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James Bower

Title: Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience; CEO, Numedeon Inc.

Institution: University of Hertfordshire / Southern Oregon University

Discipline: Neuroscience & Cognition

Appearances: 1

Notable: Co-founded NeurIPS (1987); founding editor of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience; founded Whyville.net educational virtual world (1999); co-directed the Caltech Precollege Science Initiative for 17 years

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Biography

James M. Bower is a computational neuroscientist whose research focuses on the physiological and functional organization of cortical structures in the mammalian brain. He co-founded the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) in 1987, developed the GENESIS neural simulation system, and founded the children's educational virtual world Whyville.net, which has over 8 million registered users worldwide.

Sample Works

The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System (1998) Book
20 Years of Computational Neuroscience (editor) (2013) Book
Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research (1998) Book
The Emergence of Community Models in Computational Neuroscience: The 40-Year History of the Cerebellar Purkinje Cell (2013) Paper

Roundtable Appearances

April 13, 2024 · ▶ Video

Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility

The roundtable examines olfaction as the first remote sense, exploring how smell creates "a series of pathways laid out on gradients" that orient organisms toward meaningful...

History & Culture

Clare Batty, James Bower, Andreas Keller, John McGann, Dmitry Rinberg, Mark Smith

Podcast (1:48:23)

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