it will take to understand the human brain.

The World Science Festival is an annual event run by the Science Festival Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in New York City, whose mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.

The first discussion called "Architects of the Mind: A Blueprint for the Human Brain" formed part of the Big Ideas Series. Its participants were Neurologist and Author R. Douglas Fields, leading neuroscientist Professor Kristen Harris,  Gregory Wheeler an American logician, philosopher, and computer scientist and Murray Shanhan a professor of cognitive robotics here in the Department of Computing.

The second discussion was called "Mapping the Brain: A Grand Challenge"  focussed  on the colossal challenges that must be overcome to understand, record, and analyze our neural sytems. The participants of this discussion were, Gary Marcus professor of psychology and director of the NYU Center for Child Language, Miyoung Chun vice president of science programs at The Kavli Foundation in Oxnard, California, George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, R. Douglas Fields  a developmental neurobiologist, Kristen Harris professor of neuroscience at Harvard, Boston University, Christof Koch a Neuroscientist, Philip Rubin  principal assistant director for science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Rafael Yuste  professor of biological sciences and neuroscience at Columbia University and last but not least our very own Professor Murray Shannahan.