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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
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George Church

George Church
Professor, Harvard University

@geochurch

George Church is professor at Harvard and MIT, where he has developed methods used for the first genome sequence in 1994 and genome recoding, leading to million-fold cost reductions. He co-initiated the BRAIN Initiative and Genome Projects to provide and interpret the world’s only open-access personal precision medicine data. He is the coauthor of 450 papers, 95 patent publications, and the book Regenesis.

Sessions

10:05am–10:20am Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Hybrid bio-opto-electronics for AI
Location: Grand Ballroom
George Church (Harvard University)
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The IARPA MICrONS project aims to revolutionize machine learning by reverse-engineering the algorithms of the brain. George Church offers an overview of this work and explains how his team has accelerated in vitro growth of many brain architectures, which might enable us to build new hybrid bio-opto-electronic artificial computational platforms. Read more.