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		The Australian National University

	     CENTRE FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE RESEARCH

PUBLIC LECTURE

THE EYE AND THE HAND:  DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING IN THE MONKEY BRAIN

		   Professor Michael A. Arbib
		University of Southern California

Thursday 11 February 1993
8:00 PM
Leonard Huxley Lecture Theatre
Mills Road, ANU

Michael Arbib is one of the world's most distinugished neuro
scientists.  He is a professor in six different departments at the
University of Southern California - the Departments of Computer
Science, Neurobiology, Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering and Psychology.  He is the founder and first Director of
USC's Center for Neural Engineering.  He has also played a leading role
in developing the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience components
of USC's interdepartmental program in Neural, Informational and
Behavioral Sciences (NIBS).  He is the author, co-author or editor of
around 20 books.  He is visiting ANU in connection with the 1993
Robertson Symposium "Sensory Stratagems".

In his lecture Professor Arbib will provide a general overview of
recent research bringing together studies of human and monkey behavior,
neurological observations, monkey neurophysiology and the development
of multi-level computational models combining schema models of
distributed computation with models of reinforcement learning in neural
networks.  The talk will be at the Scientific American level, designed
to introduce the basic concepts to a general audience.


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