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From: Aditya <Aditya.Gilra@cwi.nl>
To: ml_ned <machine-learning-nederland@list.uva.nl>
Date: Monday, 15 January 2024 12:06 PM CET
Subject: Talk by Herbert Jaeger (UniGroningen) 25 Jan 11-12 @ CWI, Amsterdam


Dear all,
(please feel free to forward)

We have a talk by Prof Herbert Jaeger (https://www.ai.rug.nl/minds/herbert/) from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen:
Date: 25 Jan 2024
Time: 11 AM to 12 PM
Location: L016, CWI, Amsterdam

Title: "It has taken 2350 years to understand symbolic-logical computing.
Next step: understanding brains and stuff"

Abstract: For digital computing we possess a formal theory foundation
that deeply roots in Western philosophical history, is mathematically
transparent, has been worked out and stabilized and codified into a
standart textbook format, and obviously has changed the world through
digital computers. For information processing in neuromorphic
microchips, or in other new and to-be-found hardware substrates based on
unconventional physical effects, or in biological brains or other
natural systems, we do not have anything like a unifying formal theory
foundation. But we need it, and it should not only be academically
acceptable but really practically useful. In my talk I will draw a quick
overall picture of this situation, and then present my own approach
toward formulating such a general formal theory for information
processing in non-digital, non-symbolic dynamical systems.

Best,
Aditya.