Draft:Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit


Sainsbury Wellcome Centre building, which hosts the SWC and the Gatsby Unit.

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (also called simply the Gatsby Unit for short) is an academic research organization within University College London. The unit is located in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (SWC) in Fitzrovia, in central London. It is supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation[1] and is closely associated with the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre[2]. Researchers at the Gatsby Unit study theoretical neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial Intelligence research company DeepMind was founded at the Gatsby Unit[3]


History

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The Gatsby Unit was founded in 1998[4] by Peter Dayan[5], Li Zhaoping[6], and Geoffrey Hinton[7][8]. Founding director Geoffrey Hinton is a Turing Award winner (2018) and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (2024).

Research at the Gastby Unit

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Research at the Gatsby Unit encompasses theoretical and computational neuroscience, computational statistics, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. These research threads are drawn together by the unit's focus on the mathematical foundations of adaptive intelligent behaviour.[9]

Directors

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Current director:

Past directors and co-directors:[10]

Notable alumni

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Notable former associated faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students:[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Neuroscience | Gatsby". www.gatsby.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  2. ^ "About SWC | Sainsbury Wellcome Centre". www.sainsburywellcome.org. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  3. ^ Rowan, David. "DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  4. ^ UCL (2019-08-30). "Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit Celebrates 21st Anniversary". UCL Division of Biosciences. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  5. ^ "Fellow Detail Page | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  6. ^ "Prof. Dr. Zhaoping Li | Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen". www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  7. ^ "Geoffrey E. Hinton: . Biographical Sketch". www.cs.toronto.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  8. ^ "Geoffrey Hinton | Biography, Education, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
  9. ^ "Gatsby Unit webpage". 15 May 2019. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  10. ^ UCL (2019-10-17). "About". Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
  11. ^ UCL (2020-08-05). "The Greater Gatsby". Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
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