Kenneth Miller

Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology and Director, Center for Theoretical Biology, Columbia University

Kenneth Miller is the Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, co-Director of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and co-Director of the Neurobiology and Behavior Graduate Program at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Reed College, his M.S. and Ph.D. (with distinction) from Stanford University, and completed his postdoctoral work at UCSF and Caltech. He is a founding member of the editorial board of Journal of Computational Neuroscience and has served as faculty for many years at various summer schools in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. He received the Swartz Prize in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience given by the Society for Neuroscience, and has also been recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Searle Scholar’s Award, and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.

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Feb 22nd
2014
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Biology of Mind

What is mind? Is it a property attributable to biological functionality alone, and, in particular, arising from the morphology of the mammalian brain and/or the influence of that animal’s body? How far down the evolutionary scale can we apply terms like cognition, consciousness, and intelligence? Are we capable of engineering artificial minds?  
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Jan 19th
2019
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Math models Mind

If a biologist were asked for a single word that would appropriately point to the essence and substance of biology, the word might be Life. It stands for the essential unity of that subject despite the enormous range of different interests of biologists—from proteins to the behavior of elephants to medical applications. Is there an... read more! »