This volume offers an up-to-date overview of essential concepts and modern approaches to computational modelling, including the use of experimental techniques related to or directly inspired by them. The book introduces, at increasing levels of complexity and with the non-specialist in mind, state-of-the-art topics ranging from single-cell and molecular descriptions to circuits and networks. Four
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The DBI2 proposal has been awarded a total funding of 21.9 million euros to conduct 10-year-long scientific research in brain-machine interfaces, as part of the Gravitation program. The mission of DBI2 is the fostering of a novel, integrated approach to brain-machine interfaces in which the Neurocomputing Lab is taking as part on the behalf of the
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Our recently awarded ArborIO project has officially made us a partner of the Human Brain Project initiative. The official start of the ArborIO took place Tuesday the 16th of February. The project involves partners in Switzerland (CSCS), Italy (University of Pavia / Trieste), and is concerned with producing a human scale model of the olivocerebellar
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Starting September 1st, 2020, the NCL was selected for Private-Preview access to the Graphcore IPU technology via Dell and, ultimately, Microsoft on the Azure Cloud. This is an excellent opportunity to (a) test-drive the Graphcore technology on behalf of the whole Erasmus MC along with a few other labs; (b) rehash existing experimental platforms currently
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ArborIO is a new project that will work on an Arbor Implementation of the Inferior Olive Network. Coordinated by the Neurocomputing Lab in Erasmus Medical Center, Neuroscience Dept. For this project NCL will partner with the University of Pavia, Dept. of Cognitive and Brain Sciences (UNIPV). The HBP has awarded about 560k euros for the
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During the annual Delft Health Initiative contest for the best research idea, dr. Christos Strydis won 3rd place with his project proposal: “Ensemble, Closed-Loop, Epilepsy-Prevention System (ECLEPSys)”, along with a 10k-Euro award to kickstart the project. Based on a significant body of research already conducted within the Neuroscience Dept. on epilepsy, ECLEPSys advocates the use
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The accel-store is a consolidation of all HPC kernels and applications used within the VINEYARD project.The repository from VINEYARD aims to foster the utilization of FPGAs in the data centers for acceleration of cloud computing by providing ready-to-use IP cores. The VINEYARD repository is open to any academic institute that wishes to provide IP cores for
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