Michael A. Arbib

Michael A. Arbib ( born 1940 in England) is an English neuroscientists, computer scientists and mathematicians.

Life

Arbib grew up in Australia and studied mathematics at the University of Sydney (Bachelor 1960), and in 1963 at MIT in Henry McKean doctoral thesis on stochastic processes ( Hitting and martingale Characterisations of One -Dimensional Diffusion ). He then spent five years at Stanford University, and from 1970 to 1986 chairman of the department of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Then he was at the University of Southern California (USC ), where he is currently Fletcher Jones Professor of computer science (as well as biology, neuroscience, electrical engineering, psychology, etc.) and director of the USC Brain Project.

Arbib is known for an early interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience computer science since the 1960s, when there was this discipline only in its infancy. An early influence were present book Cybernetics Norbert Wiener and the classic works of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. He sees in the brain something fundamentally different than a computer and examines the similarities and differences with both abstract mathematical methods as well as detailed investigation of neural networks. In particular, he examines the interaction of motor and perceptual -related functional units ( " Schemes" ). His program, he laid in his book, Brains, Machines and Mathematics by 1964 ( based on lectures at the University of New South Wales) dar.

Works

  • Brains, Machines and Mathematics, McGraw Hill 1964, 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 0-387-96539-4
  • Beyond the Mirror: Biology and Culture in the Evolution of Brain and Language, 2005, ISBN 0-19-514993-9
  • The Metaphorical Brain - an introduction to cybernetics as artificial intelligence and brain theory, Wiley Interscience 1972
  • The Metaphorical Brain Vol.2 - Neural networks and beyond, Wiley Interscience, 1989
  • Publisher: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd Edition, MIT Press 2002
  • Editor with Jeffrey Grethe Computing the Brain: A Guide to Neuroinformatics 2001
  • With Alfredo Weitz field, Amanda Alexander: The neural simulation language: a system for brain modeling, MIT Press 2002
  • With Peter Erdi, Janos (John) Szentagothai: Neural Organization: Structure, Function, and Dynamics, MIT Press 1997
  • With John Szentagothai: Conceptual models of neural organization, MIT Press 1975
  • Other: From Schema Theory to Language
  • By Mary B. Hesse: The Construction of Reality, Cambridge Studies in Philosophy 1986 ( Gifford Lectures, University of Edinburgh)
  • In Search of the Person: Philosophical Explorations in Cognitive Science 1985
  • Computers and the Cybernetic Society, Academic Press 1984
  • With Kfoury, Moll: A Basis for Theoretical Computer Science, Springer 1981
  • Arrows, Structures, and functors: The Categorical Imperative
  • Theories of abstract automata, Prentice Hall
  • Algebraic Theory of Machines, Languages ​​and Semi Groups 1968
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