Barak Pearlmutter, PhD

MOVE

The lab has moved to the Hamilton Institute at NUI Maynooth near Dublin Ireland.

Professional

I'm the principal of our Brain and Computation Lab.

Interests

Adaptive systems, neural Networks, how the brain works, machine learning, acoustic source separation and localization, neuroscience, programming language design and implementation. You can view a short demo page.

Employment

I am now a professor in the Hamilton Institute at NUI Maynooth in Co. Kildare, Ireland, with a primary appointment in the Department of Computer Science.

I was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, with adjunct appointments in the Department of Neurosciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Publications

The communal memory of science.

Teaching

Present

Spring 2012: CS431: Special Topics in Computer Science.

Topic: Development of Open Source Software.
Locus: Next meeting is noon, Mon 6-Feb-2012, CSR.
Assignment: make yourself a github account, and learn some git. By next class.
Announcements etc will be via the course moodle page.
The moodle enrollment key is: tsxb424

Alternative Futures That Never Occurred

Anticipated future "special topics" courses: information geometry, source separation, computational aspects of magnetoencephalography, algorithmic differentiation, program specialization aka partial evaluation.

Past

Editing

Editorial board, Neural Computing Surveys. Action editor, Neural Computation. Former associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

Rants and Randomness

Giving away money

I was co-organizer of the Abbadingo One DFA Learning Competition, which ended on Nov 15, 1997. If you are interested in language induction you should have a look. A follow-up continuous competition called Gowachin has been running for some years, and is able to automatically track improvements in the state of the art.

My GPG public key.
Key fingerprint = 3755 EE8A 783F 3493 A8FF 2C8F 2F3E 069E FEC2 3FB2

Art

My ceramic art combines wheel thrown techniques and hand building to play at the ago old tension in pottery between doing something and saying something.

Barak Pearlmutter <barak@cs.nuim.ie>
Hamilton Institute
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Ireland
+353 1 7086394 (work)
+353 1 7086100 (admin)
+353 1 7086269 (fax)
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