I’m a senior researcher (DR) in computational cognitive neuroscience at Inria and the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases (Bordeaux, France). I’m investigating decision making, learning and cognition using computational models of the brain and distributed, numerical and adaptive computing, a.k.a. artificial neural networks and machine learning. My research aims to irrigate the fields of philosophy with regard to the mind-body problem, medicine to account for the normal and pathological functioning of the brain and the digital sciences to offer alternative computing paradigms.
Beside neuroscience and philosophy, I’m also interested in open and reproducible science (I’ve co-founded ReScience C with Konrad Hinsen and wrote the article Transforming Code into Scientific Contribution), scientific visualization (I’ve created glumpy, co-created VisPy and authored the popular Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures article), Science outreach (e.g. The Conversation) and computer graphics (especially digital typography).
Keywords: Neuroscience, Cognition, Enaction, Behavior, Embodiment, Learning, Model, Decision Making, Distributed Computing, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computation, Scientific Visualization, Scientific Modelling, Open Science, Reproducible Science.
A Robust Model of Gated Working Memory (Neural Computation, 2020) In this article we introduce a robust yet simple reservoir model of gated working memory with instantaneous updates. The model is able to store an arbitrary real value at random time over an extended period of time. The dynamics of the model is a line attractor that learns to exploit reentry and a nonlinearity during the training phase using only a few representative values.
A Natural History of Skills (Progress in Neurobiology, 2018) In this review, we propose to re-evaluate the function of the basal ganglia-cortical network in light of the current experimental evidence concerning the anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia-cortical circuits in vertebrates. We briefly review the current theories and show that they could be encompassed in a broader framework of skill learning and performance.
A Computational Model of Dual Competition (eNeuro, 2018) We propose a model that includes interactions between the cortex, the basal ganglia and the thalamus based on a dual competition that endows the model with two regimes. One is driven by reinforcement learning and the other by Hebbian learning. The final decision is made according to a combination of these two mechanisms with a gradual transfer from the former to the latter.
Sustainable Computational Science (PeerJ, 2017) Computer science offers a large set of tools for prototyping, writing, running, testing, validating, sharing and reproducing results; however, computational science lags behind. In the best case, authors may provide their source code as a compressed archive and they may feel confident their research is reproducible. But this is not exactly true.
A Neural Field Model of the Somatosensory Cortex (PLOS One, 2012) We investigated the formation and maintenance of ordered topographic maps in the primary somatosensory cortex as well as the reorganization of representations after sensory deprivation or cortical lesion. We hypothesized that feed-forward thalamocortical connections are an adequate site of plasticity while cortico-cortical connections are believed to drive a competitive mechanism that is critical for learning.
Rules Without Symbols (PNAS, 2005) Human cognitive control is uniquely flexible and has been shown to depend on prefrontal cortex (PFC). But exactly how the biological mechanisms of the PFC support flexible cognitive control remains a profound mystery. We show how this can occur when a set of PFC-specific neural mechanisms interact with breadth of experience to self organize abstract rule-like PFC representations that support flexible generalization in novel tasks.
→ See my résumé for full bibliography.
Scientific Visualization — Python & Matplotlib (2021) An open access book on scientific visualization using python and matplotlib. Sources are available on GitHub, the book is open-access and the printed book cost 49$. If you want to support the book, you can tip a few euros.
Towards Reproducible Research (2019) This book takes a current perspective onto a number of potentially dangerous situations and practices, to examplify and highlight the symptoms of non-reproducibility in research. Each time, it provides efficient solutions ranging from good-practices that are easily and immediately implementable to more technical tools, all of which are free and have been put to the test by the authors themselves.
From Python to Numpy(2017) There are a lot of techniques that you don’t find in books and such techniques are mostly learned through experience. The goal of this book is precisely to explain some of these techniques and to provide an opportunity for making this experience in the process.
→ See other books on my résumé.
Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI If you share your home with a dog or a cat, look at it carefully and you will get a good overview of everything we don’t know how to do in artificial intelligence. “But my cat does nothing all day except sleep, eat and wash herself,” you may think. And yet your cat knows how to walk, run, jump (and land on her feet), hear, see, watch, learn, play, hide, be happy, be sad, be afraid, dream, hunt, eat, fight, flee, reproduce, educate her kittens – and the list is still very long…
Silicon soul: The vain dream of electronic immortality If we want to “upload our brain” without going insane, it’s imperative for the uploaded brain to be connected to an artificial body that can perceive the outside world and act on it. But what kind of artificial body do we have today? Robotic bodies where retinas are replaced by cameras and muscles by motors?
Why you’ll never be able to upload your brain If we consider the whole central nervous system, we are facing an average of 86 billion neurons, and each of these neurons contacts an average of 10,000 other neurons, representing a grand total of approximately 860 trillion connections. This is really huge…
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Novembre 28-29, 2024 I’ll give a two days Python advanced course at CNRS (Bordeaux).
Novembre 27, 2024 COFIS meeting in Paris here we decided to organize a much needed workshop about AI and scientific integrity.
November 22 Naomi Chaix-Eichel will defend her PhD thesis, exploring the role of neural network architecture onto decision-making.
Novembre 18, 2024 Participation to the CogGames aiming at rebooting cognitives sciences in France.
Novembre 14-15, 2024 I’ll give a two days Python beginner course at CNRS (Bordeaux).
November 7 Presiding the PhD jury of Eduarda Gervini Zampieri Centeno, netween neuroscience and Open Science.
October 28 First day of the XIHO Autumn school: “Experiment human-machine interaction: theories, methods and analysis”.
October 19 Robotic demonstration in front of town hall in Bordeaux. Quite a challenge to organize but huge success.
October 18 Organization of the Robotics & Ethics conference in Bordeaux, followed by a round table about agro-ecolorgy and robotics
October 17 Mnemosyne out of the lab!
October 10 Quick presentation of the future team at Inria project committee
October 2 Going to Chemnitz.for the Phd defense of Helge Dinkelbach.
September 27, 2024 Interview for the Foresight Institute about AI safety & Neurotechs
September 25, 2024 First meeting of the Bordeaux Theoretical Biology Club where I’ll present the Art of BrainCrafting.
September 21-22, 2024 Big success for Hypermondes scifi festival with more than 10,000 visitors.
September 18, 2024 Last meeting for the national network of experts in Open Science (REISO).
September 11, 2024 I’ll talk about generative AI at the DINHAMIC webinar.
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July 24, 2024 Interview with Charlie Hebdo about generative AIs.
July 25, 2024 Interview with Usbek & Rica about mind uploading.
July 8, 2024 Invited course on scientfic visualization Observatoire Midi-Pyrénèes.
July 3, 2024 I’ll give a talk about Open Science at the Hacking Cognition hackathon
June 27, 2024 Invited by the Club des ambassadeurs onboard the Morgenster
June 25, 2024 Co-organizing the event “Should I stay or should I go?” to talk about free and distributed tools for research, including communication.
June 19, 2024 IMN day, Naomi will present our work on splitter cells.
June 18, 2024 Talk about decision making at the “Rhodia Laboratoire du Futur”, commissioned by the French Neuroscience Society.
June 8, 2024 Our preprint On the epistemic role of hippocampal cells: the case of splitter cells is online.
June 6, 2024 I’ve been given 30 minutes to talk about Open Science and Reproducibility at “Comité des projets”. Quite a challenge.
June 5, 2024 Interview with the Conseil National des Barreaux to talk about AI.
June 4, 2024 Publication of the report Software Pillar of Open Science
June 3, 2024 Welcome to Héloïse Troublé (ENS Rennes) and Pierre Schmittbul (ENS Lyon) who start their intersnhip today.
May 31, 2024 First meeting of the Theoretical Biology Club in Bordeaux.
May 23-24, 2024 Organization of AI & Neurosciences conference with the French society of neurosciences.
May 22, 2024 I’ll animate the round table about AI between science and fiction at Cap Sciences.
May 18, 2024 I’ve signed the letter asking for more transparency to Nature.
May 16, 2024 Happy hour at Cap Sciences where I’ll answer questions around AI.
May 2, 2024 I’ll give a talk at hyperhumain conference about embodied and situated cognition.
April 22, 2024 I’ve been invited by “Ecoles Créatives” to talk about Art and AI (Toulouse).
April 12, 2024 We found a project manager for the French Reproducibility network.
April 4, 2024 Nikolaos Vardalakis will defend his PhD on the effects of entorhinal cortex electrical stimulation on the functional interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
March 26-28, 2024 Second conference for reproducible research in Grenoble
March 25, 2024 First meeting of the OFIS advisory board
March 21, 2024 I’ll give a conference with Natacha Vas-Deyres about AI and Science Fiction for the Comité de la Légion d’Honneur.
March 20, 2024 Attending the event on the future of SIGAPS (HCERES)
March 13, 2024 I’ll attend the epening conference for the Observatoire de la surveillance en démocratie that I’m member of.
March 7, 2024 I’ll be in Poitiers to talk about AI and arts with ALCA Nouvelle Aquitaine (« #IA et #création – Quels défis à venir ? »)
February 22, 2024 I’ve been invited to give a talk on computational reproducibility at the DKM days at Irisa (Rennes)
February 8, 2024 I’ll be at Utopia cinema for talking about robotics and artificial intelligence.
February 6, 2024 My TEDx talk is online
February 3, 2024 Texture mapping (3d) for GSP-matplotlib
January 24, 2024 I’ll give a talk on dataviz at AI4IIndustry.
January 21, 2024 Github update: 6.5k followers — Scientific Visualization book (9.9k★) — From Python to Numpy (2k★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (7.1k★) — 100 Numpy exercises (11k★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.8k★) — Glumpy (1.2k★) — Vispy (3.2k★) — Freetype-gl (1.6k★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (2.3k★)
January 16, 2024 Welcome to Ann Collins who is visiting us for 6 months as an invited professor.
January 3, 2024 I’ve been selected to join the OFIS advisory board
December 21, 2023 Inria closed door where I’ll present experimental research at Inria and participate in the round table on generative AI.
December 18, 2023 First session of #IA Logs, a writing workshop for scientist organized by Silene Edgar and me.
December 11, 2023 Presiding PhD defense of Rafael Bergoin at Cergy University.
December 7 & 8, 2023 Teaching advanced Scientific Python at CNRS
December 1, 2023 Cannot attend PhD defene of Aimen Zerroug in Toulouse since Fjola is defending at the same time.
December 1, 2023 Fjola Hyseni will defend her PhD thesis on timing in songbirds.
Novembre 29, 2023 I’ll chair the reproducibility session during the International workshop “Software, Pillar of Open Science that I helped to co-organize.
November 25, 2023 The AI for teachers MOOC is officiallly open. I contributed a bit on the AI history strip.
Novembre 23, 2023 I’ll give a 2 days Python beginner course at CNRS (Bordeaux).
Novembre 21, 2023 Oral presentation for the data analysis course, part of the Bordeaux Neurocampus Gradudate program.
Novembre 21, 2023 Meetings students from ENS Lyon.
Novembre 18, 2023 TEDx Quartier Latin at the Institut National des Jeunes Sourds de Paris.
Novembre 15, 2023 HackATech starts à La Faïencerie (Bordeaux) with Vispy listed as a potential technology to be used.
October 26, 2023 En route for Nancy (France) to give an invited workshop on scientific visualization using Matplotlib.
October 24, 2023 Steeting committee meeting for the Hyperhum@in project
October 23, 2023 Kick-off meeting for the observatory on surveillance tools in democracy
October 16-20, 2023 1st Open Science Workshop will be held at University of Bordeaux, I’ll give talks about open science, reproducibility, code design and teach during workshops on version control and public outreach.
October 9, 2023 Keynote talk on digital typography at Huawei Technical Summit in Helsinki
September 27, 2023 As a laureate, I’ve been invited to participate to the FNSO workshop in Paris. Quite an intersting day.
September 23, 2023 The third edition of the Hypermondes festival will be held on September 23 & 24, 2023. This year the them is “Monsters”.
September 22, 2023 I’ve invited Audrey Dussutour to give a talk at the Neurocampus.
September 18, 2023 I’ve started training for an upcoming TEDx talk (Quartier Latin).
September 7, 2023 Second year for the new course of data analysis in the neuroscience master. We still have a lot of interested students.
September 7, 2023 Attending the ENRIO Conference where I’ll present a poster on “Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud & Misconduct”
August 30, 2023 T.Chambon will defend his PhD thesis for which I serve as a reviewer.
August 18, 2023 Vispy sprint at Euroscipy. We’ve been working on numpy-glm.
August 15, 2023 Heading to Basel for Euroscipy 2023 where I’ll present the Graphic Server Protocol
July 11, 2023 Our communication with C.Rossant on the Graphic Server Protocol has been accepted at Euroscipy 2023
July 8, 2023 I’ll animate a discussion at the 2023 Robocup in association with Hypermondes. We’ll explore robots from science fiction with N.Vas Deyres, O.Ly, L.Queyssi, F.Carré and M.Vulliez.
July 5, 2023 I’ll a talk on Open Science at the Hacking Cognition school.
July 4, 2023 I’ve been invited by the European College of Sport Science to give a master class on data visualization
June 29, 2023 I’ll give a talk at Labri for the Sage group about the design of scientific visualization.
June 26, 2023 Our paper A dynamical computational model of theta generation in hippocampal circuits to study theta-gamma oscillations during neurostimulation is out at eLife.
June 26, 2023 Interview with Michelle Barker (Knowledge Exchange) about scaling up reproducibility practices.
June 22, 2023 I’ll introduce the French Network for Reproducible Research at the SOFT Days in Bordeaux.
June 22, 2023 I’ll give a talk about the aesthetic of notebooks at the Notebook webinaire #4
June 16, 2023 Victor Leroy will present our work on the automatic quantification of normal & pathological behavior in mice at the IBAGS XIV conference
June 14, 2023 I’ll talk on the design of scientific visualization at the colloquium of the Mathematics Institute of the University of Potsdam. In the morning, I’ll give a talk about computational reproducibility.
June 8, 2023 Interview with Jean Francois Mondot for “Le Monde” newspaper about AI and mind uploading.
June 6, 2023 I’ll introduce the French Network for Reproducible Research at the SOFT Days in Bordeaux.
June 5, 2023 Anthony Strock, Trang-Anh Nghiem & Vinod Menon (Stanford) are visiting us.
June 2, 2023 nano-modeline 1.0 is out (now with buttons).
June 2, 2023 Hack1robo starts tonight. I’ll present a project around decision making.
May 31, 2023 SBDM conference (Paris) where Naomi Chaix and Snigdha Dagar will present their work.
May 25, 2023 Kick-off meeting at the MSH Bordeaux for our Hyperhum@n project. Exploring the notion of model in Science.
May 16, 2023 Second edition of Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire in Nancy.
May 12, 2023 Second (online) meeting of the French Reproducibility Network for organizing our future.
April 25, 2023 Joined the ICANN 2023 Program Committee.
April 24, 2023 I’m visitin University of Lancaster to give a talk on reproducibility and to have a repro hack session with students.
April 21, 2023 Snigdha Dagar will defend he PhD thesis on cognitive control.
April 18, 2023 Just released nano-dialog providing Emacs with native dialogs.
April 18, 2023 Participating in the preselection Committee for Professor position at CY university.
April 4, 2023 The Hyperhum@in poject has been accepted by MSH Bordeaux Montaigne.
March 27, 2023 Our preprint A dynamical computational model of theta generation in hippocampal circuits to study theta-gamma oscillations during neurostimulation is on review at eLife.
March 27, 2023 Welcome to Gautham Venugopal who will be in Birdeaux for a three months internship, working on decision making under time pressure.
March 20, 2023 Third Causer’IES to talk about authors publishing rights
March 8, 2023 Recherche Reproductible: état des lieux co-organized by myself, S.Cohen-Boulakia, F.Lemoine & A.Legrand at Institut Pasteur.
February 24, 2023 Program for the Hypermondes festival #3 is almost done. Topic for 2023 is “Monsters”.
February 20, 2023 We organized ou second Causer’IES o talk about H-index and impact factor.
February 9, 2023 Attending the PhD defense of M.Ju at Cergy university for which I served as a reviewer.
January 30, 2023 First meeting between Napari and Vispy to discuss the compatibility of the Vispy 2.0 API.
January 23, 2023 Visiting our colleagues in Hyderabad (India) in the framework of the Saraswati associated team.
January 2, 2023 Welcome to Gautham Venugopal who will start a 6 months internship on decision making under time pressure.
December 21, 2022 Github update: 6.6k followers — Scientific Visualization book (8.6k ★) — From Python to Numpy (1.9k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (6.7k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (9.5k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.6k ★) — Glumpy (1.1k ★) — Vispy (3.0k ★) — Freetype-gl (1.5k ★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (1.9k★)
December 16, 2022 The program for “Recherche Reproductible: état des lieux” is online
December 12, 2022 Remy Sankar, co-supervised by me and Arthur Leblois is defending her PhD about the dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds.
December 9, 2022 I’m organizing a round-table at Inria Bordeaux to talk about “Why AI is so badass (in books, movies and games)?” with Natacha Vas-Deyres, Fabrice Carré, Laurent Queyssi and Nicolas Roussel.
December 7, 2022 I’ll be at Centrale Lille to give an invited talk on reproducibility.
November 30, 2022 Fourth edition of the Psyphine days to talk about our interaction with machines.
November 20 2022 Defense day for our neuroscience master students.
November 17 2022 Long day of review for Swiss Universities Open Science call.
November 7, 2022 I’ll give a talk to Inria Rennes team leaders about reproducible science (one bit at a time).
November 3-4, 2022 I’ll give a Python beginner course at URFIST Bordeaux.
October 31, 2022 Start of the coding week for our neuroscience master students.
October 24-25, 2022 Team green days in Lacanau.
October 19, 2022 I’ll talk about open science at the first editon of GT8 school
October 17, 2022 Plenary meeting of the software branch of the open science committee.
October 3, 2022 We had youjr first CauseeIES & Coffee (Season #1, Episode #1) to talk about scientific edition and information. Today, we’ll explore this question “Do I really need to pay 9500 euros to publish in Nature?”
September 23-24, 2022 Hypermondes festival!!!
September 15, 2022 We got the best paper award at ICDL 2022 for Dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds
September 2, 2022 Just released sideframe for GNU Emacs.
September 1, 2022 The program for the Hypermondes festival is online.
July 15, 2022 Joined the International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing program committee.
July 8, 2022 Victor Leroy defended his internship , co-supervised by myself and Nicolas Mallet.
July 7, 2022 Short interview by Yuvrak Singh about my work on GNU Emacs.
July 6, 2022 I’ll talk about Open Science for the Hacking Cognition Summer school in Paris.
June 30, 2022 Our paper Create Efficient and Complex Reservoir Computing Architectures with ReservoirPy has been accepted to SAB 2022.
June 22, 2022 The final program for the Hypermondes festival (theme “Utopia”) is finished and will be soon be online.
June 15, 2022 Our paper Dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds has been accepted at ICDL 2022
June 14, 2022 Psyphine green days, celebrating ten year of multidisciplinary research between computer science, neuroscience, psychology, linguistic, philosophy and ahtropology.
June 1, 2022 Our paper From concrete to abstract rules : A computational sketch has been accepted at Brain Informatics 2022.
May 18, 2022 I’ll give a talk about dataviz at INSEP.
May 18, 2022 Attenting the Swiss universities Open Science workshop for preparing expertise.
May 10, 2022 Two days training in economic intelligence at IHEDN (Paris) for the French Open Science Committee.
May 4, 2022 Attending the PhD thesis of Nathalie Azevedo as a reviewer.
April 29, 2022 First meeting for the machine learning aspect of GPR 2030
April 13, 2022 First meeting of the Free Research Software college for the Commitee for Open Science. I’ll co-supervise the working group on international aspects.
April 7, 2022 New preprint available From implicit learning to explicit representations
April 3, 2022 New preprint available Dual pathway architecture underlying vocal learning in songbirds
March 27, 2022 I published the Reviewer manifesto
March 18, 2022 Remya Sankar will present our work at Cosyne: Dual pathway architecture in songbirds boosts sensorimotor learning.
March 17, 2022 Fjola Hyseni will present our work at Cosyne: Temporal Dynamics in an Attractor Model of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus.
March 17, 2022 I’ll be present at CinéScience for commenting the documentary “Cinq nouvelles du cerveau”
February 23, 2022 Joined the International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization (WSOM+ 2022) program committee
February 14, 2022 Movie from the AI trial is online.
February 4, 2022 Joined the Cognitive Science Conference (CogSci 2022 programm committee.
January 31, 2022 Two abstracts accepted at COSYNE 2022: “Dual pathway architecture in songbirds boosts sensorimotor learning” & “Temporal Dynamics in an Attractor Model of the Songbird’s Premotor Nucleus”
January 11, 2022 I’ll vie a talk about Scientific Visualization at Open Planetary Lunch
January 8, 2022 The French Reproducibility Network in online
December 24, 2021 Github update: 4.2k followers — Scientific Visualization book (6.4k ★) — From Python to Numpy (1.7k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (5.8k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (7.7k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (2.2k ★) — Glumpy (1k ★) — Vispy (2.8k ★) — Freetype-gl (1.4k ★) - Emacs / N Λ N O (1.4k★)
December 22, 2021 I just entered the top 500 on GitHub (out of 80 million users).
December 20, 2021 I’ve released a GNU Emacs notebook-mode for orgmode.
December 10, 2021 I’ve been invited to gove a talk on AI for the conference L’intelligence artificielle dans le domaine de la santé
December 9, 2021 I’ve just released an experimental GNU Emacs notebook.
December 9, 2021 Lise Aubin’s PhD defense for which I served as reviewer.
December 7, 2021 Louis Annabi’s PhD defense for which I served as examiner.
November 29, 2021 Almost 100,000 downloads in 2 weeks for my book on scientific visualization (see hal.inria.fr/hal-03427242/). Seems to be a huge success.
November 24, 2021 Team green days (2) in Gradigan.
November 22, 2021 Our replication of A Reservoir Computing Model of Reward-Modulated Motor Learning and Automaticity is online
November 23, 2021 We got a small grant from FNSO (Fond National pour la Science Ouver) to migrate ReScience C to open journals.
November 19, 2021 I attended the Emacs conference over the week-end. Great conference with many great talks. Mine was on the design of text editors, using Emacs, of course.
November 15, 2021 My book on scientific visualization is online and you can buy a printed edition.
November 8, 2021 We organized our first R4 workshop in Bidard (Pays Basque).
October 29, 2021 Knowledge extraction from the learning of sequences in a long short term memory (LSTM) architecture has been published
October 27, 2021 Opening of the conference Drôles d’objets, Un nouvel art de faire that I’m co-organizing with the Psyphine group.
October 25, 2021 Our paper “Computational benefits of structural plasticity, illustrated in songbirds” has been accepted in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
October 14, 2021 I’ve been invited to give a talk on embodied cognition at the Journées Scientifiques.
October 12, 2021 nano-agenda.el is now on ELPA.
October 3, 2021 nano-theme.el is now on ELPA.
October 1, 2021 AI Trial (in French) to be played during the science festival.
October 1, 2021 Welcome to Naomi Chaix who will start her PhD under the co-supervision of my self and Thomas Boraud.
September 30, 2021 I’ll participate to the 8th edition of the URFIST symposium a about numerical methods and scientific practices.
September 28, 2021 svg-lib.el is now on ELPA.
September 21, 2021 Our climackathon event get rewarded by the University of Bordeaux (“Talents U”)
September 13, 2021 First meeting of the French network of international Open Science experts.
September 1, 2021 Back to the lab!
August 31, 2021 We got a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to work on Vispy 2.0!
August 22, 2021 Start of the 13th Advanced Scientific Python Programming Summer school in Bordeaux
July 15, 2021 Interview for the Data Analytics Post (in French).
July 5, 2021 Computational Neuroscience Crash Course starts.
July 2, 2021 Anthologie Hypermondes #1 Robots announced!
June 25, 2021 Working on a Matplotlib course for NumFocus Academy to be launched early September 2021.
June 18, 2021 Final dates for the hypermondes festival have been announced: Friday 1st October to Sunday 3rd October 2021.
June 16, 2021 I’ve been appointed Director of Research at Inria.
June 14, 2021 I’ve been nominated permanent expert for the Open Research Europe publishing platform (for French Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation)
June 8, 2021 Get my first vaccine shot for Sars-Cov2.
June 8, 2021 Slides for “The Art of Braincrafting” are online
June 4, 2021 I’ll give a keynote lecture at the European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) about the Art of Braincrafting.
June 2, 2021 Nice Report on my talk for Inachevé d’imprimer (in French).
May 27, 2021 I’ve been invited by Inachevé d’imprimer group to talk about my typographic perenigrations and Emacs hacking.
May 26, 2021 Our article “Randomized Self-Organizing Map” is online at Neural Computation (open access).
May 17, 2021 Just reached 3k followers on GitHub.
May 10, 2021 I’ve been invited by the “Société Informatique de France” to talk about long term reproducibility.
May 5, 2021 We (with Cyrille Rossant) will publish a department article in Computer in Science & Engineering about Datoviz and the future of Vispy.
May 2, 2021 The Bordeaux Neurocampus GitHub organization is now live and will host our computational neuroscience crash course in association with the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate School.
May 1, 2021 Our Vispy/CZI grant passed first phase. We now have 2 week to write the full proposal.
April 27, 2021 A modern and efficient mail client using Emacs and mu4e.
April 24, 2021 I got the Mars 2020 Helicopter Contributor badge on GitHub!
April 15, 2021 Application is now opened for our PhD position “Bags O’ Neurons”.
April 14, 2021 Output of the climackathon is online
April 10, 2021 Our paper (with S.Dagar and F.Alexandre) has been accepted at IJCNN with one of the best reviews I ever received.
April 8, 2021 We (with T.Boraud) got a PhD grant from the ANR AI call. We’ll work on the newt in order to define the original blueprint of the decision-making network in vertebrates.
April 7, 2021 Alexandre Zenon will defend his Habilitation on “Formalisation of cognitive resources as information gain”. I’ve reviewed the manuscript and I’m now eager to hear him.
April 1, 2021 A new preprint A Mathematical Bias authored with Cédric Brun and Thomas Boraud.
March 27, 2021 Just finished my chapter for the Robot Anthology that will be published by Les Moutons électriques in 2021.
March 17, 2021 We received the draft of our book “Que prêtons-nous aux machines” to be published by the Presse Universitaires de Nancy in 2021.
March 12-13, 2021 I’ll participate to the first climackathon of the University of Bordeaux. Our role, with F.Alexandre, will be to enlighten participants on decision making and habits.
March 11, 2021 Our correspondence “Self-Organizing Machine Architecture” has been accepted for the ERCIM News issue on brain inspired computing.
March 11, 2021 Our correspondence “Higher Cognitive Functions in Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence” has been accepted for the ERCIM News issue on brain inspired computing.
March 4, 2021 Our Randomized Self Organizing Map article has been formally accepted at Neural Computation.
March 2, 2021 Our ANR pre-proposal on the cognitive biases accross primate species has been accepted. If proposal is accepted, we’ll have a unique opportunity to study the phylogenesis of decision making.
February 25 & 26, 2021 VisPy sprint with three of the four original co-founders (including me). Lots of issue closed & pull request merged and talks about the future of Vispy.
February 12, 2021 ReScience C has its own wikipedia page.
February 2, 2021We received our very first submission to ReScience X. The journal is now officially launched!
January 26-27, 2021 HCERES Evaluation (IMN). Online.
January 20-21, 2021 HCERES Evaluation (Labri). Online.
January 18-22, 2021 I’ll give a course on data visualization at the AI for Industry workshop.
January 16, 2021 Nightly curfew in metropolitan France, from 6pm to 6am.
November 29, 2020 Just started the GNU Emacs / N Λ N O project
November 26, 2020 I’ll give a talk (online) for the Science et science-fiction, quelle histoire ! course proposed by Maison pour la Science en Aquitaine
November 25, 2020 Participation to the first workshop ont the “Co-evolution of Science and Science-Fiction” from the Origins project.
November 20, 2020 Just published Intelligence artificielle : entre science et fiction with Marie Coris and Natacha Vas-Deyres.
November 20, 2020 New preprint available Randomized Self Organizing Map
November 19, 2020 My PhD student, Anthony Strock, will defend his thesis on the modelling of working memory with reservoir computing.
November 18, 2020 Just released mu4e dashboard using org mode.
November 2, 2020 Our preprint “Stability analysis of a neural field self-organizing map” has been accepted at the Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience.
October 29, 2020 Second global lockdown in France
October 28, 2020 Welcome to Christopher Stevens, a visiting PhD who will work with me on a computational model on confirmation bias in decision making.
October 17, 2020 Just published a SVG tag minor mode for Emacs.
October 12, 2020 Github update: 2k followers — Scientific Visualization book (1.4k ★) — From Python to Numpy (1.5k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheets (2.8k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (5.8k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (1.7k ★) — Glumpy (810 ★) — Vispy (2.5k ★) — Freetype-gl (1.2k ★)
October 10, 2020 Our article Latent space exploration and functionalization of a gated working memory model using conceptors has been accepted at Cognitive Computation.
October 8, 2020 The article Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative is among the top 5 most viewed at PeerJ Computer Science.
October 1, 2020 Just realized I can endorse for cs.AI, cs.AR, cs.CY, cs.DC, cs.DL, cs.GL, cs.GR, cs.HC, cs.LG, cs.NE, cs.SE, q-bio.NC, stat.ML on arXiv.
September 26, 2020 Half a million views for Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures (2014). Kind of a classic now!
September 24, 2020 Our paper The adaptive value of probability distortion and risk-seeking in macaques’ decision-making has been accepted at the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
September 20, 2020 My first emacs package proposal (ELPA): splash-screen
September 14, 2020 I just published Get Things Done with Emacs.
September 9, 2020 Our Robust Model of Gated Working Memory article has been accepted in the journal track of ICDL 2020
September 5, 2020 My interview for “L’écho Vaporiste: c’était demain” is online (in French).
September 1, 2020 Welcome to Fjola Hyseni who will start her PhD with Arthur Leblois and me.
August 26, 2020 My Nature podcast is online: The challenge of reproducing results from ten-year-old code
August 26, 2020 Communication of the ACM about the Ten Years reproducilibity Challenge
August 24, 2020 Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? is online at Nature. A nice account of our Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge. Also on Hacker news and Slashdot
August 20, 2020 Welcome to Nikolaos Vardalakis who will start his Phd with Fabien Wagner and me.
August 20, 2020 1 hour interview for Nature podcast but the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge should last approximately 5 minutes in the final podcast…
August 13, 2020 Just published a preprint on the design of text editors based on my GNU Emacs hacking experiments.
July 24, 2020 The IA³ website is online, originated from our scientific wandering in 2018 at the Bordeaux observatory.
July 10, 2020 I’ve designed brand new cheatsheets for matplotlib, with the financial support of NumFOCUS. ~700 retweets, ~2000 likes, ~2500 stars on GitHub and ~4500 upvotes on Reddit. This was much needed.
July 9, 2020 Interview for CNET France about “racist” AI has been published.
June 12-19, 2020 Our computational neuroscience crash course will be online this year.
June 9, 2020 My Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge entry just got published. It’s a reproduction of a 32 years old program that I published when I was a teenager. Coded in Applesoft Basic on an Apple IIe.
May 27, 2020 The VisPy project that I co-funded with C.Rossant, A.Klein and L.Campagnola and now lead by David Hoese got funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
May 22, 2020 Articles (x10) and editorial from the 2019 NeurIPS Reproducibility Challenge are online.
May 18, 2020 I’m now review editor for Decision Neuroscience, shared between Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Psychology.
May 14, 2020 I’ve made a minimal but elegant theme for emacs.
May 13, 2020 Our article Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in nonhuman primates is online at Science Advances.
May 12, 2020 Joining the Bordeaux University expert group.
May 11, 2020 End of global lockdown.
May 5, 2020 New comment in Nature about the upcoming creation of ReScience X with Etienne Roesch.
May 3, 2020 24 entries sor far for the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge and a few more need extra time.
May 1, 2020 Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge deadline! Only a few hours to submit your entries.
March 29, 2020 The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge workshop is postponed sometime later in the year.
March 29, 2020 The Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge deadline has been extended to 30/04/2020.
March 28, 2020 100 Numpy exercises reached 5000 ★.
March 27, 2020 New experimental Matplotlib 3d axis
March 21, 2020 New preprint Transfer between long-term and short-term memory using Conceptors available on arXiv.
March 17, 2020 France global lockdown
March 13, 2020 Universities shutdown in France because of COVID-19.
March 5, 2020 Le 5 mars l’université et la recherche s’arrêtent.
March 4, 2020 Joining the Technical Committee of the upcoming SAB 2020 : From Animals to Animats 16, the 16th international conference on the simulation of adaptive behavior.
March 3, 2020 I’ll give a keynote at the upcoming European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS) 2020 in Glasgow (UK), a FENS event.
February 29, 2020 ReScience C will publish a special issue on the NeurIPS 2019 Reproducibility Challenge in association with Joelle Pineau and Koustuv Sinha.
February 25, 2020 I’ve been officially appointed as a scientific expert by the University of Bordeaux.
February 24, 2020 Happy to be a keynote for the upcoming NeuroDoWo 2020 in Cologne organized by German PhD students in Neurobiology under the patronage of the German Neuroscience Society.
February 21, 2020 Our article Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in non-human primates has been accepted at Science Advances.
February 19, 2020 Our book Vers une recherche reproductible, faire évoluer ses pratiques is now available at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (ISBN: 979-10-97595-04-3)
February 17, 2020 Participating to the PhD defense of Aliaa Moualla at Cergy University about a robot (Berenson) wandering in a musem while developping a sense of aesthetic.
February 6 & 7, 2020 Meeting of the Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire scientific committee in Nancy. We established the program of the conference that promises to be fun and interesting.
January 27, 2020 Official start of the Hypermondes festival. Follow us on twitter @hypermondes.
January 24, 2020 Our Saraswati associated team proposal has been accepted.
January 21, 2020 My interview for GrandLabo is online
January 20, 2020 Start of the AI4Industry workshop. 5 days of conferences, training and hackatons.
January 7, 2020 Just submitted the reproduction of my very first (non scientific) published article 32 years ago for the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge.
December 20, 2019 “Scandale à la Macropole !”, the (fake) trial of an artificial intelligence is online.
December 17, 2019 On strike and demonstrating!
December 10, 2019 On strike and demonstrating!
December 5, 2019 My former internship student Bhargav Teja Nallapu will defend his PhD Thesis: “A closed-loop framework of decision-making and learning in primate prefrontal circuits : Computational modeling and virtual experimentation”
December 3, 2019 I’ll give an invited talk(“Boostrapping Cognition”) at the NeuroDevRob : robotics, development and neurosciences conference.
November 29, 2019 I’ll participate to the national meeting of digital libraries in Bordeaux.
November 26, 2019 Attending the Robotic GDR workshop (GT8, robotic & neuroscience). Very nice talks, especially the one by Olivier Ly at the end of the day.
November 20, 2019 “Scandale à la Macropole !”, a FACTS event. I will testify at the (fake) trial of an artificial intelligence. Trial will start at 19h at the Hôtel de Région in Bordeaux.
November 18, 2019 Submission deadline is today for the conference Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire
November 13, 2019 I added a new entry for the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge with my very first published article in a (non-scientific) journal, published 31 years ago (for apple IIe).
November 5, 2019 Our article about the emergence of money under information scarcity has been accepted in Palgrave Communications (Springer Nature).
November 4, 2019 You can now sponsor me using the Github sponsorship program. From $1/month up to 100$/month (for companies).
November 2, 2019 Together with T.Boraud and C.Brun, we submitted our ERC Synergy project “BRAINCRAFT: Unraveling cognition using systemic, computational & intelligible models: from newts to non-human primates”
October 31, 2019 New preprint online: Identification of distinct pathological signatures induced by patient-derived α-synuclein structures in non-human primates
October 29, 2019 Challenge to test reproducibility of old computer code. Correspondence in Nature about the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge.
October 22, 2019 Kick-off meeting at La Rochelle for our EcoMob project funded by Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
October 21, 2019 Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI in The Conversation.
October 18, 2019 Fastest peer-review in my personal history. Six hours between submission and acceptance for a correspondence in Nature: “Putting Reproducibility to the test”.
October 17, 2019 Pourquoi votre chat est nul aux éches at pourtant plus intelligent qu’une IA (in French in The Conversation, France)
October 12, 2019 I’ll be present at the Discussion with the general public about science, fiction and AI at Cap-Sciences (17h-19h). This event is part of the AI Trial and Bordeaux Macropole.
October 11, 2019 Announcing the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge whose goal is to try to run your old code (older than 10 years). Good luck. Deadline set to 01/04/2020.
October 9, 2019 Submission of our associated team Saraswati (Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom, and learning) with our Indian partners from Hyderabad (Raju Surampudi Bapi) and Chenai (Srinivasa Shakravarty).
October 8, 2019 Science outreach day at the Montendre high-school to talk about Artificial Intelligence and do some experiment on unplugger AI.
September 23, 2019 Our article Attributing and Referencing (Research) Software: Best Practices and Outlook from Inria has been accepted to CiSE special issue on Software and Data Citations.
September 18, 2019 Github update: From Python to Numpy (1.2k ★) — Matplotlib cheat sheet (1.1k ★) — 100 Numpy exercises (4.1k ★) — Matplotlib tutorial (1.0k ★) — Glumpy (660 ★) — Vispy (2.1k ★) - Freetype-gl (1k ★)
September 2, 2019 Our paper on a robust model of working memory has been accepted in Neural Computation.
September 1, 2019 Recursive voronoi are fascinating mathematical objects. I had to try to make one using matplotlib and shapely.
August 30, 2019 Interesting meeting with P.Couillard, former Premier of Québec, to talk about AI, health & medicine.
August 16, 2019 My 2020 book project Scientific Visualization — Python & Matplotlib is online. You can support it and have access to the private repository while I write it.
August 11, 2019 I designed a matplotlib cheatsheet from figures I’ve made for the upcoming scientific viualization book.
August 3, 2019 Just released a calendar heatmap made with matplotlib (from my upcoming book on scientific visusalization)
July 30, 2019 Our paper ReScience C: A Journal for Reproducible Replications in Computational Science has been published in Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
July 23, 2019 Preparation of the Artificial Intelligence trial that will be held on November 20 2019, somewhere in Bordeaux.
July 20, 2019 Our project EcoMob with the University of La Rochelle has been accepted and funded. We’ll study and model the formation of habits in Humans with a special emphasis on the cortex and the basal ganglia.
July 7-12, 2019 En route for Oslo to attend the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology. I’ll give a talk about the difficulties in evaluating non-predictive models.
July 1-5, 2019 Start of the Computational Neuroscience Crash Course week with Arthur Leblois and in association with the Bordeaux Neuroscience Grad School.
June 24, 2019 Meeting with Etienne Coutureau’s lab. Anthony Strock will present our (robust) model of working memory.
June 21, 2019 APEIA day (Artificial Intelligence & Education) at Inria BSO. I’ll introduce some unplugged AI activities: maze building & solving and perceptrons with pen, papers and dices.
June 11, 2019 We are movie stars ! The team is shooting a short movie about our ongoing cooperation with our fellow neurobiologist colleagues.
June 7, 2019 Very much excited to visit The Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy in order to meet Jérémie Hornus from Black[Foundry].
June 6, 2019 Auditions for a MdC LRU position at centrale-supélec Metz.
June 4, 2019 Our book Vers une recherche reproductible, faire évoluer ses pratiques has been edited and is now online.
May 28, 2019 The website for the upcoming conference Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire (2020) is online at https://drolesdobjets20.sciencesconf.org/
May 25, 2019 Our preprint Attributing and Referencing (Research) Software: Best Practices and Outlook from Inria is online. Submitted to CiSE for the special issue on Software and Data Citations.
May 23, 2019 Our very first ReScience C special issue is online. Many thanks to Joelle Pineau, Koustuv Sinha and all the students that worked hard on the ICLR 2019 Reproducibility Challenge.
May 23, 2019 Many contributions from Jérémy Fix to the machine learning recipes repository.
May 22, 2019 Our brand new ReScience C website with a smoother and simpler submission and publishing process is live. Have a look at https://rescience.github.io/.
May 15, 2019 SOMA meeting at Inria Lille (following the BioComp conference in Lille). Each of us will give update on their research concerning the project.
May 13, 2019 Lab retreat in Lacanau for 2 days. Second and third year PhD students will introduce their work.
May 9, 2019 Audition and selection for the Inria National young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. One long day for auditions, one day for discussions.
May 7, 2019 Preselection for an assistant professor position in machine Learning for Central/Supélec, Metz.
May 2, 2019 Audition and selection for the Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée (SAM) young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. One day for auditions, one day for discussions.
April 28-30, 2019 We’ll present a poster on the Natural History of Skills at the iBags conference to be held in Biarritz, France from April 28 to May 2, 2019.
April 26, 2019 Third and last lesson for the theoretical part of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice signal processing.
April 24, 2019 Fabien Benureau will present our work on Transforming Code into Scientific Contribution at Scipy Japan to be held in Tokyo, 23-24 April 2019.
April 23, 2019 The 100 Numpy exercises repository reached 3,000 stars on GitHub and the open access book From Python to Numpy reached 1,000 stars.
April 19, 2019 Amazing, we did it! We wrote a complete book on reproducible science in three days. The book is now edited and will be online (open access) in a few weeks.
April 16, 2019 A brand new Mag U (University of Bordeaux) has been published where I give a short interview on brain and artificial intelligence.
April 15, 2019 I’ll participate in a book sprint organized by Sabrina Granger (URFIST) with Loïc Desquilbet, Boris Hejblum, Arnaud Legrand and Pascal Pernot. We are supposed to write a complete book on reproducible science in three days. Quite a challenge indeed.
April 14, 2019 I just published another absurd dialogue between two immortals: Immortel (dialogues) (in French).
April 12, 2019 Second lesson of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice differential equations.
April 9, 2019 Videos of our initiation to Artifical Intelligence for math teachers are now online (part 1 & part 2) thanks to Didier Roy who also organised this meeting in 2018.
April 5, 2019 First lesson of our computational neuroscience crash course for the Bordeaux Neurocampus Graduate Program. Today, we’ll review and practice basic linear algebra.
April 4, 2019 Our talk proposal with Fabien Benureau has been accepted for Scipy 2019 but none of us can attend the conference. We had to decline.
April 4, 2019 Pre-selection phase for the Inria National young graduate scientist recruiting campaign in Paris. Another long day ahead.
April 3, 2019 Joint interview with Natacha Vas-Deyres for the Bordeaux Geek Festival (BGF) whose theme, this year, is the rise of the machines.
April 2, 2019 Just published another absurd dialogue “Connecté (dialogues)” (in French) between a man and a door.
April 1, 2019 I’ll give a course on neural field and cortical plasticity at the University Côte d’Azur for the master of science in Modelling for Neurosciences and Cognitives Systems.
March 30, 2019 Just published “Autonome (dialogues)”, a short and absurd dialogue (in French) between an autonomous car and its principal user, inspired by a recent and ongoing collaboration with the blOp artistic group.
March 29, 2019 During the workshop organized by URFIST and Inria, Etienne Roesch gave a very nice talk and introduced ReScience X, a journal dedicated to the publication of experimental replications that we’ll launch this summer (hopefully). Stay tuned!
March 28, 2019 A Robust Model of Gated Working Memory, a work where we introduce a robust yet simple reservoir model of gated working memory with instantaneous updates is now online on biorXiv.
March 27, 2019 Our experimental and theoretical work on decision making with limited information has been published: A.Nioche, B.Garcia, T.Boraud, N.Rougier & S. Bourgeois-Gironde, Interaction effects between consumer information and firms’ decision rules in a duopoly: how cognitive features can impact market dynamics, Palgrave Communications (Nature), volume 5 (2019).
March 27, 2019 Pre-selection phase for the Inria Sophia-Antipolis Méditerranée (SAM) young graduate scientist recruiting campaign. Long day ahead.
March 26, 2019 My open access book “From Python to Numpy” is now runnable at educative.io who provides interactive in-browser environments that keep you engaged and test your progress as you go.
March 23, 2019 Huge success for our computational neuroscience crash course co-directed by myself and Arthur Leblois. Registrations are now closed (we already have too many people). All the material will be available online for those who could not register.
March 20, 2019 Welcome to Gabriel Gouraud who will work with me for three months on spatial distributed and adaptive computing.
March 15, 2019 En route for La Rochelle to give a 4 hours course on dataviz. We’ll use INSEE database (“mariages in 2016”) and try to achieve some nice visualization.
March 13, 2019 I’m visiting Black[Foundry] with Samuel Hornus and Adrien Tétar. We are collaborating on the design of a flawless font hardware-accelerated rendering engine, including variational fonts.
March 10, 2019 Psyphine, our multidisciplinary group (computer science, psychology, philosophy, linguistic, neuroscience, ethnology) for the theoretical and experimental study on cognition has been funded for one more year (CNRS PEPS).
March 9, 2019 I’ve coded a small and pure Python 3D renderer (100 lines with loader, z-buffer, transformation, texture & light) available at https://github.com/rougier/tiny-renderer.
March 7, 2019 In collaboration with URFIST and EDMI, I’ll give a talk on scientific integrity for Bordeaux PhD students, based on the preprint Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Fraud and Misconduct I wrote with John Timmers from Ars Technica.
March 3, 2019 Our session “Idealizations in Computational Neuroscience: Facticity, Pragmatics and the Coding Heuristics”, with Daniel Kostic and Cédric Brun, has been accepted for the biennal meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology to take place in Oslo, Norway, July 7-12, 2019.
February 28, 2019 I’ve created a small GitHub repository at https://github.com/rougier/ML-Recipes with stand-alone Python recipes for some basic machine learning algorithms. Very far from scikit-learn coverage or quality, but this might come handy for a quick experiment.
February 28, 2019 I’ll be teaching advanced scientific Python to Bordeaux PhD students (and faculty as well). Make sure to have conda installed and to know the basics of Python.
February 26, 2019 The UNESCO Paris Call I helped to review is now online at https://en.unesco.org/foss/paris-call-software-source-code. It emphasizes the importance of the Software Heritage archive to collect, preserve and share software source code.
February 21, 2019 Fourth year I’m teaching scientific Python for beginners to Bordeaux PhD students. It was sold out (actually it is free) after only a few days following the annoucement.
February 19, 2019 Our ANR grant proposal on reproducible research (Software Heritage, Inria, CBM, CASCaD, Leo, LIG and MAP5) coordinated by Konrad Hinsen has passed the first stage.
February 1, 2019 Together with Sophie Sakka and Natacha Vas-Deyres, I’ll participate to the “Conférence Décalée” during the Reboot science festival. We’ll try to answer the question whether robots will dominate us one day.
January 14, 2019 First Psyphine meeting of the year. We met at the FMSM (Fondation des Maison des Sciences de l’Homme) in Paris in order to prepare our conference to be held next year in La Rochelle.
January 7, 2019 Olivia Guest and myself will chair the track on Neuroscience and Cognitive science during the SciPy conference to be held in Austin, Texas, USA, July 10–12, 2019.
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