Sebastian Seung, the Glossary

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1. 64 relations: Alzheimer's disease, Aristotle, Artificial intelligence, Autism, Bell Labs, Big data, Bioinformatics, Caenorhabditis elegans, Carl Sagan, Citizen science, Classical XY model, Computational neuroscience, Computer vision, Connectome, Connectome (book), Connectomics, Cosmos (Sagan book), Critical phenomena, Data science, David Robert Nelson, David W. Tank, Doctor of Philosophy, Eyewire, Genome, Graph (discrete mathematics), Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hermaphrodite, High-temperature superconductivity, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Human Connectome Project, Human Genome Project, Human-based computation, Ising model, Jeff Bezos, Juilliard School, KT Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Planck Society, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Monte Carlo method, Neural network, Neuroscience, Non-negative matrix factorization, Parkinson's disease, Phase transition, Physics, Princeton University, Renormalization group, Richard Axel, ... Expand index (14 more) »

2. Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering

Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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Autism

Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.

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Bell Labs

Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others.

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Big data

Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data-processing application software.

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Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.

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Caenorhabditis elegans

Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments.

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Carl Sagan

Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.

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Citizen science

Citizen science (similar to community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, participatory monitoring, or volunteer monitoring) is research conducted with participation from the general public, or amateur/nonprofessional researchers or participants for science, social science and many other disciplines.

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Classical XY model

The classical XY model (sometimes also called classical rotor (rotator) model or O(2) model) is a lattice model of statistical mechanics.

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Computational neuroscience

Computational neuroscience (also known as theoretical neuroscience or mathematical neuroscience) is a branch of neuroscience which employs mathematics, computer science, theoretical analysis and abstractions of the brain to understand the principles that govern the development, structure, physiology and cognitive abilities of the nervous system.

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Computer vision

Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the forms of decisions.

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Connectome

A connectome is a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, and may be thought of as its "wiring diagram".

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Connectome (book)

Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are (2012) is a book by Sebastian Seung.

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Connectomics

Connectomics is the production and study of connectomes: comprehensive maps of connections within an organism's nervous system.

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Cosmos (Sagan book)

Cosmos is a popular science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan.

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Critical phenomena

In physics, critical phenomena is the collective name associated with the physics of critical points.

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Data science

Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processes, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from potentially noisy, structured, or unstructured data.

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David Robert Nelson

David R. Nelson (born May 9, 1951) is an American physicist, and Arthur K. Solomon Professor of Biophysics, at Harvard University.

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David W. Tank

David W. Tank is an American molecular biologist and neuroscientist who is the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Eyewire

Eyewire is a citizen science game from Sebastian Seung's Lab at Princeton University.

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Genome

In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism.

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Graph (discrete mathematics)

In discrete mathematics, particularly in graph theory, a graph is a structure consisting of a set of objects where some pairs of the objects are in some sense "related".

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Hermaphrodite

A hermaphrodite is a sexually reproducing organism that produces both male and female gametes.

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High-temperature superconductivity

High-temperature superconductors (high-c or HTS) are defined as materials with critical temperature (the temperature below which the material behaves as a superconductor) above, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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Human Connectome Project

The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is a five-year project sponsored by sixteen components of the National Institutes of Health, split between two consortia of research institutions.

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Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint.

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Human-based computation

Human-based computation (HBC), human-assisted computation, ubiquitous human computing or distributed thinking (by analogy to distributed computing) is a computer science technique in which a machine performs its function by outsourcing certain steps to humans, usually as microwork.

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Ising model

The Ising model (or Lenz–Ising model), named after the physicists Ernst Ising and Wilhelm Lenz, is a mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (and Robinson (2010), p. 7.; born January 12, 1964) is an American business magnate best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

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Juilliard School

The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in New York City.

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KT Corporation

KT Corporation (Hangul: 주식회사 케이티), formerly Korea Telecom, is a South Korean telecommunications company.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Max Planck Society

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e. V.; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes.

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MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, engages in fundamental research in the areas of brain and neural systems, and cognitive processes.

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Monte Carlo method

Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results.

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Neural network

A neural network is a group of interconnected units called neurons that send signals to one another.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders.

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Non-negative matrix factorization

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF or NNMF), also non-negative matrix approximation is a group of algorithms in multivariate analysis and linear algebra where a matrix is factorized into (usually) two matrices and, with the property that all three matrices have no negative elements.

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Parkinson's disease

Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.

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Phase transition

In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.

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Physics

Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Renormalization group

In theoretical physics, the term renormalization group (RG) refers to a formal apparatus that allows systematic investigation of the changes of a physical system as viewed at different scales.

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Richard Axel

Richard Axel (born July 2, 1946) is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Sebastian Seung and Richard Axel are Howard Hughes Medical Investigators.

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Samsung

Samsung Group (stylised as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Digital City, Suwon, South Korea.

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Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.

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Semantic analysis (linguistics)

In linguistics, semantic analysis is the process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of words, phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings.

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Sloan Research Fellowship

The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars".

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Social computing is an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems.

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Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra.

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Statistical mechanics

In physics, statistical mechanics is a mathematical framework that applies statistical methods and probability theory to large assemblies of microscopic entities.

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T. K. Seung

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TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Visual learning

Visual learning is a learning style among the learning styles of Neil Fleming's VARK model in which information is presented to a learner in a visual format.

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Vorticity

In continuum mechanics, vorticity is a pseudovector (or axial vector) field that describes the local spinning motion of a continuum near some point (the tendency of something to rotate), as would be seen by an observer located at that point and traveling along with the flow.

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Winfried Denk

Winfried Denk (born November 12, 1957, in Munich) is a German physicist.

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See also

Recipients of the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering

• Hyeon Taeghwan
• Kang G. Shin
• Luke Pyungse Lee
• Nam-Gyu Park
• Sebastian Seung
• Suh Nam-pyo
• Thomas H. Lee (electronic engineer)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Seung

Also known as H S Seung, Hyunjune Sebastian Seung.

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