Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds has released a 1-hour podcast in which Waseem Akhtar and Robin Hiesinger discuss the motivation and thesis of ‘The Self-Assembling Brain’. This is a wide-ranging discussion, starting with the history of neurobiologists arguing about the existence of neurons as physiological units that need to ‘wire up’, to the question: How does information…
The Royal Institution hosted a one and a half hour live lecture and discussion on The Self-Assembling Brain and the cross-talk of biological and artificial neural network research. Thanks to 800 participants for signing up, watching it live or over the next week via the Royal Institution video link. The lecture is online since July 2 on Youtube. Thanks for…
On July 3, 2021 the Berlin newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’ published a short interview with the AI researcher Christoph Benzmüller and Peter Robin Hiesinger about biological and artificial intelligence. On July 20, the Free University of Berlin has also published an English translation.
One month after the May 4 release in the US, The Self-Assembling Brain has just been released in the UK and Europe! Thanks to a wonderful review in the journal Science, and a very well-attended lecture and discussion at the Royal Institution, The Self-Assembling Brain has hit it off well on the Amazon bestseller lists in the US, UK and…
The Royal Institution will host Peter Robin Hiesinger for a lecture and discussion of The Self-Assembling Brain on June 8 at 7pm UK time (11am US West Coast, 2pm US East Coast, 8pm in Central Europe). More information and tickets available here.
Peter Robin Hiesinger has been selected for the highest grant award for established scientists in the European Union. According the the European Research Commission (ERC), Advanced Grants are awarded to exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions. The 2020 competition was particularly fierce, with a success rate of less than 8%. The question of synaptic…
The Self-Assembling Brain is scheduled to be published in the US on May 4th and in the UK and Europe on June 8th. The book is available for pre-order now at Princeton University Press with a 30% discount! Follow the link, or click the button below, and use the discount code BRAIN at the Princeton University Press checkout. We also…