Matthew Cook

Email:	cook@ini.phys.ethz.ch
Work phone:	41 44 635 3097
Home page:	http://co2.ini.uzh.ch

Cortical Computation

How does thinking work? How does the cortex compute? This is one of today's greatest mysteries in science. We do not yet know how to make machines do computations similar to the computations done with ease by animal brains. By experimenting with cortically inspired architectures, we hope to gain an understanding of how such computation can occur. One of our current directions is examining models similar to belief propagation on factor graphs, and how such models can be adapted to naturally solve learning and control problems of the sort that brains solve naturally.

Teaching

INI-401 Introduction to Neuroinformatics

INI-425 Block: Computational Neuroscience

INI-427 Models of Computation

Publications

2011

Cook, M. and Jug, F. and Krautz, C. Neuronal projections can be sharpened by a biologically plausible learning mechanism, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning-ICANN 2011 101-108, 2011
Zubler, F and Hauri, A and Pfister, S and Whatley, AM and Cook, M and Douglas, R An instruction language for self-construction in the context of neural networks, Frontiers in Computer Neuroscience, 5:(57), 2011

2010

Neftci, Emre and Chicca, Elisabetta and Cook, Matthew and Douglas, Rodney State-Dependent Sensory Processing in Networks of VLSI Spiking Neurons, Iscas proceedings 2010, 2010

2009

Conradt, J. and Berner, R. and Cook, M. and Delbruck, T. An Embedded AER Dynamic Vision Sensor for Low-Latency Pole Balancing, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Computer Vision (ECV09), Kyoto, Japan, 2009
Conradt, J and Cook, M and Berner, R and Lichtsteiner, P and Douglas, RJ and Delbruck , T A Pencil Balancing Robot using a Pair of AER Dynamic Vision Sensors, International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 781-785, 2009
Cook, M and Jug, F and Krautz, C Sharpening Projections, BMC Neuroscience, 10: (Suppl 1):P214, 2009
Cook, Matthew Book review: Probabilistic reasoning and decision making in sensory-motor systems, Neuromorphic Engineer, 2009
Cook, Matthew and Soloveichik, David and Winfree, Erik and Bruck, Jehoshua Programmability of Chemical Reaction Networks, Algorithmic Bioprocesses 543-584, 2009

2008

Conradt, J and Lichtsteiner, P and Berner, R and Delbruck, T and Douglas, RJ and Cook, M A Pencil Balancing Robot Using Only Spike-based Visual Input., Neural Information Processing Systems, 2008
Cook, M. The Reusable Symbol Problem, NeSy08: 4th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning, 2008
Soloveichik, D. and Cook, M. and Winfree, E. Combining self-healing and proofreading in self-assembly, Natural Computing, 7:(2) 203-218, 2008
Soloveichik, D. and Cook, M. and Winfree, E. and Bruck, J. Computation with finite stochastic chemical reaction networks, Natural Computing, 7:(4) 615-633, 2008

2006

Jiang, A. and Cook, M. and Bruck, J. Optimal Interleaving on Tori, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 20:(4) 841-879, 2006