Carnegie Mellon University will be hosting a competition pitting grad student teams against each other as they analyze one of several neuroscience-related datasets:
Carnegie Mellon University's BrainHub will host its first Neurohackathon, sponsored by Qualcomm, May 24-25. The event is one of the first hackathons to engage computer scientists in using one of the hardest systems to crack: the structure of neural data and the brain.
[...] During the hackathon, graduate [students] will be given data sets gathered from the labs of neuroscience researchers in the College of Engineering, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mellon College of Science and School of Computer Science and asked to develop solutions for analyzing the data. Datasets include:
- Human brain neuroanatomy from MRI images
- How is running represented in the mouse cortex
- Epigenetic regulation of genome function and brain disease
- Cell-type identification through electrophysiological fingerprinting
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @05:24PM
As soon as egghead neuroscientists crack the code of the human brain, elite rockstar coderz can apply a patch to make everyone think alike. When all people are equally subservient, there will be no more war, no more racism, no more trolling, no more need for social justice. It will be glorious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 26 2016, @12:24PM
Hackathon? 42 kilometers of hacking? What's next, Hack-gate?
Buh... I'm too old for this shit