MArbib

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Michael Arbib is Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, as well as University Professor and a Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), which he joined in September of 1986. Born in England in 1940, Arbib grew up in Australia (with a B.Sc.(Hons.) in Pure Mathematics from Sydney University), and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1963. After five years at Stanford, he became chairman of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970, and remained in that Department until his move to USC in 1986. His current research focuses on mechanisms underlying the coordination of perception and action, on neuroinformatics, and on the analysis of the brain's architecture to gain new inspirations for computing technology. He is now using his insights into the monkey brain to develop a new theory of the evolution of human language. Arbib is the author or editor of 36 books. Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics (The MIT Press, 1998), co-authored with Peter Érdi and the late John Szentágothai, provides a comprehensive view of the working of the brain. His edited volume, The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (Second Edition, The MIT Press, 2003) is a massive compendium embracing studies in detailed neuronal function, system models of brain regions, connectionist models of psychology and linguistics, mathematical and biological studies of learning, and computational approaches to cognitive neuroscience.

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http://www.usc.edu/programs/neuroscience/faculty/profile.php?fid=16

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