Computer Science Assistant

Nigel H. GoddardResearch Interests

Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science,

Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester, May 1992.

B.A., Mathematics and Engineering, Cambridge University, June 1979. Academic and Research Experience

1998-

Lecturer, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

1997-

Senior Scientific Specialist, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

1994-96

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

1992-97

Scientific Specialist, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

1990-91

Visiting Scholar, Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

1987-89

Research Staff, Hughes Artificial Intelligence Center

1987-88

Research Programmer, Computational and Neural Systems Laboratory, California

Institute of Technology

1986-87

Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester

1986

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Southern California/Information

Sciences Institute

1985-86

University Fellow, Computer Science, University of Rochester

1984-85

Research Programmer, Cognitive Studies Institute,University of Amsterdam,

Netherlands

1982-84

Systems Programmer, Phillips Telecommunications R&D Laboratory, Hilversum,

Netherlands

1981-82

Research Programmer, Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

1979-80

Lecturer, Sight & Sound Education Ltd., Manchester, UK

1976

Research Programmer, Computer Science, University of Manchester, UKAwards

University Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1985-86Exhibition, Cambridge University, 1976-77

Entrance Scholarship, Manchester Grammar School

Funded Proposals

"Center for Interactive Image Analysis", (PI) with David Willshaw

and Ian Marshall, SHEFC RDG

Program, #540k, 1998-2000 (award pending).

``Parallel Simulation of Large Scale Neuronal Models'', (PI) with William

Levy, Erik De Schutter, Terrence Sejnowski, Human Brain Program, NIMH,

$1.1M, 9/30/97-4/30/02.

``Advanced Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis'', with Jonathan Cohen

(PI), William Eddy and Doug Noll, Human Brain Program, NIDA, $440k, 9/30/97-9/29/99.

``A General Neural Simulation System for Computational Neurobiology'',

with James Bower (PI), NSF BIR Special Projects Program (renewal), $1.2M,

1997-99.

``Tracking the Human Brain'', with James L. McClelland, Bryan Rogers, Paul

Oles (Co-PIs) and others, ESI/EHR NSF, #9705491 $1.7M, 7/1/97-6/30/99,

``Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysis of Neuroimaging Datasets'',

with Jonathan Cohen (PI), William Eddy and Doug Noll, NSF BIO/BIR special

program ``Collaborative Research in Neuroscience, Computer and Mathematical

Sciences and Engineering''. #IBN-9418982, $132k, 8/15/95 - 8/15/96

``A General Neural Simulation System for Computational Neurobiology'',

with James Bower (PI) and Tom Defanti, NSF BIR Special Projects Program.

#BIR-9400878, $1.5M, 9/1/94 - 8/31/97Research Proposals Pending

"Ensemble encoding in Neural Systems", with John Miller, Charles Gray,

James L. McClelland,

Aleksander Rebane, submitted to NSF KDI/NCC.Journal Publications:

Goddard, N.H., Hood G., Cohen, J.D., Eddy, W.F., Genovese, C.R., Noll,

D.C. and Nystrom, L.E., ``Online Analysis of Functional MRI Datatsets on

Parallel Platforms'', Journal of Supercomputing, 11:3, in press.

James L. McClelland and Nigel H. Goddard, ``Considerations arising from

a complementary learning systems perspective on hippocampus and neocortex'',

Hippocampus 6(6):654-665, 1996.Other Refereed Publications:

Goddard, N.H. and Hood, G. ``Parallel Genesis for Large Scale Modeling''.

In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1997, Plenum Publishing,

NY, 1997, pp 911-917.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Incremental Model-Based Discrimination of Articulated

Movement from Motion Features'', Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion

of Non-Rigid & Articulate Objects, Austin, TX, November 1994, IEEE

Computer Society Press.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Associating What and Where Using Temporal Cues'',

In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science

Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1993.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``The Interpretation of Visual Motion: Recognizing Moving

Light Displays''. In Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual

Motion, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, DC, 1989.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representation and Recognition of Event Sequences''.

In Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School, Morgan

Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representation and Recognition of Biological Motion'',

In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science

Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1988.

Caudel, T.P., Dolan, C.P., Ebeid, N. and Goddard, N.H., ``Real-Time Issues

in Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems''. In Proceedings of the

ESD/SMI Conference on Expert Systems '88 - Solutions in Manufacturing,

April 1988, Dearborn, Michigan.Abstracts

Pattern Separation in a Computational Model of the Dentate Gyrus and CA3.

P. Johnston, J. C. Klopp, E. Halgren, N. Goddard, G. Hood, V. I. Nenov

Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1997, submitted.

LTP Dependent Stability of Input Specificity in a Computational CA3 Model.

P. Johnston, J. C. Klopp, E. Halgren, N. Goddard, G.Hood, & V. I. Nenov

Computational Neuroscience Abstracts, 1997, submitted

Goddard, N.H., McClelland, J.L., and O'Reilly, R.C., ``Invertible Encoding

in a Model of Hippocampal Memory''. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of

the Neuroscience Society, San Diego, November 12-17, 1995.

Goddard, Nigel H., Hines, M., Murphy, S., and Damianos, L., ``High Performance

Neural Simulators'', Abstracts of the Fourth Keck Symposium on Computational

Biology, Pittsburgh, October 24-25, 1993.Invited Book Chapters

Goddard, N.H., Hood G., Cohen, J.D., Eddy, W.F., Genovese, C.R., Noll,

D.C. and Nystrom, L.E., ``Functional MRI Datatsets Analyzed Online'', in

Parallel Computing for Industrial Applications, Koniges, A. (Ed), Morgan

Kaufmann, in press.

Goddard, N.H. ``Human Activity Recognition'' in Motion-Based Recognition,

Shah, M. and Jain, R. (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

Goddard, N.H. and Hood, G., "Parallel Simulation of GENESIS models" in

The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral

NEural SImulation System, Bower, J. M. and Beeman, D. (Eds.) 2nd edition,

Springer-Verlag, 1988.

Beeman, D., Bower, J.M., De Schutter, E., Efthimiadis, E.N., Goddard, N.,

and Leigh, J., ``The GENESIS Simulator-based Neuronal Database''. In Progress

in Neuroinformatics, Koslow, S. and Huerta, M. (Eds.), Lawrence Earlbaum

Associates, 1996.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Rochester Connectionist Simulation Environment'',

In Neural Network Simulation Environments, J. Skrzypek, Ed., Kluwer,

1994.

Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., Goddard, N.H., and Lynne, K., ``Computing with

Structured Connectionist Networks''. In An Introduction to Neural and

Electronic Networks, Zornetzer, S.F., Davis, J.L., and Lau, C., (Eds.),

Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.Other Invited Publications

Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., and Goddard, N.H., ``Computing with Structured

Neural Networks'', IEEE Computer Magazine, March 1988.

Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., Goddard, N.H., and Lynne, K., ``Computing with

Structured Connectionist Networks'', Communications of the ACM, February

1988 (reprinted as a book chapter as above).Technical Reports

Goddard, Nigel H., ``The Interpretation of Visual Motion: Recognizing Moving

Light Displays'', Ph.D. thesis and Technical Report 405, Computer Science

Department, University of Rochester, April 1992.

Goddard, N.H., Lynne, K., and Mintz, T., ``The Rochester Connectionist

Simulator'', Technical Report 233 (revised), Computer Science Department,

University of Rochester, March 1988.Workshops and Symposia

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Running Brain Models Remotely'', Workshop on Brain

Models on the Web, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March

29-30, 1996

Goddard, Nigel H., ``High Performance Issues for Neuronal Databases'',

Workshop on Identified Neuron Databases, National Science Foundation, Washington,

April 28-30, 1994.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Experiences with Large Structured Networks'', Workshop

on Software and Programming Issues for Connectionist Supercomputers, International

Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, April 19-20, 1993.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Vector and Parallel Techniques for Computational Neuroscience'',

Workshop on High Performance Software for Computational Neuroscience, Pittsburgh,

November 20-21, 1992.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representing and Recognizing Event Sequences'', AAAI-88

Workshop on Neural Architectures for Computer Vision, St. Paul, Minnesota,

August 1988.

Goddard, Nigel H., ``Recognizing Biological Motion'', AAAI Spring Symposium

on Biological Approaches to Computer Vision, Palo Alto, California, March

1988.Book Reviews

Goddard, Nigel H., Review of ``The Perception of Multiple Objects'', Michael

C. Mozer, 1991. In Artificial Intelligence Journal 62 (1993).

Goddard, Nigel H., Review of ``The 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School'',

Touretzky, D., Hinton G. and Sejnowski, T., (Eds.), 1989. In Artificial

Intelligence Journal 53 (1992).Affiliations

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Science Society

Neural Network Society

Society for Neuroscience

Professional Service

Society for Neuroscience, Computing Advisory Committee, Member, 1995-.

Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Computing Advisory

Committee

NSF Metacenter Advisory Board on Computational Neuroscience: Founder and

Organizer 1992-.

Workshop on High Performance Software for Computational Neuroscience, Pittsburgh,

November 20-21, 1992: Organizing Commiteee.Reviewer for:

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Courses Taught

Organizer and Lecturer, Simulations in Computational Neuroscience Training

Workshop, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 1997.

Guest lecturer, Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks, School of Computer

Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1995, 1996.

Introduction to Pascal Programming, Fall 1992, Chatham College.

Connectionist Models Seminar (assistant), Spring 1987, Univ. of Rochester.

Natural Language Processing (assistant), Fall 1986, Univ. of Rochester.

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