H. Paul Rockwood Memorial Lectureship

The Rockwood Memorial Lectures are endowed by Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Rockwood in memory of their late son, Paul, who received a B.S. in Computer Science from UCSD in 1980 and then obtained a second degree B.A. in Psychology in 1981. In 1983 he stared a company, Integral Solutions, to develop a universal language translation, but died tragically in a mountaineering accident before he could fulfill his promise. This Lectureship has brought such distinguished lecturers as John Hopfield from the California Institute of Technology, David Rumelhart from Stanford University, James McClelland from Carnegie-Mellon University, and Stephen Grossberg from Boston University.

  • 2009 Lecturer: Josh Bongard
    "Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution and Cognition"
    "Resilient machines"

  • 2008 Lecturer: Jeff Hawkins, Founder, Palm, Inc. Handspring, and Numenta
    "What Should Computer Vision Learn from Neuroscience?"

  • 2007 Lecturer: Tomaso Poggio, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "What Should Computer Vision Learn from Neuroscience?"

  • 2006 Lecturer: Harvey Karten, Department of Neurosciences, UCSD, "Unwiring the Brain: Neuromorphic Engineering of Motion Detection"
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  • 2005 Lecturer: Jeffrey L. Elman, University of California San Diego, "Generalizing beyond our experience: Lessons from neural networks"

  • 2004 Lecturer: Richard Gregory, University of Bristol, "A Periodic Table for Perception"

  • 2003 Lecturer: Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc., "A New Kind Of Science"

  • 2002 Lecturer: Pasko Rakic, Yale University, "Building the Cerebral Cortex: From Stem Cells to Complex Architecture"

  • 2001 Lecturer: Michael Dickinson, UC Berkeley, "How Fruit Flies flap for Flight Forces: Neuro-Mechanics of a Complex Behavior"

  • 2000 Lecturer: Christoph von der Malsburg, Bochum University and University of Southern California, "The Learning Problem"

  • 1999 Lecturer: Dana Ballard, University of Rochester, "Single-Spike Models of Predictive Coding"

  • 1998 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, "Finding Structure in Ensembles of Images"

  • 1997 Lecturer: Michael Jordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Graphic Models, Neural Networks, and Variational Methods"

  • 1996 Lecturer: Jack Cowan, University of Chicago, "Geometric Visual Hallucinations, Migraine Auras, and Visual Illusions: What They Tell Us About Visual Cortex Circuitry"

  • 1995 Lecturer: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, "Neural Networks that Learn by Generating Fantasies"

  • 1994 Lecturer: Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, "Neural Networks for Learning, Recognition, and Recall"

  • 1993 Lecturer: James L. McClelland, Carnegie-Mellon University, "The Interaction of Nature and Nurture in Development: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective"